books by Felino Soriano
by Felino A. Soriano cover art by Duane Locke Selections from Painters' Exhalations, a series Felino began 1/9/09 writing poems in homage to contemporary works of art by international artists. Included are 14 pieces from the 512 poems Felino wrote as of 8/09. He plans to continue writing this series for the rest of the year. 40 pages, signed and numbered limited edition. Including an interview with Felino on the series by Lynn Alexander, editor Full of Crow . Felino A. Soriano, author (b. 1974, Santa Maria, He has authored 10 collections of poetry, including Apperceptions of Reinterpretations (Calliope Nerve Media, 2009), “r” (please press, 2009), Search among the Absent Found (Recycled Karma Press, 2009), Feeling Through Mirages (Shadow Archer Press, 2008) and Among the Interrogated (BlazeVOX [books]), 2008. He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, www.differentiapress.com, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. Philosophical studies collocated with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinosoriano.com. Duane Locke, cover artist, lives hermetically by ancient oak, an underground stream, and an osprey’s nest in rural US purchase with shipping: $6.95
Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm
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Praise for Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm“Possessing the terse, enigmatic beauty of those fragments left us by the pre-Socratics, these ekphrastic pieces are deft as they are intelligent. Soriano begins with the remarkable art of others – Lee U-fan, Edmund Lucis, Gunther Gerzo – and ruminates his way into a remarkable art of his own, a sounding out of mind and something more than mind. Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm stands at the center of Felino Soriano’s recent, miraculous output and will remain representative both of the poet’s Oeuvre and the best of what’s being done in contemporary experimental poetry.”
— Charles Freeland, author of “Through the
In his latest book, “Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm”, Felino Soriano takes his famous “Painters’ Exhalation” series to new heights. These interpretations of canvasses brim with possibilities of discovery, of seeing, and Soriano offers them as prisms not dogma.
Thus a new form of art: the poem-painting. Take a single excerpt, from the very first poem: —after
Emmi Whitehorse's Noon
Noon has the warmest hands. A leading
to touch, their body ambulates on all aspects of tangible ground. Too, lake's devotional hydrated skin, this warmth, causational rippling into dancing mirage.
We feel the joy of midday glory; we can roll it between our fingers, or watch it dazzlingly reflect off a pristine lake. This is a work of art laced with so much beauty in word and conception, that the reader is often stunned by what is beheld. If you have not read Felino Soriano, you do not know modern poetry at its finest, and this volume is sublime.
—Renae Fréson
“In his latest collection of poetry, Felino A. Soriano continues to take interpretation to the level of immersion, but his explorations come full circle. He is beginning to actively explore not only interpretation of art in his poetry by the articulation of intuitive and subjective perceptions, but to explore the act of interpretation itself. He engages with the problematic nature of defined aesthetics, deciding to come at it directly now by incorporating the “angles” themselves as an emerging element that takes center stage in this collection.
By paradigm, Soriano aims to probe directly: What is real, and what is relative? What is the role of response? What constitutes a functional theme, and what is ornamental? Where do we find ourselves, among the often divergent schools of thought?
What we are seeing here is Soriano after more than five hundred poems, truly taking pause and taking up the task of something almost approaching self-criticism. What can he offer now by way of culmination, what has he learned? If you read Soriano's extensive “Exhalations”, you will see that he has learned a lot, informed by both his passion for visual art and his study of aesthetic philosophy itself, which is what he really marries in this collection. When does art succeed? Soriano seems to have concluded that the burden of that, to stir emotion or provoke thought or elicit or engage, lies squarely on the act of interpretation- giving that process even greater weight over execution.”
Ultimately, the success lies in the viewer, the reader, the interpreter, the recipient. The “angles” fall away, perception is paramount.
----- Lynn Alexander, Co-editor of Full of Crow
"subtlety in language, veracity in voice, delicately succinct in each transmission; Felino Soriano's Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm illuminates, informs and wills the divine language spirit in every breath. in short, there is really nothing like it in the poetic ether. Soriano is a a poet's poet."
— Jack Henry, author of "with the patience of monuments"
Feeling through Mirages by Felino Soriano
Cover art by Rebecca Jonas
Felino Soriano is a Californian poet, philosophy student and case manager working with developmentally and physically disabled adults. His chapbook "Exhibits Require Understanding Open Eyes" was published by and is available through Trainwreck Press, 2008. The juxtaposition of his philosophical studies with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains his poetic stimulation. Recent poems appear at BlazeVOX, Sugar Mule, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Otoliths, Wilderness House Literary Review, among others. Visit www.felinosoriano.com for a complete publication history and for more information.
