"Over The Years" Poems, Lyrics, Songs & Prose

"Over the Years" Poems, Lyrics, Songs and Prose presents Alexandra York's passions and eloquense in a new complilation of her work, encompassing the wide range of her visions and the variety of forms in which she has written. The 23 poems and 13 lyrics and songs (featuring pull-out sheet music!) are distilled versions of her deep sensitive thoughts. The large body of prose includes everything from short fiction, myth and a children's book to articles on art and politics (and cars!) to art exhibit catalogue essays to exerpts from beauty books and four novels. Some of the works have been published in various other venues; some make their debut here, but within these pages we witness the transition from performer to creator and from intellectual to intimate explorations. The variety of her work is fascinating but the consistency of her mind--unity within the variety-- is even more compelling, for everything she writes expresses her undying allegiance to her core values system and an adventurous tenacity to probe the burning issues of our time and place as a culture. Whether celebrating love and joy or empathizing with loss and pain, the selection of work in "Over the Years" offers beauty and well-studied thoughts as well as lighthearted fun, whimsy and entertainment, for York's themes, always contemplative and motivational, inspire readers not only to find pleasure and meaning in all forms of the written word but also to challenge the cynical concepts of the sensationalist, nihilistic, popular anti-culture in which we now live and to choose a path of individualism, integrity and pursuit of the best.