PICO RIVERA, Calif., April 13, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new and unusual literary experience comes to poetry readers as James Kelly Evans II renders an ever-changing surrealistic scenery with his visual writing. A Warm Dissection is Evans' darkly emotional collection of metaphorical poetry and prose about his take on modern culture and society.
"The book is a dissection of modern day culture. I took everything from love, life, death and transcribed it on to paper in the form of metaphors," said Evans. Taking on the role as voyeur of life and a dark modern-day philosopher, the author takes the ugly truths from his broad experience, to create a somber mood palette that would dictate the overall theme of this compilation.
He writes using strong metaphors and images that allow his readers to feel the emotions that he explores within his poetry, which makes for a visual read and allows the reader to immerse into the emotions layered within the lines of his poetry or prose. As well, Evans employs the use of shocking and even perverse imagery, while depicting a sense of strength and determination. He portrays a disturbed, emotionally dissatisfied man who violates mannequins in the disturbing "Cauterized." Another, "Desecration Hill," describes a mind that has fallen into the deep, dark depths of hell.
"I try to write as visual as possible so that (the reader) enters into a setting where the reader can actually feel the pain and emotion in the poetry," Evans comments.
In a sense weeping for beauty and love, A Warm Dissection offers an emotionally downbeat analysis of a more violent, more unkind world set into a body of metaphors. It is the world's own dark mirror that it is too frightened to look into and so ignores, but which the author persistently dares to show.
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About the Author
James Kelly Evans II is a SoCal native who is known to visit the poisoned wells within the area. He initially was drawing at one point in his life, until it ceased to satisfy his emotional needs. He didn't start writing until after his breakdown, at which point he realized he could make a deal with paper.
A Warm Dissection * by James Kelly Evans II
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
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