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What i liked about this book is that you matched the mood and intensity of the photo you chose with the poems themselves.

Movie editors do this all the time. Movie makers take many takes and then send them all to the editor of the movie who is the real creator of any movie.

The movie editor then takes say a scene where a woman is telling an emotion secret and he picks together the shots where the light or shadows on the woman's face (as she tells the secret) match the terrible or sad WORDS that the woman is saying.

The editor picks just the "right" picks of the actress with the right shadows and just the "right" shot of her trembling lip (or a good tear) all to precisely match the intensity of the words of the script.

A good editor can make a bad movie nearly good or at least interesting enough to watch just by the skill of matching the emotions of the pictures to the intensity of the words of the script.

And what you did here is exactly the skill that movie editors use; because you don't just need a good visual eye to do that job--you need some poetic sense to mate words and pictures.

If you don't end up in the movie business one day;
you could actually have invented a whole new form of poetry where every poet in america is scouring the internet to pic photos to match the mood of their poetic works.

The japanese have their haiku, the french have the quatrain, and America has little emily's concise whittled poems and whitman's flowing verses--but it would be really a unique new poetic style if I could walk into a poetry store and pick out a poem book where every poet on the shelf had a picture to amp up the power of their poem. A new art-form marriage.

A whole new form for a whole new generation; and you just did it probably without meaning to--and you did it with the skill of a skilled movie editor.

So, woot woot to you.

i love it

Strong.. Potent..

I just loved its energy, rhythm, honesty, Denis! My two favorites were What Does It Mean and The Reason. I didn't expect Mother at the end of The Reason. Lovely!

Is that what Woot means, Denis? How now? I just love that word! I'm making it my word of the day! :))

thanks.

Hooray! A new book! Well done Nisambaze. I enjoyed reading this.