Our Vision
Eventually, we plan to publish a quarterly journal, dedicated to poetry, essay, and other art forms. Spectral Lyre blog will familiarize you with our general vision: poetry and other forms of expression as primarily aesthetic and metaphysical happenings. Occasionally, one will come across a poem in which the poet has become language itself and is speaking a quality of time’s mystique.
Such poems hold a paradoxical, ambivalent tension between joy and melancholy. We prefer that kind of poem, where the poet almost disappears during the transformation of experience into the substance of written art, into the texture of an almost musical truth. Oftener than not, those poems are strangely coherent and hospitable — the reader requires no secret code or sticks of dynamite to uncover a sense of what’s being said, what’s being meant. Besides eventually publishing new poems, we will bring to fresh light older poems by master poets. Other kinds of masterful work will complement our emphasis on poetry — the visual arts, music, and prose. We’re also keenly interested in translation.
