Illuminated Verses

by Ricardo Scipio, Ricardo Scipio (Photographer)

With fire, verve, and intensity, George Elliott Clarke gives readers a new work in which to immerse themselves - to feel illuminated by the cascading words and sensual experience of poetry.

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

Reviews

[karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

WOOHOO GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sc...

if you like poetry, but feel it should have more full-frontal nudity to really make it special, this may be the book for you!

i do truly love george elliott clarke, but it's just distracting having his poems offset by naked ladies cavorting by the seaside. and i wanted to read it today while waiting in the longest post office line ever, but i felt awkward about it, because all the little old ladies were already glaring at me even though i held the door for them.

the book is only okay. it's a bunch of clarke's sexier poems, but i'd rather have more poems and fewer photographs, because it's already a slender volume, and they just take up space. and i'm not a prude, i like boobies just as much as anyone else, but these particular photographs, for me, are not particularly powerful/sexy/interesting. many are oddly lit, or out of focus or just silly (naked woman lolling in a leaf pile just makes me concerned for moist sluggy things and beetle things invading her ... privacy)the blues & jazz sequence is very good - hell, most of it is very good, he's something of a hero to me. it just seemed to me that i started reading it, and before i knew it, it was over.

and here i am, reading it for the articles... sucker.

come to my blog!

[Three O'Clock Press]

With fire, verve, and intensity, George Elliott Clarke gives readers a new work in which to immerse themselves - to feel illuminated by the cascading words and sensual experience of poetry.