Black Butterfly Dust (eBook)

Jean-Yves Solinga (Autor)

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2023
152 Seiten
Leaning Rock Press LLC (Verlag)
978-0-9998744-8-6 (ISBN)

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The necessary isolation, imposed by the pandemic during a good part of the writing of this book, presented Jean-Yves Solinga with apparently the same situation as Michel Eyquem Sieur de Montaigne, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, who had locked himself in one of his towers, away from society [away from humans] to study.... to better understand the human mind in its social settings! He "e;retired early"e; from life after a successful social and political life to work on his "e;essais"e;. He wanted to delve into human nature and its universal traits (if any). Montaigne is who came to the author's mind when his topics dealt with larger subjects: "e;What is it that we can learn that IS universal in each of us?"e; Not that we are not wonderfully different: but rather that there are nuggets of the universal in each of us... Not unlike human DNA, the basic origin of our being. Our DNA has made and still makes all of us (at least until some scientific lab comes up with alternatives)."e;Here I was... all alone for months, writing about women... men... as social animals."e;Jean-Yves uses religious artifacts and references to build antithetical contrasts with the fleshy amoral present. His poetry continues his wanderings between another two poles, two concepts: The fragile, ephemeral weight of human thought and the enormity of the stuff of the universe.This book is the result of Jean-Yves' observations, which, like Montaigne, often go from the particular to the universal.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

1.....Preface

9.....Black Butterfly Dust

12...Of Arthur Rimbaud and Jimi Hendrix 

13...Exquisite Humanism

15...Fiction Encased Into Reality

17...Hauntingly Physical Presence

19...Humans... Discovering the Universe.

20...Teenagers Into Adults

21...Like Orphans Playing in the Orphanage's Playground

23...Martian Chronicles Revisited

24...Miettes de souvenirs 

25... Souvenir-Crumbs 

26...The poet... Rereading his Poems.

27...A Greek Temple... as It's Foundation... 

35...Glorious Return to Paris

37...A Virility in Her Voice

39...Wine in the Streets

41...Weapons into Plowshares

42...Weapons Designer

43...Lifeless glance

44...Time Started...

45...Visiting daddy at work

46...Under the Skin

48,,,Unrepentant Humanist in the Entrails of an M.R.I. **

50...To that Unknown Soldier...

52...Kafka... Revisited

53...Jamestown Revisited

55...Just Some Syllables

56...Returning From the Atrocities of War

57...Noilly Prat 

58...A Nihilist's Fervent Wish

59,,,A Place That Only Exists in Poetry

60...A Lyrical Incursion into Her Sexuality

62...A Mother's Tomato-Dressing

63...Neanderthal Man in Charge

65...Of Kisses Under the Bridges of the Seine

67...Tickets Only

68...Musical Odyssey 

69...The Voices of Angels

71...The Simplicity of Happiness

71...The Shape of Clouds

73...A Cold Winter-Night

75...Artists Swallowed by their Universe

77...The Death of Some Trees

78...A Last Sumptuous Meal

79...A Pre-Deified universe

81...Magical Sandwich

82...A Virility in Her Voice

84...All the While...

85...And Humans "Constructed" the Universe

86...Artificial Dreams

88...Between "Boogie Wonderland" and Reality

89...Between Kabul and Kashmir

91..."Black-folk" cemetery

92..."Congolese Hell"

93...Like Poetry on Silk

95...Cultivating Our Gardens ** 

97..Ode to the "Septic-Pumping" Business

98..Death in Paris

102..Death in the Barnyard

103..Reincarnation 

105..French Version of  Réincarnation  

107..Duality of This Woman

108..Monica

110..Dusty Kiss

111..Armstrong's Leap

112..Green-Eyed World

114..Deconstruction of "Babar the Elephant"

115..Early Fall in Saint Émilion

116..In an Open Field of New England

117..Half-Slumber

118..Back to Cosmic Dust

119..El Maghreb

120..French Version of El Maghreb**

121..And Humans "Constructed" the Universe

122..Epiphany of a Nihilist

124..In Defense of Real Human Tears

126..Church Festival

127..Religious Sharp Shooter

129..Les funérailles d'un père.

131..A Father's Funerals

133..The Temerity of Innocence  

134..For a post-paradisiac, digital world 

135..Lo Spasimo della Vergine 

138..Of Proustian Madeleines and Camembert

137..Wisps of Her

139..Jean-Yves Solinga, Poet

144..Other Books by Jean-Yves Solinga

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Cancer • Cultural • Culture • France • Humanism • Human Thought • Isolation • lyrical prose • Nihilism • Nihilist • Poetry • Religious • Social • Social interactions • Society • surviving cancer • Surviving the pandemic • The Universe • Universal Humanity • Women • women/men • writing during the pandemic
• ISBN-10: 0-9998744-8-9 / 0999874489
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9998744-8-6 / 9780999874486