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"IMMORTAL SEEDS,is a remarkable book, a passionate weaving together of poems and paintings that in turn reveal the intimate union and spiritual path shared by two loving souls. When tragedy enters the path, the alchemy of love transports the lovers from rapture and bliss to sorrow and loss. And we must follow as the search for deeper dimensions of compassion and grace becomes the way forward."―Michael Meade
"What is 'immortal?' That which is not subject to death and decay. As Hippocrates wrote, Ars longa, vita brevis. And what is a 'seed?' Origin, root, fountainhead—come to mind. IMMORTAL SEEDS is a collection of art and poetry, of that which cannot decay and is a planting of creative eternality. Borne of a heart nurtured by true love, he love of David Campagna, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, the artist-poet has, in image and word, produced a volume that brings to mind Shakespeare's: 'So long lives this and this gives life to thee.' Or, to paraphrase: 'So long as these IMMORTAL SEEDS exist, they give life to Carolyn's beloved.'"—Stanley H. Barkan
“Carolyn Kleefeld’s
Immortal Seeds shows her as inspired and creative as ever, perhaps even more so: her combined powers of painting and poetry not only transfigure the intimate symbiosis of two human beings in the best tradition of
ut pictura poesis, but her artistic impulse also gives new form and substance to the timeless tale of ‘star-crossed lovers,’ reaching a fascinating as well as touching intensity and directness of expression that clearly goes beyond what she achieved in her earlier work. Looking and reading through her iconographic book of love and compassion, one may even sense Aldous & Laura Huxley’s spiritual legacy—the divine ground and the art of dying— and feel induced to call in the third art that strives to express the inexpressible, viz. music, as it is for instance represented in the ending of
Island: ‘Disregarded in the darkness the fact of enlightenment remained. […] and as the intruding noises died away, out came the frogs again, out came the uninterruptable insects, out came the mynah birds. ‘Karuna. Karuna.’ And a semi-tone lower, ‘Attention.’” —Prof. Dr. Bernfried Nugel, Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, University of Münster, Germany
Poetry. Art.
Author Bio
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, born in Catford, England, grew up in southern California, where she studied art and psychology at UCLA. In 1980, she moved to her cliff-side home high above the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, where she studies, writes, and paints amidst the surrounding wilderness. A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual transformation have ignited Carolyn to become an award-winning poet, author, and artist. She is the author of 21 books, a variety of which are used as inspirational texts in universities and healing centers worldwide, and are featured along with the writings of seven other acclaimed woman writers in a continuing course, "The Other Half of the Sky: Eight Woman Writers," taught at Swansea University in Wales by poet and publisher Peter Thabit Jones. Carolyn's poetry and prose have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and her first book, Climates of the Mind, was translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Her writings have been translated into more than 15 languages--Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Farsi/Persian, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish and three of her books have been published in bilingual and trilingual editions. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University exhibited a retrospective of Carolyn's paintings and drawings and published an exhibition catalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur, with art from the exhibit and a commentary by museum curator and director, Michael Zakian, PhD. Carolyn's art appears on book covers and is featured internationally in galleries, museums, private collections, and multimedia presentations. Over the past two decades, Carolyn has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. Caroline's art appears worldwide in galleries, museums, and private collections. The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contempora
Author City: USA