Sunday, October 24, 2010

Felino A. Soriano


Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults.  He has authored 38 print and electronic collections of poetry, including “In Praise of Absolute Interpretation” (Desperanto, 2010) and “Realities of Bifocal Translations” (Blue & Yellow Dog Press, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and elsewhere.  He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing electronic chapbooks of experimental poetry.  In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review.  Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences.  His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info





Approbations 740
—after Herbie Hancock’s Driftin’



Relocate, then.  Then
recall
            positional placement
                                                interpreted finite
elements of fulcrum
                                    shown
                        shown
                                                            pivotal newness.  Of air’s
hand-woven documentation
            etching now’s malleable          spontaneous alterations, here
                                                                                    here
decorated
            evidence of a melody’s dissipating negligence. 





Approbations 741
—after John Coltrane’s Serenity



                                                            As
                                                angular
                                    moisture
                        portrays
abstract blurs of succinct representation
                                                                                    curtains of mathematical crows
                                                                                                disavow
                                                                                                                        fundamental
                                                                                                            clarity
disowning proper definitions
                                    reinventing abject focus
                                                                                                leaving
stained glass semblances
            glossy against renewed
inclines of
                        manipulated instance. 





Approbations 742
—after McCoy Tyner’s Impressions



Persona
portrait
renege clearness                      distorted          consent
                                    provoking intellectual motive, of resource
                        of
            participatory dialectic
betwixt camaraderie
                                        and
designated halos
                                                                                    lit-north versions of
constituted logic.