A Madness of Blue Obsidian
Jason Adam Sheets
A Madness of Blue Obsidian
Jason Adam Sheets
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In this dazzling and impressive collection, Sheets writes wonder, beauty, mystery, and awe onto what feels like a new contemporariness. Throughout the book, the poet exists as both seeker and what is sought as he examines deeply the esoteric practices that color his lens, practices such as alchemy, occultism, and Hermeticism, notably observed from a perspective of what could only be considered a dynamic poetics of being, pulsating with a linguistic tone and spirited vocabulary that serve to recall the aesthetic power of surrealism and modernism. Poems ice over and ignite in equal measure as the poet transforms image into sanctity. His declarations, often imbued with the radiant gems of a poet’s personal myth-making, are equally universal in their urgency, as when he writes:
We have
only this much
in common:
we come
then become
keepers of things.
You set fire
to a wreck of dire roses
and flicker
like an ever-burning lamp
fueled by the charm
of a deeper system.
This book renders a gift of fresh memory. It renews at every one of its sections the beginning of a mythologically charged human experience. If poetry has the force to activate a shift of consciousness, or mystical experience, then Sheets, who settled effortlessly into the mantle of modern mystic in The Hour Wasp, continues to prove with this book that he is a true poetic force.
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