Collin Kelley
Autor(a) de Gotham City Garage Vol. 1
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Krystyna FitzGerald-Morris
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Obras por Collin Kelley
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Kelley, Collin
- Nome legal
- Kelley, Collin Mitchell
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-09-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Ocupações
- journalist
playwright
poet
novelist - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Georgia Author of the Year Nominee (2003)
Georgia Author of the Year/Taran Memorial Award (2007)
Deep South Festival of Writer's Award (Best Play, 1994)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Collin Kelley's debut novel, Conquering Venus, is out now from Vanilla Heart Publishing. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, After the Poison, available now from Finishing Line Press. He is also the author of the collection, Better To Travel, the spoken word album, HalfLife Crisis, available at CD Baby and iTunes, and the chapbook Slow To Burn. Kelley, a Georgia Author of the Year Award-winner and Pushcart Prize nominee, is also co-editor of the Java Monkey Speaks Poetry Anthology series from Poetry Atlanta Press. He is working on his second novel, Remain in Light.
Membros
Críticas
OCHO #24 featuring Twitter Poets: MiPOesias Print… por Collin Kelley
Some really fine poems in here, from Ivy Alvarez's kick-off poem "What Vivien Leigh Dropped" with its enfolded rhymes to Nancy Devine's "Queen" sonnet homage to Freddy Mercury ("Mercury rises") to Saeeed Jones's "Daedalus, After Icarus" and those transformative last lines "We don't want wings. / We want to be fish now." to Christopher Hennessy's "Autopsy" where the precision of the words evokes the precision of the dissecting action, not to mention those wonderful full- and slant- rhymes done in tercets, pulling off three end rhymes in a row without it sounding sing-songy! I could go on about the others but there's so much to discover here that you should just go pick up your own copy and enjoy.… (mais)
Remain in Light is the second in a 3 book set but does stand alone, as well. I had not read the first of the three.
Remain in Light interweaves a number of mysteries into one cohesive and enjoyable story. It’s characters each seek some answers to long standing mysteries in their lives. Lovers have disappeared, a husband was mysteriously killed and lives have been shattered. Irene seeks closure about the death of her husband, Martin seeks closure on an old love with a student named David who has dropped out of sight While searching for his lost love, Martin enters into a dead end relationship withI rene’s neighbor, Euan while falling in love with a young admirer of his work named Christian.
In the backdrop of the intrigue, love blooms as two men (Martin and Christian) discover each other and old, lost loves are put to rest. The love relationship between the men evolves beautifully and Kelley does a great job of bringing the two together, such a great job in fact, that I envied these fictional characters while recalling lost loves and missed opportunities of my own life.
As the novel ends and some of the mysteries are solved, the groundwork for the nest book has been put into place, leaving the reader satisfied with the ending of this book if he does not go on, yet Hungary to see what happens next if he does.
I very much likeKelley’s poetry and enjoyed this genre, the novel, too. He is a talented writer and I look forward to reading and commenting on the final book of this thee novel collection.… (mais)
Remain in Light interweaves a number of mysteries into one cohesive and enjoyable story. It’s characters each seek some answers to long standing mysteries in their lives. Lovers have disappeared, a husband was mysteriously killed and lives have been shattered. Irene seeks closure about the death of her husband, Martin seeks closure on an old love with a student named David who has dropped out of sight While searching for his lost love, Martin enters into a dead end relationship withI rene’s neighbor, Euan while falling in love with a young admirer of his work named Christian.
In the backdrop of the intrigue, love blooms as two men (Martin and Christian) discover each other and old, lost loves are put to rest. The love relationship between the men evolves beautifully and Kelley does a great job of bringing the two together, such a great job in fact, that I envied these fictional characters while recalling lost loves and missed opportunities of my own life.
As the novel ends and some of the mysteries are solved, the groundwork for the nest book has been put into place, leaving the reader satisfied with the ending of this book if he does not go on, yet Hungary to see what happens next if he does.
