Word Colors

About the Book

The idea for (Book titled) “Word Colors” came to me back in the late Seventies when I still (at that time) was caught between being an artist/painter or a poet/writer. So I eventually chose to write and utilize my (lifelong) study of words (etymology, linguistics and derivations, i.e., “from Greek”, “from Latin,” etc.) to where I began blending and accenting, via word spellings, into more Colorful and, say, Embellished new words, i.e., accenting words within words as a new form of word play. As if to say in “OTHER WORDS” to ENTERTAIN in my poetry rather than to develop the too usual waxing philosophical OTHER than what the theme of the poem ITSELF might evolve to or emit au natural.

About the Author

W X Libris has lived in the Berkshires off and on for many years. He is an avid hiker who has walked considerable tracts of the many diverse Northeast mountains and trails. Though mostly so, a few of his images are reflective of or are taken from his on road/offroad travels, such as the beauty, at times,surpassing beauty, of the Great Smoky (misty ‘n’ mossy) Mountains of Tennessee. There are dells in its forests, you really don’t want to leave. (No wonder old Jack started brewing in his little ol’ shack. The samples were good too.) Having that little nip there in Tennessee, he also real-ized, he’s a graduate Ex Libris of the Athenaeum and The Forests. He started his early life wanting to be an artist— in love with colors, the smell of linseed oil in the morning— but gradually found the challenge of getting “words” to blend into shades of meaning the most intriguing of all to his nature, to be able to wrestle syntax and grammar into new modes of verbal expression that the elusive subtleties poetry seeks might be better captured. He has been published here and there in varied print media. The Way the Light Falls and Pocketful of Words, books soon to be.