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Songs of Ariel: Hush, Pit-a-Pat

by Ariel W.

189 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #05-0266; ISBN 1-4120-5371-4; US$32.99, C$41.24, EUR26.80, £18.58

Passion poetry in a readable form, extracted from over 1,200 letters between two pain-kissers (an Asian poetess and an American musician) who have never met in person, but known, pained and loved through music, the internet and pain.

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There has been a lot about Love. And this book may tell 'about' the same. However, it is different because it was originally written for the sake of a melancholy Genius who constantly needed to be replenished with a nightly dose of novel passion, and because it was written by a passionate Asian woman whose mind was always seething with fleeting thoughts and imagination and whose heart was full of passion, pity and love. Apparently it is a love story in a form of verse extracted from over 1,200 letters between an Asian poetess and an American musician (or a Vampire and a Vampire-Lover; or simply two Pain-kissers) that have never met in person but through music and internet, and pain - And both egos were alike in that they hated the world from the bottom of the guts, although they emulated each other in demonstrating how much they loved the world - yet at once they always wanted to create something more than the world, out of the world.

It is not about pinky rosy weakling decorative name, so well-renowned to people as Love. It is much of blood from naked soul. It is a voice unique, something else than human that has been sleeping in the human. And it was not for people - until it pained her to decide to open up, pent-up within her heart, never voiced out to any. So it is Passion/Pain Poetry. Pain is how these two souls were connected at first and throughout. To quote her:

Without pain, neither pleasure nor happiness can be. Even beauty, without suffering, cannot be true beauty enduring. Sheer happiness, with passion castrated, is simply 'incomplete.' Therefore, it is not only about pain but also about pleasure, happiness, beauty, and passion but embracing pain within.--Editor M. Channdler--

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About the Author

She was born and brought up in some Far Eastern coastal village. Government registry tells that she lived over 30 years, yet she feels as if having lived even longer than this - a few tiring centuries.

The other record tells that at her tender age, she graduated from school summa cum laude. And a third of her life so far has been spent at universities, including two years' teaching, with three degrees in both Biology and English Language & Literature (with Master's thesis, A Problem of Seduction in Measure for Measure). And she did a little bit of Chinese Medicine thereafter. But her concern was consistent throughout: 'To know human beings.' To track her down out of registry, the first love came to her at nine - a pure Platonic one with a man 15 years older than she. To be succinct, she married once, divorced once, engaged once, and broke once - 'the breakup' due to a man that she has never met but that has known and loved through the medium of music and internet and pain. How? That is what Songs of Ariel is about. [You can hear her at http://home.naver.com/ariel6/]

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