Myths and Artists: Poems

Wayne Allen LeVine, the soulful, romantic mountain climbing poet, brings a spectacular new compilation of lyrical observations of the human experience to life in his book “Myths and Artists: Poems”. The lavender wings of phosphorescent dragonflies from his early memories find their way into his passionate words and lift them into the present so clearly that when we read his poems, we can feel the colors and hear the flavors he so eloquently writes about. Each poem in this collection captures a perspective of life like a camera on location. Wayne directs us from all angles and perspectives, taking us on a ride through a magical world populated with characters from our imagination that somehow come to life in a symbolic orchestra of sensory pleasure. His goal is to illustrate for all of us what Joseph Campbell meant when he wrote years ago that “People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experience on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive…” These poems move easily from the first details of every day life and then pull back and paint full sized canvasses of our external reality using a luscious pallet of words providing a symbolic portrait of history and dreams. Morning coffee, a wall of stone, sacred passion, or Hawaiian honey become the vehicle of self discovery.