[announcement] Just Published...Dark Valley Observing
Aladdin Ayesh
Dark Valley Observing
Aladdin Ayesh
Dark Valley Observing is an act of observing people, things and self. It
varies from the very dark over charged feelings such as The Long Road To
Nothingness to the light hearted poems like Hello World. It also includes
the romantic almost silly poems like Smiling? to the self-contradictory
poems like Falling Asleep, Falling Awake.
Dark Valley Observing shares one thing with Aladdin's first collection Blue
Voice that is meaning is a feeling which the reader interprets. There is no
pre-set agenda or pre-coded message. Instead, it is a simple, straight and
sometimes lengthy talking of events, thoughts, reflections and imagery.
Dark Valley Observing also represents Aladdin's first attempts to experiment
with form. Aladdin uses capitalization, indentation and mid sentence breaks
to force a particular form of reading, pauses and aesthetic layout. Some of
the poems attempt to please the senses of sight and sound whilst others
attempt to shock and force the reader to think.
Dark Valley Observing expects you as a reader to take on each poem and
determine its meaning. It expects you to dress each poem with your
experience and reflect on that experience from the poem as well as
reflecting on the poem from your experience. Dark Valley Observing is a book
of poetry to be adopted by the reader.
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