Salt of the Dancer: Selected Verse

About the Book

Rich as Georgia clay, Salt of the Dancer: Selected Verse is a fusion of mythological motifs, classic literary themes and modern pop sensibilities. It is concerned primarily with the working class hero whose bless-ed journey, with its many trials and tribulations, is the stuff of mortal heartbreak and the envy of the Gods. Upon reading, its credo is clear: Life's sacred. Life's profane. Life's the thing!

Each poem is a song of heartbreak with one objective: to drive the reader head-over-heels into a SWOON accompanied by the customary physical effects-rosy cheeks, wet palms, and weak knees.

"En this Life En this gorgeous irony

Amid the heavyscented arpeggios Of blackbyrds & Angels wrestling En a drunken slumber

Eye am not to be the river of all things Eye am not to be his little girl" -From the poem Sappho

Beautiful, Sexy, and sometimes Cruel, Salt of the Dancer: Selected Verse paints an intimate portrait of the Soul's epic struggle with the powers and principalities of Love and Death. And, in doing so, unites the beauty and terror of existence, and trumpets the need for a brave new humanism, and a renewed love affair with the deeds and misdeeds of Man.

About the Author

Dé Avery Priest holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Theatre from Hiram College. He is a teacher and self-described Prince fanatic. He currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife Persephone.