Controlled Hallucinations eBook John Sibley Williams
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Filled with impassioned logic and musicality, John Sibley Williams’ debut collection strives to control the uncontrollable by redefining the method of approach. In these compact poems, so edged in dark corners and the strenuous songs of beauty and identity, Williams establishes a unique world of contradictions and connections that bridge the foreign and the familiar. Moving through art and history, through apocalyptic visions and family, into and back out of the paradox of using language to express languagelessness, Controlled Hallucinations weaves universal themes and images with the basic human reality of touch, word, and what is lost in their translation.
Controlled Hallucinations eBook John Sibley Williams
This book amazed me. It was very moving, very deep, very thought provoking. I've re-read it, several times, enjoying it more each time. I highly recommend this book. It makes you happy, sad, uplifted and, amazed. I've never read much poetry, but this book makes me want to experience more!!Product details
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Controlled Hallucinations eBook John Sibley Williams Reviews
From the out set I was caught in John's world and wanted to dive deeper and deeper into what he was creating. From the most simple observations to his complex insights his language took me on journeys I have never experinced before. I was surprised to find myself breathless by so much of his work. I couldn't put this book down. I know I will come back to many times. John I thank you for changing my view of the world so profoundly. Bonnie
Controlled Hallucinations is a brilliant debut collection. These poems explore
the impossible questions of language and being, in the narrator's attempt to find
his own means of explaining the 'closed world of language'.
The poet 'reacts in words' and 'takes comfort in their distance'. He is 'marked as
a poet' and he knows only one thing...'there is no unknowing'.
Make room on your poetry shelf for this collection...and I predict that John Sibley
Williams will have to clear a whole shelf for the awards that will be coming
his way...
Linda King
A deeply engaging, deeply human collection, which succeeds intellectually and emotionally a fascinating insight into being a thinking creature in a human's shape. Highly recommended for everyone interested in investigative, compassionate poetry that is simultaneously innovative, and deeply rooted in the history of the written word.
Wonderfully spacious poems from an accomplished, generous and openhearted poet. I can tell even after a first reading that these are poems to return to, over and over again, for new illuminations.
In Short Anyone trying to stay abreast of contemporary poetry should have a copy of Controlled Hallucinations on their book shelf. I already have several favorites, but here is one of them I particularly enjoyed
Do not worry.
The knives I display in this poem
cannot even cut an overripe fruit.
When I thrash them wildly
or hold them to your throat, or mine,
when I threaten an old enemy
with a few unsharpened words
or dismember my own truths
slice by slice
just know
I only wish for the air around us to bleed.
John Sibley Williams teases the senses and tantalizes the imagination in Controlled Hallucinations. Williams poems invite the reader to read and reread the lines that paint images one may dismiss until the next one brushes up against it. Controlled Hallucinations pushes the reader into new areas of comprehension. Williams, at times, presents strings of words that stop the readier in mid-thought waiting for the hidden revelation just on the tip of the reader's consciousness. At other times, Williams offers lines that will have the reader nodding in acknowledgement of shared experience and wondering if perhaps all of life is really just one large shared controlled hallucination.
This book amazed me. It was very moving, very deep, very thought provoking. I've re-read it, several times, enjoying it more each time. I highly recommend this book. It makes you happy, sad, uplifted and, amazed. I've never read much poetry, but this book makes me want to experience more!!
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