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Comedy Incarnate
CD
by Ward Kelley
This cd is currently available only through elecronic download. The download of the complete two and a half hours of music is not recommended for dial up customers.
High speed internet users can click on the buy buttion to be taken to the download page. The download is $14.95
There is nothing we could say better about this CD
than that which has been said in reviews by some of the best and most respected
poets around the world today; these are included below:
"I highly recommend it." -- Pasquale Capocasa,
editor of Poems Niederngasse
"Ward Kelley weaves this incredibly complex piece in the most beautifully
poetic way. Dante would nod and smile, and Robert Pinsky will
surely take
notice. I thoroughly enjoyed this grand piece, and I highly recommend
it for
its solid writing and state of the art presentation. A few more words
came to
mind when reading and listening: "Lovely!" "Excellent!"
"Unique!" "Well
Done!" "Fine Tuned!" "Well worth the price!" -- Pasquale
Capocasa, editor of
Poems Niederngasse
"It's a wonderful CD. Superb." -- Janet I. Buck
"Bravo, maestro, bravo!" -- Dr. John Horvath,
Jr.
"A masterpiece. This is a classic that's sure to find it's way into
many languages." --
Summer Breeze, editor of Moongate Internationale
“comedy incarnate is absolutely breathless. I have never read anything
remotely like this in my life.” -- Suzanne
Strickland, editor of Melting Trees Review
“comedy incarnate is a breath of fresh air.” -- William
Peck, editor of Friction
“He keeps you hungry for his words right up to the book’s shockingly
relevant ending.”
-- Jonathan Penton, editor of Unlikely Stories
“comedy incarnate is absolutely breathless. I have never read anything
remotely like this in my life. Kelley has an imagination beyond compare
and is a wonderful storyteller with captivating imagery. He writes as though
you were there, seeing not only the horrendous horrors . . . but beauty,
life and peace. He has the ability to stay sane in a place full of psychotic
moods . . . truly magnificent writing.”
-- Suzanne Strickland, editor of Melting Trees
Review
“comedy incarnate is a breath of fresh air. Ward’s poetry is intelligently
written, and a testimony to his skill as a poet. Best of all, comedy incarnate
isn’t just an exercise in listening so much as it is an interactive audio
poetry experience. My greatest regret is that there are not more poets
of Ward’s fiber producing products such as this. I genuinely enjoyed comedy
incarnate and listen to it regularly.” -- William
Peck, editor of Friction
“Ward Kelley is always a master of the language, and he’s at the top
of his form with this epic poem. With elaborate and winding imagery, he
keeps you hungry for his words right up to the book’s shockingly relevant
ending. -- Jonathan Penton, editor of
Unlikely Stories
REVIEWS
Janet I. Buck
(poet): It's a wonderful CD. Superb. In comedy incarnate, Ward Kelley
takes the reader and listener on a pilgrimage through a wilderness of souls
reviving their heritage with an emotive sense of history and crystal tenderness.
It is an "inferno" we all deserve to know, but rarely make the dive to
embrace. With "escorts" like Plath, Dickinson, and Joan of Arc, Kelley
conjures every brand of emotion in the bible of self retrieved, made vivid
by examination and catharsis. His words are like limbs of trees parted
by wind, by his own breath.
David Jackson's musical score is subtle, penetrating, and it heightens
the power of Kelley's message by respecting its tone at every move. comedy
incarnate is not commentary but issuance. Kelley takes the meat of
a soul and draws it up through a straw of song and we drink from the capable
cups of his hands. The recesses of the deep are not fire and brimstone,
never predictable, but raw emeralds in a forest that beckons us.
Dr. John Horvath, Jr.
(poet and editor of PoetryRepairShop): The poet here takes a great risk
in beginning at the end: readers must believe the dead speaker of comedy
incarnate who we meet in a restaurant; after he is wheeled out on a
gurney, we walk, observe, and fly with him in his "soulish" body. The risk
is well worth reading.
Ward Kelley presents a thorough and consistent view of the other side,
that oblivion which the "breathing ones" like ourselves ignore -- the ever-present
world we "nothe" as "nothing." The wondrous complexity of comedy incarnate
is appropriately supported by the music behind Kelley's ease of reading
and comfort with the text. Death is soothing.
comedy incarnate is Ward Kelley doing Dante's Divine Comedy
--
a descent into death and dreams, hell as what we each make it, and our
personal responsibility for the contemporary sensuality and commercialism
that destroys the soul. It is a world of fabulous images that should last
in our culture. And the guides through hell are a series of wayward women
from history who comment on our times from their vantage point in the timeless
world beyond. There are adult images here, handled with care and sensitivity.
Rather than sex for the voyeur, Kelley shows us the all-consuming passion
of the saints . . . ecstatic rather than erotic, thus all the more erotic.
Bravo, maestro, bravo!
Summer Breeze
(poet and editor of Moongate and Motherbird Press): I needed
a breather after Part One since I can only 'handle' so much beautiful,
well-articulated truth at one time . . . an aspect of this masterpiece
of work is that it helps one remember to sift their own ashes. I can say
I've done at least a dozen complete versions of ashes-sifting in my lifetime
. . . and still found comedy incarnate helpful. This is a classic
that's sure to find it's way into many languages.
Lines I had to jot down as brilliant: "mist preferred over fog," "the
child-woman radiated her acceptance," "sin against sin," that one will
hold on, "thinking themselves out of hell" this should be a new caption
for Rodin's thinker.
David Jackson's musical background helps draw the listener to full attention,
attuned to the placement of poems on a background of forest with just the
right amount of light. Kelley's reading voice is like a musical instrument
. . . I'm thinking of a giant tree where they used to get sounding boards
for pianos. This work will touch many people in many ways, all good, in
the evolution of souls.
Bio:
Ward Kelley has seen more than 600 of his poems appear in
journals world wide since he began publishing in 1996. A Pushcart Prize
nominee, Kelley's publication credits include such journals as: ACM Another
Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Sunstone, Spillway, Porcupine Literary Magazine,
Pif, 2River View, Oblique, Offcourse, Ariga, Artvilla, PoetryRepairShop,
San Francisco Salvo, Writer's Choice, Moongate, IRELingus, Potpourri and
Skylark. He has been honored as featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Physik
Garden, Poetry Life & Times, and Pyrowords.
His web site is www.wardkelley.com
This cd is currently available only through elecronic download. The download of the complete two and a half hours of music is not recommended for dial up customers.
High speed internet users can click on the buy buttion to be taken to the download page. The download is $14.95
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