Still, the Sky by Tom Pearson (Oct.-Dec. 2022)

Please join us for our Fall 2022 blog tour for Still, the Sky by Tom Pearson, published by Ransom Poet Publishers in May 2022.

Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry and art that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming-of-age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. Fragmented memories, relics, and confessions combine in a labyrinth of fever dreams and meditations which contemplate innocence and experience, war and peace, exile and homecoming, flight and failure, love and loss.

Advance Praise:

“Mesmeric and enveloping… fluid poetry and stunning visual multimedia” — Kirkus Reviews

“Still, the Sky is a labyrinthine poetic epic that fleshes out a resilient and multifaceted mythological brotherhood.” — Dontaná McPherson-Joseph, Foreword Clarion Reviews

“This striking collection of dramatic verse interrogates, complicates, and humanizes… A work of originality and power, Still, the Sky… has the expressive clarity of dramatic monologues. Sharply vivid verse, powered by yearning and precision of language”
— BookLife by Publishers Weekly (Editor’s Pick)

“A feast for the eye, the heart, the spirit… reminiscent of the best of Robert Graves and Ezra Pound… Clearly a poet — a poet of words, and a visual poet — is at work here. — Pacific Book Review

“A wellspring of carefully-wrought imagery… Pearson’s poetry accomplishes a unique etherealness, precariously tethered to the present with a gossamer string, leaving the reader to feel the distance of millennia.” — Independent Book Review

About the Author:

Tom Pearson is an artist and poet who works in dance, theater, film, visual art, and multi-media. He is known for his original works for theater, including the long-running, off-Broadway immersive hits THEN SHE FELL and THE GRAND PARADISE and as a founder and co-artistic director of the New York City-based Third Rail Projects and Global Performance Studio.

He is the author of two books, THE SANDPIPER’S SPELL and STILL, THE SKY. More information available at his website and on social media at: tompearsonnyc.com and @tompearsonnyc.

Reading of “The Night Fisherman”:

“The Night Fishermen” from STILL, THE SKY by Tom Pearson from Ransom Poet on Vimeo.

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Blog Tour Schedule:

Oct. 19: Pages for Sanity (Instagram Review)

Oct. 27: Review Tales by Jeyran Main (Interview)

Oct. 28: Author Anthony Avina Blog (Review)

Nov. 12: Author Anthony Avina Blog (Guest Post)

Nov. 15: Wall-to-Wall Books (Review)

Nov. 29: The Book Lovers Boudoir (Review)

TBD: Jorie Loves a Story (Review)

Follow the online tour with hashtag #StilltheSky

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