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Vignettes of Forces: poems

by Lucien Zell
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781962847483
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: DOS Madres Press
  • Publisher Imprint: DOS Madres Press
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  • Pages: 116
  • Original Price: USD 22.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 164 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss

What if emotions, ideas, and invisible energies had lives of their own? What if Life were a single mother, Justice a weary boxer, God an alcoholic womanizer, and Grief the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore? In Vignettes of Forces, acclaimed Prague-based American poet Lucien Zell invites readers into a surreal, tender, and fiercely imaginative universe where the unseen is given voice-and word becomes flesh.

The project began as a classroom challenge. Zell asked his creative writing students to "compose a biography of something that doesn't have one"-a color, a mood, a state of being-and then, taking his own advice, did the same. What followed was a poetic experiment that grew into intellectual relationship, revelation, and (Zell's neologism) REVELATIONSHIP: a gallery of living archetypes, each rendered with startling empathy and humor.

Through these personified portraits, Zell explores how meaning emerges when we look at the world not as fixed, but as infinitely animated. The poems shimmer between irony and intimacy, philosophy and play, weaving mythic imagination with modern pathos. "In personifying things," Zell writes, "I depersonalized myself-shelving ego for higher matters."

Vignettes of Forces is a lyrical testament to surprise-the way art uncovers what the artist didn't know he knew. A blazing love letter to failure, a waltz with loneliness, a break-up note to mercy too sweet to bear. In these pages, poetry becomes both confession and conjuring: a reminder that nothing seen deeply, seen truly, is ever just itself.

No, reader, not even you.

Zell, Lucien: - Lucien Zell is an American-born poet, singer-songwriter, and photographer based in Prague. His work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Tikkun, and Poetry Salzburg Review. He hosts the international poetry forum Poetry Junkies, www.poetryjunkies.com, and serves as the founding director of Moving Center, www.mclf.eu, a Prague-based literary festival. A dynamic performer whose readings blend poetry, music, and improvisation, Zell has released multiple albums and poetry collections, including Tiny Kites, Fall Into Flight and Carnival of Shades. His writing, known for its spiritual lyricism and playful intelligence, bridges mysticism and modernity. In Vignettes of Forces, Zell continues his lifelong exploration of how "in a drought of tenderness / a touch is a storm."

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