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New England, the home of Thoreau, Emerson, cummings, calder, Olson and numerous others, it would be fertile ground for Kevin to be raised. Learning to read, write and play music at a early age, this art would open the doors to literature and metaphysics and create within him the realization that all discplines are inter-related. Discovering Sappho, Byron and e.e.cummings, the poetic flame would spark and soon, also, would draw him to the mystical traditions of the east and west. Ancient alchemical works, sufi tales and the rants of Aleister Crowley would fill the nights that weren't dedicated to Keats, Bach or Segovia. Overtime, his search for meaning in a seemingly increasing anaseptic world would lead him to accept a container with which to pour his longing into. Longing speaks in many tongues and to share this beauty, Kevin knew he must hone his poetic skills. To this end he joined the New Romantics, bringing his own poetry and his translations of an obscure late 19th French poet, Albert Samain. To paraphrase Wordsworth; all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings by a man or woman who has thought long and deeply. Truely, as Shelly has said, the Poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one. The Romantics of old revolted against an age where reason ran rampid. Today, we are in no better shape, materialism is the obsession of the times. And now it is time to reawaken society back to its debt to eternity. Email: zeena@110.net |