Ernest Dempsey’s first book of poetry Islands of Illusion explores the inside out of existence in an uncertain state of mind. It anatomizes the fullness and tenderness of the ‘inner’ scene of one’s being in moments when the outside is beclouded with unpredictability and loss of control. The book tastes of losing oneself to unaffected vision with the heart and mind replacing the eyes.
Emotion and Freedom are central to Dempsey’s verse. At times, the poetic composition attains a fiery passion with anxious optimism; and, in other moments, the viewpoint comes from a distant observer, almost stoically looking at a scene where he used to be or could be but is no more there.
The poems in Islands of Illusion are short, self-contained, and distinct, each looking life in a moment. Some of them follow a rhyme scheme; some are beautified with rhythm alone. But the message in each poem carries universal codes of existence. It is a book by and for the nonconformist, the unconventional, the unorthodox, and the out-of-the-box thinker. And yet, it is a book of verse for all who love thoughts of freedom and the value of emotion to our existence.
Title: Islands of Illusion
Author: Ernest Dempsey
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 68
Price: $15
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ISBN: 978-1-934209-
Publication Date: May, 2007
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