I very much likeKelley’s poetry and enjoyed this genre, the novel, too. He is a talented writer and I look forward to reading and commenting on the final book of this thee novel collection.… (mais)
Like all collections and anthologies, some of the entries in "Better to Travel" hit the mark far better than others. Those that are of the better quality both express and evoke strong emotional reactions. Kelley clearly understands how it feels to love intensely, to lose that love, to find despair. He also understands how to make his words convey all those feelings to readers.
Poetry ought to stir the emotions. It is a language of the soul and of the heart conveyed through the minds of both poet and reader finding similar feelings and meaning. Many of the works in this large collection do every bit of that, but those that do not rise to that level are particularly flat and lifeless.
Even though Kelley is a gay writer and probably telling about m/m relationships at the literal level, you do not feel that in the poetry. It is universal. It applies to anyone who is on love, has been in love or has lost love. It is a worthwhile collection and I am glad I was finally able to locate it and then read it.… (mais)
Poetry ought to stir the emotions. It is a language of the soul and of the heart conveyed through the minds of both poet and reader finding similar feelings and meaning. Many of the works in this large collection do every bit of that, but those that do not rise to that level are particularly flat and lifeless.
Even though Kelley is a gay writer and probably telling about m/m relationships at the literal level, you do not feel that in the poetry. It is universal. It applies to anyone who is on love, has been in love or has lost love. It is a worthwhile collection and I am glad I was finally able to locate it and then read it.… (mais)
In the book Leaving Paris, the author Collin Kelley completes his Venus Trilogy. While this book might stand on its own, I think a reader would probably struggle with understanding the various plots and sub-plots and would probably despair over keeping the characters separated from one another.
This is a good suspense novel that held my interest throughout. It’s characters are clearly differentiated from one another, each entering into the lives of the others in various manners. There is one central plot and many sub-plot and one arch villain earning the fear and hatred of the characters and the novel’s readers.
While there are several relationships portrayed within this and the previous volumes, the foremost is the one centering around the central character, Martin.
In the previous volume, the relationships often focused on the sex, but in this volume, the characters have grown and evolved and the novel focuses upon the mature relationships among them. The relationship between Martin and his lover Christian reflects intimacy, commitment and caring and in every way is different from all other caring relationships, heteronormative gay. Thus, the male love affairs and male sexual behaviors recede deeply into the background as the commitment of the various relationships take center stage.
The book(s) hold many sub-plots and each is interesting all by itself, but all are finally resolved by the end of this book.
Throughout the books, there has been a slight thread of supernatural or metaphysical relationships and occurrences, but in this book, these become more prominent, although not really too much until close to the end.
Leaving Paris is a fun book to read. Kelley writes skillfully, never tipping his hand or otherwise destroying the direction of the novel. It is a book I read with such pleasure that I hardly noticed how long I was spending reading it. I am glad I was on a long air flight and he’d the opportunity to read Kelley’s crooks.… (mais)
This is a good suspense novel that held my interest throughout. It’s characters are clearly differentiated from one another, each entering into the lives of the others in various manners. There is one central plot and many sub-plot and one arch villain earning the fear and hatred of the characters and the novel’s readers.
While there are several relationships portrayed within this and the previous volumes, the foremost is the one centering around the central character, Martin.
In the previous volume, the relationships often focused on the sex, but in this volume, the characters have grown and evolved and the novel focuses upon the mature relationships among them. The relationship between Martin and his lover Christian reflects intimacy, commitment and caring and in every way is different from all other caring relationships, heteronormative gay. Thus, the male love affairs and male sexual behaviors recede deeply into the background as the commitment of the various relationships take center stage.
The book(s) hold many sub-plots and each is interesting all by itself, but all are finally resolved by the end of this book.
Throughout the books, there has been a slight thread of supernatural or metaphysical relationships and occurrences, but in this book, these become more prominent, although not really too much until close to the end.
Leaving Paris is a fun book to read. Kelley writes skillfully, never tipping his hand or otherwise destroying the direction of the novel. It is a book I read with such pleasure that I hardly noticed how long I was spending reading it. I am glad I was on a long air flight and he’d the opportunity to read Kelley’s crooks.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 97
- Popularidade
- #194,532
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 17
- Marcado como favorito
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