The Inner Sight

For those especially interested in literature, we offer this question - what would you have if you crossed a Shakespearean sonnet with free verse?

Answer: poetry seemingly unstructured yet rhythmic and melodic. Dr. Gilliam calls it PoeticProseTM, the only viable form in the aftermath of free verse, but a form which nonetheless should be as musical to the ear and edifying to the intellect as it should be inspiring to the soul.

"As fiction is successful by coming to life as a story unfolding within the reader's imagination, poetry is successful by coming to life as it resonates in memory, as it transforms language into a dance, through repetition, between meaning and music.

Thus, we reread a novel to relive its beauty. Whereas, we reread a poem to reveal its beauty, because only through repetition does its beauty become resonant and alive in us.

Poetry should encourage us by its very nature to be indulgent toward it, and if a poem does not inspire in us a desire to reread it again and again, it is a failure." - From Optics.

A Pulitzer Prize nominee's poetry breathes life into the art form -literally, spiritually, and most melodically.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning (Poetry, Best Books 2006 Book Awards),
Optics: The Mystical Poet's Guide to the Science of Inner Sight, by Vincent Carver Gilliam, Ph.D. transcends religion, drawing its influence from borderless spirituality.

In fact, this poetry has been compared to that of the enduring Sufi poet, Rumi.

Tapping into poetry's oral wellspring, Gilliam has recited a selection of his works, recorded on a CD which accompanies the deluxe edition of Optics. The aural dimension renders the poems melodious, especially when repeated, and transforms language into something mystical and alive.

Have you ever wondered what mystical poetry would sound and feel like if written in our language, not translated, such as that of Rumi, or of St. John of the Cross, the Spanish Christian mystic and poet, or that of Basho, the Japanese Buddhist monk?

The answer is contained in www.PoeticProse.com, and the poetry offered through it.