Bøker av Dé Avery La Monte Priest

An experiment in lyrical fiction, The Passion of Valentino Santi is the first-hand account of a material and spiritual wasteland existent in the present age. Through a mix of purple prose and stark verse that unapologetically and violently assaults the senses, a poet-scribe, Valentino Santi, chronicles the wasteland's advent, reign, and eventual demise. And he identifies correctly its cause and boldly names names. "We Didn't Feed Love - And It Went Away - And When Love Went Away The Water Went With It -," he declares. Skillfully weaving ideas from differing sources, including The Vedas, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the film Taxi Driver, The Jonestown Massacre, Joseph Campbell, the Christian Bible, and Jungian Psychology, The Passion of Valentino Santi is a gritty treatment of the wasteland motif as well as an uncompromising commentary on modern society.

Rich as Georgia clay, Salt of the Dancer: Selected Verse is a fusion of mythological motifs, classic literary themes and modern pop sensibilities. It is concerned primarily with the working class hero whose bless-ed journey, with its many trials and tribulations, is the stuff of mortal heartbreak and the envy of the Gods. Upon reading, its credo is clear: Life's sacred. Life's profane. Life's the thing!Each poem is a song of heartbreak with one objective: to drive the reader head-over-heels into a SWOON accompanied by the customary physical effects-rosy cheeks, wet palms, and weak knees."En this Life En this gorgeous irony Amid the heavyscented arpeggios Of blackbyrds & Angels wrestling En a drunken slumber Eye am not to be the river of all things Eye am not to be his little girl" -From the poem SapphoBeautiful, Sexy, and sometimes Cruel, Salt of the Dancer: Selected Verse paints an intimate portrait of the Soul's epic struggle with the powers and principalities of Love and Death. And, in doing so, unites the beauty and terror of existence, and trumpets the need for a brave new humanism, and a renewed love affair with the deeds and misdeeds of Man.