Description
Poetry. "In TRILOGY: KENOSIS Jake Berry empties the Greek psyche of Latin animus to find in the Gothic dark endless images for the soul. Then those images empty of light. Then voids the light, leaving only the poem, the drowned voice shining impossibly through entropy's curse. The word surgeon performs in this operating theater the miracle of nothing. And Jesus, blood dripping from his lips, turns to Arjuna and quotes the last stanzas with, at last, the question to the answer. This blurb is just words. TRILOGY: KENOSIS is something beyond the soul of mineral, the animus of vegetable, the psyche of animal. To read these poems is to drift beyond any and all tongue noise. These poems you feel feel you."—Willie Smith
Author Bio
Jake Berry is a poet, songwriter, and visual artist. His books include TRILOGY: KENOSIS (Lavender Ink, 2018), PHANEAGRAMS (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017), SPECIES OF ABANDONED LIGHT (Pantograph Press, 1995), Blood Paradoxes/War Poems (XPressEd) and BRAMBU DREZI (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1993). He has been an active member of the global arts and literary community for more than 30 years. His poems, fiction, essays, reviews and other writings have been published widely in both print and electronic mediums. He regularly records and performs his songs solo and with the groups Bare Knuckles, Rayner Maeve, The Ascension Brothers and The Strindbergs. Cypress, his 12th solo album, was released in 2018. He lives in Florence, AL, with his wife and a wild assortment of cats.
Author City: FLORENCE, AL USA