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    City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry
    City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry
    City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry
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    City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry

    By Sy Hakim

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    Sy Hakim is an American Artist and Poet who has lived much of his life in Italy. This accounts for the many classical allusions one find in his works, both art and poetry. In addition to publication in various magazines and journals, he has published collections of poems (From the Cave-2007) and two plays. His first collection of poems was published in 1970, the same year of his first one person art show in Italy. He exhibits oils, woodblock prints and relief sculptures.

    As an exhibiting artist, his works have been shown and collected in Europe, Asia and the United States. Currently he is most active/exhibiting with the American Color Print Society, and The Plastic Club.

    Currently living with his wife, Odetta, in Philadelphia, PA. he has expanded his travels across America and his deepened experiences and awareness. Both poems and the art works are thematic with a strong relationship between the works. There is a shared pictorial approach: strong bold colors paralleling bold rhythmic explorations: Sy Hakim is a humanist, interested ina diverse civility and the ethic search into the story of myriad civilizations and religionshe fulfills the obligations of his subject and formsa validity combined to sustain his expressionistic (humanistic and poetic) concept [S. Maugeri, Italian critic]
    His artistic-poetic production, the work, the essence, hopefully reveals in its variation of themes, and symbolic- expressionistic quality, a life reverence: the ambiguity of life and the imminence of time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 10, 2010
    ISBN9781450253390
    City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry
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    Sy Hakim

    He and Odetta Roverso were married in Vicenza , Italy in 1970. Sy Hakim earned his MA in American Studies at New York University (1960) and continued graduate studies at various universities. He has been listed in “International Authors”; “Writers Who is Who” and other professional journals. “Sy Hakim is a humanist, interested in . . . a diverse civility and the ethic search into the story of myriad civilizations and religions.., he fulfills the obligations of his subject and forms.., a validity combined to sustain his expressionistic (humanistic and poetic) concept...” [S. Maugeri, Italian Critic] Sy Hakim is an American Artist and Poet who has lived much of his life in Italy. This accounts for the many classical allusions one find in his works, both art and poetry. In addition to publication in various magazines and journals, he has published collections of poems (The Promise of Eve, 1994) and two plays. His first collection of poems was published in 1970, the same year of his first one person art show in Italy.

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      City Flowers,Filaments and Arches,Shadows,Poetry - Sy Hakim

      Index

      City Flowers

      Before The Bridge

      Incubi

      Imponderable Memories

      The Brother

      Multiplicating Memories

      Beyond Color

      Beneath the Arches

      Bridges, Arches and Melting Snow

      Slow Emergence

      From The Castle

      Stasis

      Terminal

      Unfiltered

      Beyond Color

      The Painting

      Exhibition

      The Blue Window

      Magenta Sun

      The Quiet Poet

      The Poem

      Veneto Memory

      Once dominating, Dante

      Aged

      The Betrayal,

      Shadows’ Shades

      Penumbra

      In the Desert

      Terminal/Transition

      Silk Threads

      Better a Baked Blueberry

      City Vendors

      City Flowers

      City flowers, grown, uncut

      roses and vibrating colors –

      reds and brilliant yellows,

      upward exuberance thrust

      amidst green stalks and thorns:

      flung between the buttresses,

      the building’s ruins

      and brick remains

      a boy’s joy, contagious

      beyond the low wall.

      There was a building, here

      collapsed, now a lot

      an almost empty spare space,

      big city abandoned,

      flat and sprinkled dirt

      scattered with pebbles and stones,

      detritus – remnants –

      with dark dank dirt mixed:

      beneath red sun and motif,

      motives of Spring

      among ruins of collapse,

      hopes amidst relapse –

      a boy, arms raised laughter

      and vibrant roses grown.

      Before The Bridge

      Before the bridge,

      crossing

      amber time, held

      preserved, perceived

      blinking caution – pause:

      waiting at the bridge

      imponderable memories,

      life as memories – paused;

      life as the utilization,

      choices crossing;

      bridge, gap

      time, delay;

      choice is the utilization,

      fruitilization,

      sum of the accidental.

      Within memories’ choices

      pause, stop, select,

      step, go:

      hesitating step,

      go, stop, pause – go

      with the blinking amber;

      lights slide into motion,

      commotion of lights – glide –

      alternating with steps,

      hesitating – echoes –

      time gap

      beneath tower base

      and rising steel,

      curving

      cables and silent emotion…

      Memories glide, slide,

      a hesitation,

      a visitation-

      bridge gap

      a time delay;

      start with a stutter-step:

      initiate a control,

      colors – spinning

      beyond control – cascading

      life as memories’ choices –

      no choice –

      before the bridge,

      alternating before, between

      blinking choices and lights

      and

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