Still, the Sky - Tom Pearson
ABOUT THE BOOK -
Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through
poetry and art that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates
for them a shared coming-of-age through a correspondence of written fragments,
artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. Fragmented memories, relics, and confessions
combine in a labyrinth of fever dreams and meditations which contemplate
innocence and experience, war and peace, exile and homecoming, flight and
failure, love and loss.
Excerpt:
We were grown inside nostalgia, reaching to
The hidden, judging its value by the way
In which it hid, tracing its pattern inside
Its reclusion—Silent listeners, trees bent at the waist; what
Was said in the street was heard in the grass, a
Voice threatening, I will kill you if you speak, and
I opened my throat.
–from Still, the Sky
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/POET -
Tom Pearson is an artist and poet who works in dance, theater, film, visual art, and multi-media. He is known for his original works for theater, including the long-running, off-Broadway immersive hits THEN SHE FELL and THE GRAND PARADISE and as a founder and co-artistic director of the New York City-based Third Rail Projects and Global Performance Studio.
He is the author of two books, THE SANDPIPER'S SPELL and STILL, THE SKY. More information available at his website and on social media at: tompearsonnyc.com and @tompearsonnyc.
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