Tom Fallon - American Writer

Now is the time of creation...

NOW focuses on creation now – certainly that is a cliche unless one knows that moment of creation. The creator, the poet or painter, is connected to that moment, is involved within the moment, which, as we know, is explosive in nature, in the universe. Quiet within the human mind yet explosive. In the moment a creation form is generated, different from a previously created form, presenting us with the incredible formal variety of nature, opening the infinite possibilities for created forms in the human arts. As William Carlos Williams stated: "All the ways and means we have of writing just go to prove no one has yet found the one best way."

"For me, creation is an activity where I risk my self as I move close to the source of creation – where explosion is of that creative source. The Swiss artist, Paul Klee, in his On Modern Art, defines what I mean as risk to create – which is to me a mystery – the suicide where the artists gives up his life to gain life from that frightening creative source – '...penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space – call it brain or heart of creation – activates every function; who is the artist who would not dwell there.... In the womb of nature, at the source of all creation, where the secret key to all lies guarded.' This seems a romantic notion for a modern artist to posit, but I think it is an appropriate, a true, description of the desire, the need, of the human creator's nature."

Tom Fallon

NOW – Works on Paper 1976-2006 – Poetry and Antipoetry is a ten year selection of free verse and explorations of literary form from concrete poetry, prose poetry, antipoetry to freer yet unnamed forms presenting a variety of subjects. NOW is available at the following independent bookstores: Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick; Books Etc, Portland; Sherman's Books and Stationery, Bar Harbor, Boothbay Harbor, Camden, Freeport, Northeast Harbor; Devaney Doak and Garrett , Farmington, and Village Books & Prints, Washington, Maine. Purchase a copy with the BUY NOW button below via the security of PayPal using a credit card. An unautographed copy is $13.95 plus $2.05 S&H. Autographed copies are available for $23.95 plus $2.05 S&H. Order from Amazon http://www.amazon.com Bookstores may order copies on a consignment basis with the usual discount. Libraries may purchase with the special discount.

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