Review: Magnifying the Heart through Poetical Constraints
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
Constraining passions with stylistic forms and thereby producing greater poignancy in the face of stark contrast, this venerable technique marks the artistic apex of any given civilization, a literary striving to capture the amorphous qualities of emotional depths often best expressed in themoonlight glinting ofa lonely beatle mourningpast lost greeneryHeh, that is my own poor attempt at haiku. And such is the creative impetus generated by Julien Angelov's poetical depiction of what lies within the HEART OF A GEISHA. Come and explore an exacting poetical form called the Haiku, a classical yet modernly satisfying formal exercise that shapes, expresses, and inspires that literary striving in all of us.