Nor
With an exceptionally luminous composition of rhymeâ€"driven poetry inserted into 95 original poems comes a book with the sweet and short title simply known as "Nor." Displayed within is a masterful exhibit of complexity arrived through simplicity arranged in such ways that at times can and will befuddle the ordinary mind. Intertwined subjects ranging from mysticism, love, life and the thereafter, physicality, duality in good and evil to the existence of God, coupled with a humbling presentation of writer Norman Hollow's introspective outlook deduced through such topics.Designed with the likeness of a mathematical formula, architecturally precise in its placement, is a city constructed with language confounded by word configuration depicting conceptual rhymes of morality and mortality as well as an aerobatic show of linguistic similes, metaphors, and analogous dots connected. Norman Hollow exuberantly assimilates philosophy and rhythm in ways rarely seen in the literary world, artistically as passionately and with fine focused meticulousness.
From the quantum elements of life to farâ€"out thoughts, with a middle ground to reflect each side, begins a voyage initialed with the lengthened poem titled "In Dust Decayed" where patterns may shatter minds in opposition of the conventional, common commentary. Progressing while dwindling in an oxymoronic fashion, "Nor" comes to a conclusive end with "Art Attracts" in which highâ€"end thoughts come with mindâ€"bending cover costs and allâ€"inclusive jars of time sand discovered, inscribed with less than 36 words combined.
Read along to a book written from nothing, as described in "Prophecy Pages," and uncover â€" or better said, rediscover the reality that no thing is separate no matter how vast or distant they may appear, in remembering that all is truly one, cleverly reminded by Norman Hollow.
-- Norman Hollow