In Praise Of Soriano
Once again, the immensely gifted Felino A. Soriano, has given us a volume of groundbreaking verse. In harmony with one of his most inspirational mediums, modern jazz, poem after poem infuses new levels of creative beauty and depth; creating an artistic fusion which elevates the spirit in brilliant ekphrastic cadence.
In Soriano’s latest work, In Praise of Absolute Interpretation, the poet celebrates the experience of allowing one’s self to respond to music viscerally, giving the mind the autonomy to instead tether to the unconscious over the intellectual, to feel music’s more inner motions. He both honors the work and produces inspired words- images coaxed- the mind urging text from this more earnest and primal terrain. He shares what the various pieces inspire on a level beyond what might be called our intentional perceptions, subjective and layered with preconceptions.
Soriano’s work brings to mind the experience of musical immersion and the deconstruction of perception in order to make way for the intuitive, and from there build the weave of his jazz-inspired poetics, the raw rendered beautiful.
-Lynn Alexander, co-editor Full of Crow