In “Love Poems for Cannibals” Raymond Keen expresses the thoughts, feelings, quandaries and wonder of an American poet very much alive to the darkness and light of the 21st century. Written for educated adolescents and adults who are interested in current cultural, social, political and literary issues, this collection of poetry blazes with the passion, pain and complexity of the world in which we live.
As the reader moves through “Love Poems for Cannibals,” he/she will find poems of war (in this case Vietnam), poems dealing with current spiritual issues (Christianity, Buddhism, spiritual doubt and the soaring-singing human spirit), dysfunctional family relationships and feelings, portraits of great figures in contemporary human history presented with candor and wit, poems that rage against the omnipresence of human hypocrisy, and poems that present American/Western civilization under a glaring light – with the single redemptive quality that this author’s truth sings.
Targeted Age Group:
Mature adolescents and Adults
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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Believe in yourself, and write. Critique of your writing comes later — after you have freely set down what is on your mind and in your heart.
Author Bio:
.”Love Poems for Cannibals” is my first volume of poetry. I am also the author of a drama, “The Private and Public Life of King Able,” which will be published later in 2013. My poetry has been published in 23 literary journals.
I was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. I was educated at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Oklahoma. I spent three years as a Navy clinical psychologist with a year in Vietnam (July 1967 – July 1968). Since that time I have worked as a school psychologist and licensed mental health counselor in the USA and overseas, until my retirement in 2006. I am a credentialed school psychologist in the states of California and Washington, and a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Washington. I live with my wife Kemme in Sahuarita, AZ. We have two grown children, Anne-Elise and Michael.
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