Bøger af Gordon Purkis

Overdrive Hills, poetry by Gordon Purkis, follows several themes including "parts" or pieces that make up a whole, beings or entire universes.

These poems resonate with pain and grief but with an almost unbearable light shining through. The narrator 'wounds and stabs' Kafka like with his unflinching honesty and his ability to look our deeply human chaos in the eye and hold steady. These are the words of a true poet-- one who is desperate to find the place where his soul can claim citizenship while remaining open to the possibility of finding a way to be at home in this world where he 'wants to be free but without the running'. -Linda King

Seeking Creation is a long lyrical poem divided into several sections in which the poet searches for the elemental forces at work in the universe. As a companion piece to Venus' Scar, Purkis delves deeper into the subconscious, attempting to mine what treasures lie there, some understanding of the nature of life and its steady impulses.

One by Gordon Purkis speaks to the apartness we, as humans, feel, not only when we're truly alone, but in how personal and emotional distance is seemingly magnified when trying to be close to someone else.

Gordon Purkis' epic erotic poem Chasing Every Midnight explores both the allure and impermanence of connection, seeking its repeated conflagration at any and all costs.

Venus' Scar: poems by Gordon Purkis takes a quasi-mystical approach in its attempt to understand the nature of love as it relates to existence in a universe that seems playful and profound yet mocking and cold. With desires aplenty and little chance of fulfillment, Venus' Scar takes an almost surgical approach to the love lyric. Together with its companion piece Seeking Creation, Purkis tries to uncover the source of sincerity without much hope in succeeding - yet the journey and the exploration yields its own rewards.

These selected poems from 2011 by Gordon Purkis, while not specifically religious, offer insight into a year spent in contemplation and conversation with certain Powers. A different type of voice for the author emerged in a year of lower poetic productivity but hopefully produced a more mature approach. Speckled in of course is a love for words and an explorative curiosity for how they work together, language being a vehicle for unexpected discoveries. Gordon Purkis is a poet, artist, editor and publisher. Currently he works in Sales and Marketing in Atlanta, GA, volunteers as a DJ and theatre usher. His work has recently appeared online in Bewildering Stories, Lucid Rhythms and elsewhere. Another collection "Circus Fragments and Other Poems" is also available on Amazon.com. He'd love to hear from you at poet_clerk@yahoo.com

Poetry Collection of some previously published as well as unpublished works. The book is split into three chapters: 1. Circus Fragments, poems about the literal and metaphorical carnival of life 2. Playing War, poems about conflict both internal and external and 3. Thanking the Saints, about gratitude and spiritual states of being.