Where Seas and Fables Meet: Parables, Fragments, Lines, Thought (111)

by B.W. Powe

A book that is an open door, a current, an open window, a breeze over uncut grass, a dance of morning light on an old ruined sundial, a set of waves flowing up on a strange shore. This is a book that asks why do we give in to the psychotic and invasive Structure (and its many names)? A book that mingles witticisms and provocations so that the reader may settle into his or her soul and reflect. A book that works in associations, echoes, pulses, images, returns, vibrations, thought-experiments, dreams, visions and revisions. This is a book that should have an ellipse on the front page with an image of a shock of light

Genres: Poetry

150 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2015

About the author

Professor of English at York University.

He was the program coordinator for three significant cultural symposia held at the university:
Marshall McLuhan (1997)
Pierre Trudeau (1998)
Living Literacies (2002

Reviews

[Takatsu Takatsu · Rating 5 out of 5]

B.W. Powe has always provided immense enlightenment to all those who delve into his work and find solace in his consciousness and imagination. Where Seas and Fables Meet, I believe, is perhaps his most illuminating and sings the rhythms of the esoteric universe and the soul without fear, containing the ideas that many thinkers and writers will refuse to take on. Surely, most readers may not often venture into so deep and transcendental of territories in literature but it would be wise to enter its pages. In these poetic fragments are crystallized wisdom of pure light, they reflect what's beyond. His words are not elusive or cryptic however, they take on metaphysical and divine concepts in warm conversational didactic ways; you embark on a journey with the author as your gentle and open spirit-guide. Each piece, each line, each word are carefully woven and coded to open the window of perception; they invite your mind and soul to resonate and be free. I am reminded of the encouragement of poets like Walt Whitman and Rumi. Though what Powe writes about is complex, he doesn't impose on you a sense of superiority or conceit. His sense of humour, his intimate personal voice, his wise teaching bridges the contemporary, for example, Kafkaesque concepts, social criticism, our alienation, our technological landscape, super -Nature as he reminds us, with ancient mystical and alchemical wisdoms, of angels, of Dante, and surprisingly makes it accessible and fun. He not only frees the reader of ideological conventions but also of conventional form in pursuing traditions (and invocation) of parable, aphorism, dream, and more. Perhaps it is through fragment in which we are closest to the simultaneity of the universe and the nature of our consciousness, where we can perceive the most clearly. At the end of Where Seas and Fables Meet, we finally arrive at the Garden, in the center of the cosmos and imagination, harmonious with the music of chaos, above and beyond the physical world, liberated from the things that bind us or limit our spirits, including the limitations of language and words, and B.W. Powe tells you that it all belongs to you, and you are home.

[Sira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book! it is a sort of mix of ideas, tales, inspiration, prose poems... wit and wisdom. I have really enjoyed reading it. I recommend to everyone who wants to find the stimulation of new ideas and new ways of expressing them.