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HOLOGLYPHS is a neologism, fused from the terms 'whole' and 'image', and describes a poetic style reminiscent of works from T'ang dynasty China, as both literary directions are in-part, image-based. However, unlike T'ang period pieces, the works in this volume are more centered in imagistic archetypes – aspiring to Ezra Pound's vision of the "Luminous detail".
These poems are meditative and quiet, yet in similar fashion to descriptions of Harold Budd's ethereal music, they also possess a thin veneer of serenity that masks darker currents behinds silhouettes of the passing day. Perhaps a more accurate summation of the essence of these pieces would be captured by the Japanese term "Yuugen" [??] – roughly translated as 'mystery in beauty'.
Yeatts says: "...Poetry must reverberate with the eternal and stand as meditations on what it means to be briefly alive, delivering a distillation and re-animation of transcendent experience, woven of mystery, beauty and the eternal moment..."
This selection of Yeatts' work presents a unified current that paints patinas of the day's impermanence, yet never loses touch of the 'whole image' contained within the moment's timeless light.