Immortal Seeds: Bearing Gold from the Abyss

by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

"IMMORTAL SEEDS, is a remarkable book, a passionate weaving together of poems and paintings that in turn reveal the intimate union and spiritual path shared by two loving souls. When tragedy enters the path, the alchemy of love transports the lovers from rapture and bliss to sorrow and loss. And we must follow as the search for deeper dimensions of compassion and grace becomes the way forward."--Michael Meade

"What is 'immortal?' That which is not subject to death and decay. As Hippocrates wrote, Ars longa, vita brevis. And what is a 'seed?' Origin, root, fountainhead--come to mind. IMMORTAL SEEDS is a collection of art and poetry, of that which cannot decay and is a planting of creative eternality. Borne of a heart nurtured by true love, he love of David Campagna, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, the artist-poet has, in image and word, produced a volume that brings to mind Shakespeare's: 'So long lives this and this gives life to thee.' Or, to paraphrase: 'So long as these IMMORTAL SEEDS exist, they give life to Carolyn's beloved.'"--Stanley H. Barkan

"Carolyn Kleefeld's Immortal Seeds shows her as inspired and creative as ever, perhaps even more so: her combined powers of painting and poetry not only transfigure the intimate symbiosis of two human beings in the best tradition of ut pictura poesis, but her artistic impulse also gives new form and substance to the timeless tale of 'star-crossed lovers, ' reaching a fascinating as well as touching intensity and directness of expression that clearly goes beyond what she achieved in her earlier work. Looking and reading through her iconographic book of love and compassion, one may even sense Aldous & Laura Huxley's spiritual legacy--the divine ground and the art of dying-- and feel induced to call in the third art that strives to express the inexpressible, viz. music, as it is for instance represented in the ending of Island: 'Disregarded in the darkness the fact of enlightenment remained. [...] and as the intruding noises died away, out came the frogs again, out came the uninterruptable insects, out came the mynah birds. 'Karuna. Karuna.' And a semi-tone lower, 'Attention.'"--Prof. Dr. Bernfried Nugel, Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, University of M, nster, Germany

Poetry. Art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893048577
• ISBN13: 9780893048570
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Cross-Cultural Communications / The Seventh Q
• Length: 180 Pages