Outside Gravity Poems from a Personal Journey Paul Burnore Books
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Outside Gravity contains lyrical, crafted poems about loss, grief, and coming to terms with both death and life. These poems are seasoned by an international life and close observation about what really matters. In Outside Gravity, many poems grapple with the loss of a young son and the nearly crippling grief that followed. But this loss is balanced with broader reflections about death, along with a rebalancing of life containing love and the splendor of nature. Outside Gravity ends with poems about human resolve and resilience, illustrated by the mythical character of Ulysses, who often lost to the gods and fate but ultimately triumphed, and who is contemporary in his complexity and drive. Outside Gravity is internationally available as a and a trade paperback through and will be available as an Audible narrated by Joe Bowen in 2016. Outside Gravity contains a book club discussion guide which has questions not only dealing with loss and recovery but also with the literature and poetry aspects of this collection.
Outside Gravity Poems from a Personal Journey Paul Burnore Books
I'd like to introduce you to Paul Burnore's "Outside Gravity: Poems from a Personal Journey" in a show-and-tell rather than in a review, because it feels more like I'm introducing a friend than a book.There is much beautiful writing on grief, nature and love to be found in this book. Following are examples taken out of their format on the printed page and offered here as prose. My Kindle version of "Outside Gravity" does not follow the author's intended format.
My apologies for breaking phrases out of context: In offering flavors of Paul Burnore's writing, I've slighted substance.
Be forewarned: Reading this book will cause pain. Burnore's poetry evokes grief — the grief he feels at the loss of one beloved. His words parallel my own remembrance of loss and give shape to my grief.
In "Requiem" he writes: "I do not dream of you. Strange, that from The land of the dead you dominate my thoughts, but leave my dreams alone. And why not? For Your presence in my brain seizes whole my Consciousness, shutters up the windows of my Dreams .... your early death has stopped the essence and the possibility of dreams...."
In "Outside Gravity": "Your absence does not mean non-being But transformation out of human sight With no house address or place we recognize. I guess at the other dimension you live in Where lives lack matter, become waves and particles Translated into factors of light, outside gravity."
In "Old Photograph": "What good is an old photograph? It helps us remember what he looked like, some would say, so that we won't forget. It reminds us of the force of his smile and the mischievous glint in his eyes they say, and surely the confidence in his walk. I say it is a fiction and hides a thousand truths that we should know without the false and tinted counterfeit of his face. It's one moment captured out of a thousand million moments which were not the same and had no smile or glint —which was false?"
After journeys through grief, his poetry moves toward healing through nature.
From "Past Midnight on the Lake": "The orange moon is behind the trees, kneeling for morning prayers, barely above the horizon, sluggish and gauzed over by clouds oblate as if sat upon, uninterested in the silence of the earth. After awhile, sitting hushed, the lake is no longer quiet, still and dark but raucous in its wind sounds.... So that everything that is secreted by the earth and moon is sublime, with only the dip of my paddle and swish of my kayak to keep time."
And in poems like "Lighter than Air," the poetry moves toward renewal through love: "Lighter than air The currents of your smooth lips lift being, lift mind And leave this granite world behind."
I hope this will entice you to read "Outside Gravity." Perhaps these words of Rumi from the book's epigraph will help: "We become these words we say, a wailing sound moving out into the air...."
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Outside Gravity Poems from a Personal Journey Paul Burnore Books Reviews
I must admit my skepticism when I saw the title subhead Poems from a Personal Journey. One is inclined to wonder if someone else’s personal journey will have much relevance for the rest of us. As it turns out, I was very mistaken. This is in fact a rich collection of deep memories, experience, and insights rendered in language that will resonate with many of us and prompt closer examination and re-reads. The first chapter is largely focused on the author’s profound grief at the loss of a young son. Here we are exposed to many aspects of the pain of that loss and how the author has managed to cope with this - as if outside the realm of gravity. This is an experience very few of us can fully relate to, but we can all surely learn something from it as well. Keep in mind, there is much more to this work than an expression of grief. Among other topics, the poems also reflect on the simple joys of nature in all its forms; the deep and abiding love between a parent and child; the mysteries of life and death; spirituality and hope; and, in a wonderfully rendered redux of Tennyson’s Ulysses monologue, our existential dilemma. This work is replete with words and phrases that are rich in depth and meaning, the imagery is powerful, and the use of simile, symbolism, metaphor and irony (“For my friend, may the soundless trumpets of God guide those who have fallen asleep” – pg. 63) is often very effective. Are there weaknesses? Well, yes, there were times when the choice of word or an idea eluded me or left me puzzled. Of course, some poems resonated more with me than others. Is it just me, I ask? In reply, let’s take a lesson from the author himself who in the poem “The Art of Poetry” (pp. 153-154) states “There is no urgency to persuade those who cannot hear but simply to just get it right… To revisit and revise repeatedly… and then, artlike, let it go.” (my italics) So, regardless of any real or perceived imperfections on my unstudied part, I would highly recommend this book because it’s a pleasure to read, it’s full of insight and meaning, and I believe it will enrich the life of others as it did mine.
I'd like to introduce you to Paul Burnore's "Outside Gravity Poems from a Personal Journey" in a show-and-tell rather than in a review, because it feels more like I'm introducing a friend than a book.
There is much beautiful writing on grief, nature and love to be found in this book. Following are examples taken out of their format on the printed page and offered here as prose. My version of "Outside Gravity" does not follow the author's intended format.
My apologies for breaking phrases out of context In offering flavors of Paul Burnore's writing, I've slighted substance.
Be forewarned Reading this book will cause pain. Burnore's poetry evokes grief — the grief he feels at the loss of one beloved. His words parallel my own remembrance of loss and give shape to my grief.
In "Requiem" he writes "I do not dream of you. Strange, that from The land of the dead you dominate my thoughts, but leave my dreams alone. And why not? For Your presence in my brain seizes whole my Consciousness, shutters up the windows of my Dreams .... your early death has stopped the essence and the possibility of dreams...."
In "Outside Gravity" "Your absence does not mean non-being But transformation out of human sight With no house address or place we recognize. I guess at the other dimension you live in Where lives lack matter, become waves and particles Translated into factors of light, outside gravity."
In "Old Photograph" "What good is an old photograph? It helps us remember what he looked like, some would say, so that we won't forget. It reminds us of the force of his smile and the mischievous glint in his eyes they say, and surely the confidence in his walk. I say it is a fiction and hides a thousand truths that we should know without the false and tinted counterfeit of his face. It's one moment captured out of a thousand million moments which were not the same and had no smile or glint —which was false?"
After journeys through grief, his poetry moves toward healing through nature.
From "Past Midnight on the Lake" "The orange moon is behind the trees, kneeling for morning prayers, barely above the horizon, sluggish and gauzed over by clouds oblate as if sat upon, uninterested in the silence of the earth. After awhile, sitting hushed, the lake is no longer quiet, still and dark but raucous in its wind sounds.... So that everything that is secreted by the earth and moon is sublime, with only the dip of my paddle and swish of my kayak to keep time."
And in poems like "Lighter than Air," the poetry moves toward renewal through love "Lighter than air The currents of your smooth lips lift being, lift mind And leave this granite world behind."
I hope this will entice you to read "Outside Gravity." Perhaps these words of Rumi from the book's epigraph will help "We become these words we say, a wailing sound moving out into the air...."
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