The Mind Dancing: And Other Stories

Tony Zurlos poetry pirouettes surprises us with twists and turns of language as unpredictable as jellied primroses and garments that loiter. Vivian Lus art arrests braking our hearts. Together these two recreate not only the idea of China but its emotional rhythms its coming and going its thinking and singing. Read these poems with pen in hand for words will leap up dressed in their finest eager for notice. Pictures will costume concepts that strut and fret across the page. This is a seeing place book appealing to eyes that inhabit the mind as well as eyes that perch on the face. Violet OValle poet and Founding Director of Pantagleize Theatre Co. Fort Worth/Arlington Texas Tony Zurlos poems reach beneath the surface of the observation of another culture in his case China where he taught at Hebei Teachers University to an understanding of shared frames of experience. His works reticence its organic shaping and clarity coheres with the poetry of classical China. At its best as in The Souls of Ghosts Zurlos work is the poem as gift - both gift of vision to the poet as well as the poets gift to the reader. Jim LaVilla-Havelin San Antonio Express-News