Moment of Freedom Selected Poetry eBook William Cook
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Moment of Freedom Selected Poetry
realization
a never-ending vision
the horizon
perpetually receding
a being, spinning
quite alone
eyelids dissolved
that second of freedom
when the heart
skips a beat
Moment of Freedom Selected Poetry, is the first ebook collection of William Cook's dark and symbolic poetry. A chapbook sized edition (35 pages) that will leave the reader with much imagery and food for thought.
From a reader's review
"William Cook joins the Modernism School of Poetry. From Wiki "For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world." Thus William combines a writing style of prose and poetry to weave an intellectual tapestry, slipping his words in and out of subjective and objective observations, pulling and pushing the reader to envision the completed tapestry while savoring the in's and out's of the words themselves, much as we watch a movie without thinking about the camera work or actor interpretations of the screenplay. As Peter Gabriel points out in The Cinema Show regarding the use of cosmetics "Concealing to reveal."
Let's consider the "The edge of the night" from MOMENT OF FREEDOM Selected Poetry. First off, two notes the title Moment of Freedom is ironic in that the title indirectly states, a lifetime of slavery to the "moment of freedom", much as the term "a cloudless clim" from Lord Byron, must incorporate "cloud" to denote an empty sky an image to convey emptiness rather than simply using the unpoetic "empty" to state such. Second, the poem's title capitalizes the article but not the noun or prepositional phrase, combining poetic license with standard grammatical rule (namely "The", the first word in the line, must be capitalized). The intellectualizing has begun; William flaunts the world's rules by obeying them as he pleases, this, a moment of freedom.
To discuss William's deliberate misuse of grammar would be folly as it is part of the pursuit to reach the reader. Note also his use of metaphor and litotes. To say simply "a corpse" is not in his vocabulary; he metaphorically says "dinner" and the diner, death ("the dead!"). Knowledge is life, and life is accepting death "The darkness comes from knowing nothing is ours, except death...." The first slip into litotes comes from a shift into prose from the metaphor "...to wake with a sore splitting back from the cold floor in borrowed clothes and eyes..." and with the "borrowed...eyes" shifts back to poetry and metaphor. These are very aesthetic acrobatics.
Furthermore, in the line "To wake up and see the sun if not the glare from beyond" we see additional shifts with the sun at once literal and figurative (as that solar body we find upon waking and as a metaphor for the afterlife). William maintains the balance between shifts throughout the work and ultimately "time" becomes a "cannibal" eating us as we sleep and wake, with varying degrees of metaphoric intents. Thus, the final line of Part II captures this fatality of cannibalism of the self as William becomes the "I" of the poem and states the thesis with the "if", bringing together the personal and the intellectual in Part III "The science of the mind corroded the body, blinded every mile I ever burnt in this life and the next if there ever were such a thing."
A work in three parts, "The edge of the night" is representative of the poetry throughout MOMENT OF FREEDOM. Think of the book as a complete poem with each individual poem making up the whole. I do not recommend jumping around reading individual works, but rather beginning to end, as one would read James Joyce's Ulysses or William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. It is a work worthy to be mentioned with these modernist authors." - Anthony Servante.
Moment of Freedom Selected Poetry eBook William Cook
A moment is an indefinitely short space of time. How many feelings can you fit in one? This is a collection of moments all gathered together.Some relate the pain of loves lost, others the terrors of the grave; of finding gold and losing the sound of the one you hold dear. The night intrudes, with beauty and warmth; and the horizon recedes as the heart skips a beat.
In the midst of this, "the tragic farce of human comedy" is "performed on every urban stage." How do we dream while still awake? And what is the substance of that which we believe? It is a taste of sweet ambrosia, when we used to fall in love.
"Then the seasons start to swing," and we feel "the strange blind pull of existence." Of seeing, and yet, not being seen. "Life is a metaphor for death," but still the rain drops heartbeats.
These are moments to be cherished, to be sung and to be felt; of love, life and death. But most of all, they are "moments of freedom." How many feelings can you fit in one? Take a moment and find out...
