Kelly = Warrior Maiden.
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House of Silhouettes used with permission from skrinda.com
Mastering the Dream
Second Story Books, Oakland, CA
“Nothing less than essential, existential questions haunt the heart and mind of this ambitious first book: What is the real? How did I get here? Only when “The entire world looks different and I will never be able to see the old world again†can the speaker of Mastering the Dream maneuver through epistle, poetry, Jewish thought, late-night TV, Plath, tattoo parlors and a fear of death to begin to answer herself. Reminding us that “Information is not knowledge,†and questioning the boundaries between everything, between fiction and nonfiction, dream and reality, past and future, science and metaphor, she sets a third term between each—poetry, ecstatic vision, present, theology—in order to suggest some preliminary answers: there’s no such thing as either/or: there’s only and & and & and.
- Brian Teare, author of The Room Where I Was Born
"Kelly meditates on the value of single letters while probing deep into the meaning of memory and those passages of light and shadow that weave consciousness. The great themes of life and death, of loss and acceptance, are bound here in the journey of a young woman with a growing mastery of language and the magic it can create."
-Neeli Cherkovski, recipient, PEN Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, author of Elegy for Bob Kaufman
Mastering the Dream is available through Small Press Distribution
www.spdbooks.org
1-800-869-7533
To read a review of Mastering the Dream on Amazon.com, go to:
www.amazon.com/review/R31N1JOU0Z2W9S
Listen to the KQED segment Silhouettes featuring work by me, MG Roberts, and Amy Reed:
www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writersblock/
Please visit www.kellylydick.com for more information on Mastering the Dream and for additional links (including an audio archive from the Moe's Books reading, Berkeley, CA, February, 2008).
(Please note that www.kellylydick.com is not in any way affiliated with myspace.com. Any and all material contained on www.kellylydick.com is subject to applicable copyright laws.)
Please also feel free to take a look at Poets House (NYC):
www.poetshouse.org
Photography:
'Do the Evolution'
