Created Realities

"Created Realities" is Jean-Yves' ninth book of poetry to savor. In it he revisits the fundamental issue of "reality," as created by the artist from fragments of the day-to-day mundane life that we all live and exist within; from pieces of text accidentally read; from long lost memories; from casual conversations or merely witnessed while shopping for tomorrows dinner. The imaginative attenuation between things real and imagined is often microscopically thin but never broken entirely. He again explores humanity's perception of reality within an existentialist view of the absurdity of breathtaking beauty and unspeakable horror as they inhabit the same space and time. In his inimitable style of multilayered, multifaceted poetic images he bring us both nearer to uncomfortable truths in which most would not willingly venture, or to a point of passion or beauty we could not have previously envisioned.

While most writers wait for the muse to appear or reveal itself to them, to Jean-Yves every memory, event, spoken word, or visual stimulation has significance and potential, requiring an immediate response. Nothing in his stream of consciousness or, in fact, unconsciousness is irrelevant to the process of creating his poetry.