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Moment of Freedom Selected Poetry eBook William Cook Reviews
I have read this author before and I found his writing very passionate in his novel but the passion that he puts into his poems is a thing of beauty. While he is able to hold on to the darkness he has within he is also able to let other emotions seep through and shine. I was captured and drawn into this book from the first poem and was not able to put it down until I read every one.
Weather you are a lover of poetry or you are looking for something a little different to break the everyday this collection is well worth the time to read
Reviewed in the Servante of Darkness Blog
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William Cook joins the Modernism School of Poetry. From Wiki "For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world." Thus William combines a writing style of prose and poetry to weave an intellectual tapestry, slipping his words in and out of subjective and objective observations, pulling and pushing the reader to envision the completed tapestry while savoring the in's and out's of the words themselves, much as we watch a movie without thinking about the camera work or actor interpretations of the screenplay. As Peter Gabriel points out in The Cinema Show regarding the use of cosmetics "Concealing to reveal."
Let's consider the "The edge of the night" from MOMENT OF FREEDOM Selected Poetry. First off, two notes the title Moment of Freedom is ironic in that the title indirectly states, a lifetime of slavery to the "moment of freedom", much as the term "a cloudless clim" from Lord Byron, must incorporate "cloud" to denote an empty sky an image to convey emptiness rather than simply using the unpoetic "empty" to state such. Second, the poem's title capitalizes the article but not the noun or prepositional phrase, combining poetic license with standard grammatical rule (namely "The", the first word in the line, must be capitalized). The intellectualizing has begun; William flaunts the world's rules by obeying them as he pleases, this, a moment of freedom.
To discuss William's deliberate misuse of grammar would be folly as it is part of the pursuit to reach the reader. Note also his use of metaphor and litotes. To say simply "a corpse" is not in his vocabulary; he metaphorically says "dinner" and the diner, death ("the dead!"). Knowledge is life, and life is accepting death "The darkness comes from knowing nothing is ours, except death...." The first slip into litotes comes from a shift into prose from the metaphor "...to wake with a sore splitting back from the cold floor in borrowed clothes and eyes..." and with the "borrowed...eyes" shifts back to poetry and metaphor. These are very aesthetic acrobatics.
Furthermore, in the line "To wake up and see the sun if not the glare from beyond" we see additional shifts with the sun at once literal and figurative (as that solar body we find upon waking and as a metaphor for the afterlife). William maintains the balance between shifts throughout the work and ultimately "time" becomes a "cannibal" eating us as we sleep and wake, with varying degrees of metaphoric intents. Thus, the final line of Part II captures this fatality of cannibalism of the self as William becomes the "I" of the poem and states the thesis with the "if", bringing together the personal and the intellectual in Part III "The science of the mind corroded the body, blinded every mile I ever burnt in this life and the next if there ever were such a thing."
A work in three parts, "The edge of the night" is representative of the poetry throughout MOMENT OF FREEDOM. Think of the book as a complete poem with each individual poem making up the whole. I do not recommend jumping around reading individual works, but rather beginning to end, as one would read James Joyce's Ulysses or William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. It is a work worthy to be mentioned with these modernist authors.
Horror poetry is not easy to do. One cannot just throw some blood and guts images together and call it horror poetry. William Cook has something to say about horror, and this selection of poetry proves it.
Whether you enjoy poetry or not, you may find yourself inspired by this particular book of poems. The poems are elegant and eloquent while revealing real darkness and troubling issues. William has done a great job in capturing the readers emotion, and empathy.
A moment is an indefinitely short space of time. How many feelings can you fit in one? This is a collection of moments all gathered together.
Some relate the pain of loves lost, others the terrors of the grave; of finding gold and losing the sound of the one you hold dear. The night intrudes, with beauty and warmth; and the horizon recedes as the heart skips a beat.
In the midst of this, "the tragic farce of human comedy" is "performed on every urban stage." How do we dream while still awake? And what is the substance of that which we believe? It is a taste of sweet ambrosia, when we used to fall in love.
"Then the seasons start to swing," and we feel "the strange blind pull of existence." Of seeing, and yet, not being seen. "Life is a metaphor for death," but still the rain drops heartbeats.
These are moments to be cherished, to be sung and to be felt; of love, life and death. But most of all, they are "moments of freedom." How many feelings can you fit in one? Take a moment and find out...
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