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Then page by page of intriguing titles that entice you to read - "Search for the Meaning of Life", "Souls, Spirits, Ghosts: An Evolutionary Survey", or how about "Darkness: Mental Block and Outer Blackness"? This page stopped me in my tracks with its
alluring title and somewhat menacing but beautifully executed drawing. I had to read the words that were the sandwich filling between the two. I particularly enjoyed the last two lines.
He became the first to apply electrolysis
And obtain oxygen from the primordial waters.
A following slender section called "Conclusions" has just eleven numbered, often tiny poems of only four or five lines; each one of them full of charm or charged with
provocative ideas. Consider…
In creation, a creator becomes a part
Of his deed - it's a mutual process.
God created man, man created God
In his image and likeness.
The last major section of the book is, as the title suggests, 'about poetry', its ambiguous role and sophisticated way of development, not always appreciated by editors and
readers. "Uselessness of Poetry" was a title to stop me dead and make me read on, as did "Noah's Ark And The Equal Opportunity", but it was four lines from "God and Gardeners" that I particularly enjoyed…
In his garden there lived both an angel and a snake.
God had chosen the diversity
When He was relatively young,
And always preserved it for the world's sake.
This book is full of fascinating and thought provoking ideas as well as beautifully crafted verse. It continues in this vein right to the end with a final section that is twenty pages entitled "A Dialogue That Took Place Somewhere And Still Continues". It seems to be a conversation between the author and her professor, but as V.Ulea says at the
outset (having set the scene of a desk, two chairs and a purring computer), "that's all you need to picture because everything else is a dialogue that lasts forever." The
questions asked and the theories proposed in these pages make it a thoroughly
worthwhile read. The dialogue pulls together and extends the ideas (particularly about God as indeterministic and continually developing) offered to the readers in an
excellent, well-balanced collection of poems. Wholeheartedly recommended, "About Angels, About God, About Poetry" can be obtained from Livingston Press.
Graham Burchell
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