| Muses Review - Book Review- Summer 2005 |
| Andrew Angus's Book Review |
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| Book Data: Title of Book: Shadows of My Soul Author: Jill A. Terry (Florida) Author's Website: www.jillterry.com Genre: Poetry. ISBN:1-59300-222-3 Publisher: Aventine Press (California) www.aventinepress.com Release Date: 2004 Book Format: Paper back Book Binding: Perfect Book Size: 5 in x 8 in Pages:153 Price: $12.95 Shipping: 4$ for first book.(3$ for second piece.) Bookstores: Muses Review Method of Payment: Credit Card or check Email: editor@musesreview.org Postmail: 2267 Woodranch Road, San Jose CA 95131, USA Awards: >1st Muses Prize - Best Poem of Year 2004 - Female - "The Season of You" (tie) >1st Manila Prize - Best Poem of Year 2004- "Ask Alice" (tie) |
Title of Poetry Book: "Shadows of My Soul" Author: Jill A. Terry Published by: www.aventinepress.com Place of publication: San Diego, California, 92101, USA Pages: 153 pp ISBN:1-59300-222-3 Price: US$ 12.95 (paperback) Book size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Format: Paperback Binding: Perfect Bind Website: www.jillterry.com Rating: 4 laurels out of 5 laurels. (4 laurels = Very Good) ----------------------------------------- Book Review by Andrew Angus Jill A. Terry's book Shadows of My Soul is an interesting poetrybook. The book contains paranormal, intimate, romantic and sensual poems. Some poems reveal the poet's philosophy or ideas about love. Some poems are about loss of love: either the man leaves or the man dies. Find out for yourself. The book is 153 pages and contains around 138 poems. Some poems are very short while many poems are one page long. The book is divided into 5 chapters - I. The One I Dream Of, II. First Love, Lost Love, III. Wisdom and Philosophy, IV. Coming Undone, V. Impressions. The unifying theme of the poetrybook is passion and romance. The opening poem "Who He Is" on p. 3 is a poem that will send shivers to your spine. You never thought a woman can write a strong passionate poem about men like this poem. The poem borders between passion and lust. Jill likes to write poems with a paranormal theme such as "Ghost Whispers" in p. 113. The poem "You Still Remain" p. 90 is also a paranormal poem about a departed male beloved whose spirit continues to visit his female beloved. "Sometimes I feel you with me Your spirit by my side Not leading me nor guiding me Just keeping me alive" The poem that most caught my attention was the poem "The Season of You" found in page 40. The "Season of You" is a well-crafted 5 stanza poem that reminded me of Beauty and the Beast. The poem "The Season of You" and ends like this: "I watch you by the fire Flames dancing in your eyes You look at me and this I see Burning desire that makes me weak "The things that now I'm thinking I'd like to do with you I understand this call of the wild Oh, to tame the beast in you- " Jill's poem "The Season of You" won a gold medal and a trophy for the 1st Muses Prize - Best Poem of Year 2004 tying with Lenore Weiss's poem "Passover 2004". Another poem that called my attention was the poem "Ask Alice" in page 60. This poem is about the girl's love for a man but her love turned into an illusion as if she fell into a wonderland. This poem reveals Jill's excellent use of the poetic technique of allusion. The poem ends like this: "How could something that felt so real Turn out to be an illusion surreal You make me wonder who you are And what it is you're thinking Down the rabbit hole searching I go Looking for Alice maybe she knows- " Jill's poem "Ask Alice" also won a trophy in the "1st Manila Prize - Best Poem of 2000-2004" tyingn with Jerry Bradford's poem "911: A Tribute". Jill writes romantic poems with such dramatic flair like the poem "Alone in the Rain" in p. 125. This poem gives us image of classic romantic movies like Breakfast at Tiffany where a dramatic rain scene happened. The poem begins like this: "Can you explain.... Why you caused me such pain Left me alone standing in the rain You said the words then walked away No time for the things I wanted to say" The poem "Time Heals all Wounds" captures the pain of loving and being left by someone we love. The poem ends like this: "For years I lay alone in the night Trying to escape the pain You left behind when you went away The pain is gone But you have not been forgotten-" Jill writes her poem with such passion as in the poem "Desires Flame" in p. 57: "I was on fire... Every time you walked in the room From the spark that exuded you" Another poem with passionate desire is "Amour" in p. 62. The lady experiences and sees changes inside and outside of her body She also starts to have feelings of passion that arise from hearing the words of a male love interest.. Some of her poems are like lyrics of a romantic songs such as the poem "Right From the Start" in p. 29.... "From the moment I saw you I felt I'd always known you Something about you seemed so familiar Something in your eyes told me You felt it too" Another poem that caught my attention is the poem "Ray of Light" in page 8 which shows Jill's excellent use of metaphor where love is compared to light and words are like fuel that sustains the light within. "Deep inside I felt the light That lit my life was growing dim With your words you reach inside And make it bright again And so now if you went away The darkness would come down And in a sea of sadness Slowly I would drown." There are so many interesting poems about passion and romance and lost love in this volume. Well, I enjoyed reading Jill's poetry book Shadows of My Soul. The book is a pouring of the soul on what is true love, passion, illusions about love, heterosexual romance, pain of loving and lost love. Jill is not afraid to reveal her mind about love, lust, passion, intimacy in poetic form. Jill is no disciple of Lesbos, the ancient Greek poetess who writes about passionate love for women because Jill writes poems about men and heterosexual relationships with so much passion. I would recommend this book to love-struck persons and people who enjoys reading intimate, romantic to sensual poems.Teens and adults might see themselves in the book. This is a poetrybook you would love to read even during fall or winter because this book might ignite or re-ignite your passions that will warm your soul.. End of review. |
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