Prof. Michael D. Sollars fromTexas Southern University published in India with Cyberwit.net

ALLAHABAD, India - May 24, 2013 - PRLog -- Michael D. Sollars’ poetry collection Falling into Starry Night reveals that the poet is endowed with impressive depths and heights of feelings, the marvelously spontaneous power, impressive precision of style enriched with sublime thought, and an unrivalled gift of song. Sollars’ eye of an artist avoids the obsolete or worn-out words. Walter Pater aptly comments: “All art is in the long run only fineness of truth, or what we call expression, the finer accommodation of speech to that vision within.”

We find great joy and enlightenment as we read these poems full of supreme beauty and the rapture of the poet’s emotion. Carl Sandburg, one of the greatest American poets, aptly says: “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.  Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.  Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” This is quite true about Sollars as a poet.

Many poems included in Falling into Starry Night are remarkable for immortal lines and subtle phrases full of exceptional power and sublime imagination: “Eerie starry night,” “Mister Moonlight,” “Tides that labor, tides that crawl, tides that swell, and struggle still,” “green eyes aglow like new spring grass,” “When does Someday come?”, “Give me Hades, keep your hell,” “Ash raining petals,” “the sleepless sleep of saints and golden gods,” “Each writer, the author of his own death.”

Michael D. Sollars’ poetry collection Falling into Starry Night clearly proves that he is one of the most gifted poets. No doubt, Sollars is a powerful poet, and the special brilliance of his genius is present in these poems.

Falling into Starry Night (Paperback) published by Cyberwit.net is available worldwide via Amazon USA and through publisher's site. The book is also available in India at Flipkart, Uread.com, Infibeam and Ombooks.
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Michael D. Sollars is an associate professor of English and assistant dean of research in the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His many poems, short stories, and essays have been widely published and received many excellent reviews. He has written extensively on modernism and existentialism and continues to perform research in those disciplines. He is also the editor of The Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present and The Encyclopedia of Literary Characters. Prior to teaching for the past 10 years, he was a professional writer, editor, and publisher of journals. He has been guided by a simple principle: “When I ventured to look inside the caterpillar to witness its actual transformation into a butterfly, I failed. And so did the butterfly. When I dared to look into myself instead, I succeeded. And so did the butterfly.”