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2 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Why not to buy this book. May 24, 2007
The author of this book posted his own review of his book here and surprise, surprise, he gave himself four stars. I will never buy any book where the author is so egotistical that he or she is unwilling to let the book stand on its own merits. This author is so insecure that he tried to manipulate the rating system. This is not ethical and no one should patronize anyone who cheats in such a blatant and pathetic manner.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent first work from a very talented writer Mar 09, 2007
This is a phenomenal piece of literary work. It is provocative, inspired, and relentlessly entertaining. The more I read the more I wanted to explore the hidden meanings and thoughts of the author. I was highly intrigued, impressed, and equally inspired. I feel sure this is the first of many works to come from this young author.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
I highly recommend this book to everyone.! Mar 08, 2007
A Language Unconscious is a uniquely profound book of literature. It blends a storyline of love, politics and religion into passages of poetry. At times the story stirs you to pause and reflect on its meaning (hidden or otherwise). The insight, imagination and love for writing is evident with this new author. I highly recommend this book to intellectuals who have a desire to move beyond the conscious mind into the world of a not so impossible future.
5 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Now, So(u)l (Ar)is(e) Alive Feb 26, 2007
The energy has to come from somewhere (I see a world divided)
This is my book. So, take this review with a grain of salt. I decided it would be a good idea to put up a review that summarizes what the book is all about though. I give it 4 stars because I think it is a great book and am very proud of it, but I had trouble getting the first 40 pages or so to flow. So, it begins with some dissonance, but I left it that way because it creates some tension to be released in the end.
I've been writing for about 10 years putting my work in whatever literary magazines would have it. I was featured a number of times in Semantics, Clemson's lit mag and that's what really got me interested in the idea of publishing. I've never really planned on publishing a book, but about a year ago I sat down, looked at everything I had written, and thought to myself 'what if?'
I decided that if I was going to write a book of poetry I did not want to simply throw them together as a collection, but to create something that held some sort of theme to carry the individual pieces to a place they could not reach on their own.
A Language Unconscious... began under the title "Godshell". As the story and theme began to take shape I kept changing the title, for better or worse. It now seems like an albatross as I try to tell people what it's called, but I never meant for this book to be understood by a lot of people. I wrote it for myself. I've probably read it 100 times or more and I continue to see new things in it (which completely baffles my mind, since I wrote it).
I only decided to publish it because the opportunity fell directly into my lap. I was at a party and met this girl who worked at a publishing company here in my home town. I got her number and set up an account and the rest was pretty easy.
So, what is it about? It's sort of autobiographical in that I laid the foundation of its characters in myself and some of the people I've known and loved. It is the story of a young man (Sol) who wakes up one day, upset that the world is torn apart, and goes across the country looking for inspiration and trying to change the world with his words. He travels from Folly Beach, SC (the place I have been living while finishing the book) to LEAF (my first arts festival and poetry slam in Asheville, NC) to Bonnaroo (one of the most amazing places on earth) out to the desert (Burning Man). Along the way he meets his So(u)l's counterpoint (Luna) and she guides him along with a few other friends. Their conversations focus on Love, war, religion, metaphysics, and the supernatural. As they travel, the gods are being forced to write the end of man (Post Apokalyptika: A History of the Future), but Lila, Sol's muse, does not want to let them die. She relinquishes her status as a god to come down to earth and help them to complete their mission and give birth to Love.
As I said, it is a collection of things I've written over the past few years. As a poet I see myself as someone who is reactionary to the state of the world. Seeing as how we are living in a war-torn place it has a lot to do with the roots of the evil that has brought war upon us. Specifically, I see a lot of the problem rooted in our own leadership and in religious fundamentalism. I am not a religious person, but I am very spiritual and I can see the value and potential that are present in the idea of a human spirit. The idea that religion, the belief in something from another plane, could be the end of our civilization is really frightening.
I somehow got the idea that if I wrote this amazing book that changed the way people feel about their beliefs and created an environment of acceptance and understanding rather than intolerance, that maybe the world would save itself. Of course if we've come so far in the wrong direction it's hard to believe that one little book will change anything, but someone had to try, and I figure, why not me? The energy has to come from somewhere...
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