Stephanie Jane recenzis Incandescent Visions de Lee Hudspeth
Thoughtful poetry
4 steloj
I used to be offered lots of poetry for review, but perhaps the genre is having a quiet spell because it seemed to me as though Incandescent Visions is the first collection I have immersed myself into in ages. I was, of course, initially attracted by this book's gorgeous cover art - the work of Preston M. Smith. It's called Elements And Dreamscapes and I love it!
Once inside Incandescent Visions, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Hudspeth talks briefly about his poetry as well as offering readers the poems themselves. At the start of each chapter, he explains the themes of the works to follow and, at the very end of the book, there is also a full explanation for two of the works which I personally found particularly useful. One of them, Framework, I hadn't understood at first reading, but on returning to it with an idea …
I used to be offered lots of poetry for review, but perhaps the genre is having a quiet spell because it seemed to me as though Incandescent Visions is the first collection I have immersed myself into in ages. I was, of course, initially attracted by this book's gorgeous cover art - the work of Preston M. Smith. It's called Elements And Dreamscapes and I love it!
Once inside Incandescent Visions, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Hudspeth talks briefly about his poetry as well as offering readers the poems themselves. At the start of each chapter, he explains the themes of the works to follow and, at the very end of the book, there is also a full explanation for two of the works which I personally found particularly useful. One of them, Framework, I hadn't understood at first reading, but on returning to it with an idea of its background I had a wonderful lightbulb moment!
I think my favourite of Lee Hudspeth poems are Inspire Me Again and Wanderlust, both of which I felt strongly connected to. I also really appreciated Mom and Goodbyes which resonated, but were painful reads because I have also lost my own mother. On a lighter note, I was delighted by the haiku. I've had a love of this poetry style since reading The Peculiar Life Of A Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault and enjoyed the examples here. Incandescent Visions reminded me how important poetry is to me. Thoughtful work like Lee's enables me to think about the world in a different way to fiction or nonfiction books and I am grateful for this opportunity to experience his ideas.