Cover artist, Rebecca Jonas (Greenville, SC, USA) Receiving a BA from U of Wisconsin, she first came to SC to teach art. She continues to promote the arts by serving on the boards and committees of Greenville’s Upstate Visual Arts, and Metropolitan Arts Council. Versed in many medias it was in pastel she developed her representational style over a variety of subject matter. As a full time artist she has explored the combination of different media. "Taking what is known and expanding the application is what creative thinking is all about." This can be seen in her unique use of pastels, color changing washes on walls, to sculpting in sheet rock mud and fabric. "There are happy accidents in art, though if you can repeat them, they become a technique." This has given birth to her newest direction... Photo Nouveau.
Feeling through Mirages is a numbered limited edition signed by both the poert, Felino Soriano and the cover artist Rebecca Jonas. 24 pages, 7 poems.
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“If not the most gifted poet of the postmodern era, Felino Soriano is most certainly well within the realm of genius. There is no poet he can be compared to; his voice is astoundingly authentic and original. To engage in a poem of Soriano's is to journey down a metaphysical stream of elevated consciousness constantly in pursuit of existential truth and consistently assaulting au courant notions of 'reality'. The improvioval gut wrenching yet silken influence of rarefied jazz ~ is evident in the brilliant rhythmic flow, euphony and prosody that distinguishes all his work. The previously un-conceptualized image is another hallmark, blinding juxtapositions that causes the reader to read and re-read beyond the need to absorb the density of insight; they are compelled to savor the magnitude of his rarefied created beauty. Feeling Through Mirages is a prototypical representation of Soriano's artistry, as he simply cannot write a poem that is less than exceptional. This can be readily seen in any poem in this stunning compilation, say 'Spatial Identity': The rocking/chair's mentality/is mundane to the human,/yet/within its linear momentum/catapult of thought never fades into/what the antiquated person/delivers into memory/ The first four words: "The rocking chair's mentality ", immediately assault the readers consciousness and then the reader is fully enswaddled in the obvious but heretofore incomprehensible ~ linear, 'trustworthy' rocking is far truer than mnemic distortion of perspective, subjective interpretation. In reading Soriano's work there is one guarantee: the reader will be profoundly impacted. Indeed, they will never see the world in the same way again.”
—Constance Stadler, Advisory Coeditor of the online journal Eviscerator Heaven “Felino Soriano interests, excites, exalts with his anti-conceptualized-cognitional, pretheoretical, phenomentalist (More Merleau-Ponty, Heieggeran than Husserlan) non-noumenal, quasi-existential, actually existentiell poetry. Felino writes a non-mirror language, expands Aristotle's mimesis (the imitation of an action), abolishes themization, overcomes the false Western dichotomy of subject and object, transvalues binary oppositions into hitherto previously unknown fused realities. Through his non-dual perception he bypasses and surpasses post-modern aporias and gives us a reality. He uncovers a reality that has always been present, but has been previously overlooked, misunderstood. His discovery of this hitherto overlooked and misunderstood reality is due to an emotionally expanded consciousness, not altered, based on an intense emotional involvement with the other that loses its otherness within a relationship of closeness and intense feeling. Felino's is a poetry of the supremely involved emotive intelligence, the supreme imagination. He has made obsolete the anachronistic approach of the Neo-Platonic Cartesian linguistic traditions as manifest in the popularly derived au courant surrealisms and as manifest in the quackery of the deep image with all its manipulations and commodifications.”
—Duane Locke, author of the forthcoming (April 2009) YANG CHU'S POEMS from Canadian publisher, Crossing Chaos
“Felino Soriano's poetry in this collection is outstanding for a robust intellectualism and a pristine philosophical sensibility that faithfully follows a neonymic agenda, as opposed to the arbitrary assemblage of dead names that constitutes traditional poetizing. These poems strive to show that things are evanescent constructs, posits that need to be rethought; and this chapbook is political, it is a manifesto for the liberation of appearances, tells us let mirages say something and offer a choice of realities beyond what insensate societal conditioning tells us to expect. It needs to be read.”
—David Mclean, author of several books, including Cadaver's Dance published through Whistling Shade Press
