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    Nature Island Verses
    Nature Island Verses
    Nature Island Verses
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    Nature Island Verses

    By Alick Lazare

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    This small volume of poetry will enchant the reader with its simple and honest portrayal of life on a small, green island in the Caribbean where life takes on the idyll of paradise. The author writes about everyday experiences of love, life and politics in a style that sometimes reverts to the conventional, though more often strongly contemporary. The poems on love are passionate; but with a purity bordering on innocence. Those on life reflect the easy and simple philosophy of a world closest to nature, unhurried and safe. The poems on politics, however, bring to life the harrowing frailties of a democracy rooted in personal relationships and the overbearing possessiveness of the populace that uplift their representatives to the heights of virtual political deities.

    The book is about love, life and politics and reflects the essential aspects of daily existence in a small island society with its joys and pathos and its emotional and spiritual struggles.

    The book is captivating in its forthrightness and the ease with which the author takes the reader through the nuance of language and expression, full of Caribbean sound and colour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 27, 2001
    ISBN9781475903799
    Nature Island Verses
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    Alick Lazare

    Alick Lazare spent many successful years as a consultant in public finance management before pursuing a long-delayed writing career. He is the author of Pharcel, a historical novel about the runaway slaves of Dominica. He has also published Carib and Other Stories and Nature Island Verses, a book of poems.

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      Nature Island Verses - Alick Lazare

      FORWARD

      It is a daring person who chooses to become a poet, for every creation is an adventure into agony and ecstasy experienced only in the natural birth of a child. The poet gives of the wholeness of his spirit. He breathes his soul into his work. Only with the strictest honesty of thought and expression can he capture truth. Words must be precise and in sympathy with the truth in the mind’s eye and with the untainted message of the soul.

      In this volume, the writer speaks with the simplicity of truth and the honesty of his convictions. In his youth, he was captivated by the romance and spirituality of poetry and delved avidly into the works of Tennyson, Pope, Blake, Milton and Shakespeare as well as the more contemporary works of Eliot and Auden. Among Caribbean poets, he has an abiding admiration for Derek Walcott and the pioneers of an earlier generation, including Aimee Cesaire, Claude McKay, Frank Collymore and others.

      The varied nature of his interest is reflected in the diverse styles used in his writings. In some of his best pieces, he has unapologetically imitated the classical forms espoused by the generation of Tennyson and Pope; but there are refreshing explorations into contemporary free verse that effectively capture mood and essence. Forming visual images through rhythm and sometimes rhyme comes naturally to him, whether in his description of his memories in Love by the Sea, his vivid recollection of the fury of Hurricane David wreaking havoc in his beloved Dominica, or through his subtle critique of historians and politicians in A Chronicle of Events Untold.

      The volume is divided into three sections—Love, Life and Politics—all of which reflect the essential aspects of daily existence. It explores the special moments of love’s agony and ecstasy which make all of life worth living, the day-to-day emotional and spiritual struggles that are a normal part of life’s encounters, and the social frustrations with what politicians and governments do or do not do to or for their people.

      Although worldly distractions and responsibilities as husband, father, senior government official and international consultant have stolen time from his creative writing, these experiences have also served to enrich his understanding of love, life and politics—the three themes chosen for this volume. Indeed, few individuals from his particular environment have been able to grasp the deeper meaning of daily events and transform them into universal truths in simple, rhythmic verse as is done here in this fascinating volume.

      Roberta Carey

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      1. Love’s Journey

      There where the rapids foam,

      Swift swirls and eddies

      Gambol in unceasing somersaults

      Between the harried rocks.

      Giant monoliths,

      Stand in timeless majesty

      Over the roiling river

      Like blunted cathedrals, worn

      By the tread of time.

      A single flower grows

      On the shadowed bank

      In untainted white among the gorse,

      Soft-petalled and limned

      In the magic dappling light

      Beneath the hard-worn trees.

      So alone and

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