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    Home - and a Journey to the USA
    Home - and a Journey to the USA
    Home - and a Journey to the USA
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    Home - and a Journey to the USA

    By David Stuart Ryan

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    Award winning poet, David Stuart Ryan, explores the impact of a return to home after a round the world trip which has lasted some years.

    The impact of half forgotten places and people comes across in new and revealing ways as he explores what they still mean.

    But the lure of travel calls again. There is a whole section of the poetry which looks at America as he journeys there for a visit that takes in a long trip along the ocean highway of the eastern seaboard.

    The range of his travels from Toronto to South Carolina enables him to capture the very essence of the American scene he journeys through and records in poem and picture.

    After this contact with the American experience the poet returns to London England to continue his exploration of roots, heritage, memory and how all this has formed the present.

    The benefits of looking both inside and outside the culture produce insights, discoveries, a greater degree of understanding of the truth of our lives.

    Once again David Stuart Ryan relies as much on his illustrations as on his poetry in order to penetrate through to the very core of an experience.

    For this is how we perceive our lives, we take in all available sources of information and then combine them in our brains in order to produce a picture, an approximation of reality. What precisely is this reality?

    The poems search back in time, to childhood, to history, to remembered fragments, snippets and glimpses from both the past and present.

    Only by patiently reconstructing these early traces of our lives can we hope to establish the meaning, the direction and purpose of them

    As we reach the conclusion of this journey of discovery, the family history looms large in the poems. Old Victorian progenitors sit proudly on the page, they traveled further and faster than even our own civilization. 'Home - and a journey to the USA' concludes with a paean to the breaking dawn down the home street as the rain fructifies and multiplies the life in the patient sturdy trees.

    The poems in this volume are all accompanied by David Stuart Ryan's original illustrations in full color, helping to create a whole experience where words and pictures reinforce and round out each other.

    The poetic experience you receive is unforgettable in its deep seated images that call and lure with their hints of another world alongside the everyday. This is poetry at its finest reinforced by unforgettable original images in full glorious color.

    It is an art lover's book just as much as a poetry lover's book. Book collectors and art collectors will immediately recognize the unique character of this poetry volume, it is a work of art in itself which has been some 40 years in the making.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Stuart Ryan
    Release dateNov 18, 2013
    ISBN9781310644382
    Home - and a Journey to the USA
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    David Stuart Ryan

    Writer, traveller and astrologer. Inventor of a new astrological interpretation program. The writing came first, you can see the titles at http://www.kozmikhoroscopes.com/kozmik.htm Around the eclipse of March 1968 I turned down a job writing ads for KLM airline and went travelling overland to India. (Didn't everyone?) Felt a little smug about that until I met a girl on the beach in Goa who had turned down a job writing for PanAm to head off to Formentera and then India. (beat that Ryan!). Did visit an astrologer within 5 days of arriving in an incredibly hot India ( the temperature was hitting over 120F (50C) and even the Indians were dying) who blew me away with his analysis. Even getting that I was an advertising copywriter. So now many moons later I have a computer program that combines both East and West astrology to give some unique, mind blowing readings. See for yourself at http://www.kozmikhoroscopes.com

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