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A Louvre of Verse
Martin Foroz
A Louvre of Verse is Martin Foroz’s third collection of poems published in July 2020. The collection is structured into two books as follows.
Poems in Book One were written either in reply to or as a tribute to some of the American and English poets from the 18th to the 20th century. There are the two verse dramas titled “The Confessing Song of Mr. Head” and “The Fourth Character” in which T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Four Quartets” are fully recited by the main characters in each text respectively. “The Confessing Song” has been made into an audiovisual verse drama available on Martin’s YouTube page.
The last work in Book One, “Mystic Melody”, is versified with a look at Whitman’s “Song of Myself” on a different theme. The Prelude to the poem briefs the reader into the content of this 50-section poem. That said, the “we” and “they” in Mystic Melody remain a mystery until the pronouns’ referents are disclosed toward the middle of the poem.
Book Two presents short poems and narrative verses a few of which have been made into video poems available on Martin’s YouTube page. The themes vary from the ongoing events in the world at the time of writing- events such as wars, terrorist attacks, power/child/women abuse, and political tensions to loneliness, hope and despair, childhood sweet and bitter memories, divorce, betrayal, and the like.
Martin believes his readers’ reflective minds and invites them to participate in meaning making out of each piece rather than expose them to the mere literal sense of words. In the narrative verses, the characters are plotted in a way that the reader wonders if they are real or fictional as both features are bold and probable.
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A review of my book “A Louvre of Verse” by US Review of Books
The Confessing Song of Mr. Head
This Verse Drama is one of the longest poems in my third collection of poetry “A Louvre of Verse” recently published.
It depicts an old educated couple living in a mental house. The husband is a literature professor reading one of Eliot’s poems and his wife is a physicist. The husband narrates the story and the dialogues invite the listeners to get engaged in their life story.
Voice over by Malcolm Veitch and my wife Ellie Shahraki.
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A Louver of Verse: My third collection of poems with a look at the classics of American and British poetry.
Thanks to Barry Beckham,
Beckham Publishing House, US.
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