"Clair-Obscur of the Soul" by Jean-Yves Solinga, is a book of poetry by a poet of immense ability and range whose poetry collected in this book is truly remarkable. It contains many breathtakingly beautiful and sophisticated poems, which reach out to the very limits of the human condition, where true art exists. They are a product and symbolically reflect a life of cultural duality and a search for the cool plains of resolution with the past. He came from the "solar" heat of French Morocco to the "Labradorean" cold coastal waters and countryside of New England. His father, a gendarme, mother,...

"Clair-obscur de l'ame" de Jean-Yves Solinga est un recueil de poemes d'un ecrivain d'immense talent et de variete et dont la poesie est vraiment remarquable. Elle contient des passages, d'une beaute et sophistication spectaculaires, qui vous transportent a la limite de la condition humaine ou reside le vrai art. Cela est le resultat d'une vie qui reflete symboliquement la dualite d'une vie culturelle et la poursuite vers un paysage de resolution avec le passe. L'auteur commence dans la chaleur 'solaire' du Maroc pour aller vers le froid 'Labradorien' des cotes et du site de la Nouvelle...

"Words Made of Silk" is a beautiful book of poetry, the fifth to be published by Little Red Tree Publishing, in which Jean-Yves has once again created a complete book of poetry, both riveting and challenging in its scope with a large measure of artistic courage. With an aesthetic anti-poetic underpinning, which is not in any sense without purpose, there is a self-evident awareness of the potential conflict with his own natural sense of mellifluous prose, detectable in the conflict and duality within the contrasting subject matter of the poems. Jean-Yves floats with consummate ease between the...

"In the Shade of a Flower" is Jean-Yves Solingas third book. It is not only a wonderful selection of poetry, with select French translations, but supported and contextualized by an extensive prologue and epilogue of previously unpublished essays called, "Multiple Realities." The essays explore Jean-Yves core intellectual reasoning, beliefs and concepts that underpin this collection and define his philosophy as a writer, poet and artist.
The poems in section I "Totems of the Universe" have a hard edge and are where Jean-Yves examines the "coexistence" of mankind in the midst of an...

"Landscape of Envies" is a handsome volume, the fourth to be published by Little Red Tree Publishing, in which Jean-Yves has once again created a complete book of poetry, both riveting and challenging in its scope as well as penetrating into areas of the human condition that are the refuge of dreamers and the artist. Like Cezanne, who redefined a personal perception of the world and in so doing laid the path toward total abstraction that others were to follow, in many ways you will find that Jean-Yves is engaged in the same process of fashioning a personal multilayered experience that...

"Impressions of Reality" is Jean-Yves' 6th book of poetry, and in the words of W.F. Lantry, "Jean-Yves Solinga embraces the world with clear-eyed enthusiasm. There is a kind of joy in these poems, tempered by hard-edged vision. The laughter of women, the art of ship building, music and philosophy, all find their natural place within Solinga's lines. Solinga casts a cold eye on the past, and uses it as a prism for outlining an absolutely modern present. He manages to make the unraveling of complex knots simple, but doesn't destroy them- he helps us understand how they're woven. Even the death...

"Artist in a Pixelated World," by Jean-Yves Solinga, is a wonderful new book of poems that sees him wander into the space between the selectivity of reality-pixelated world-and mellifluous lyricism of his poetic response. From his early teenage poems, he has tried to breach, with only the strength of his humanism, the divide between reality and dreams, life and nothingness, social solidarity and admitting defeat. "Artist in a Pixelated World" attempts to add to those who instinctively, unapologetically and passionately believe in poetrys ability to dare to impose words on the temporal reality...

In this book, "Asymptotes at the Infinity of Passion," the eighth book of poetry, in as many years, Jean-Yves returns to grapple with his and Camus' definition of the core responsibility of the artist-poet in Jean-Yves' case-which is to distill ineffability and offer it in as aesthetic form as possible, so that we may access a fresh, revitalized vision of humanity and the world in which we all exist: From the small, intimate and personal private moments, to the big, public, international events that change the course of history. Essentially there is no subject matter that is too small or...