Rocky Mountain Oysters: A Collection of Poems and Conversation - Paperback

by Tod Gaines (Author)

In Rocky Mountain Oysters: A Book of Poems and Conversations, poet and visual artist Tod Gaines searches for universal truth as he captures love, life, and humanity at its barest essence. With over eighty plainspoken poems and vignettes with titles such as "The Farmer," "Nobody Knows," and "Maria Said Let Them Eat Cake," this animated debut collection is heavy in hip-hop with a lyrical, straightforward narrative prose. He shows fans of spoken word poetry where the fire is hidden. He directs readers to revel in solitude and grace and to stop looking for love, but to rather look inside. Deeply imaginative, utterly surreal, Gaines takes his audience to a place where things immediately are ignited and burn out. These poems are all about soul stuff. Combustible exhaustion, his message is timeless, eternal, and as fresh as a newborn. For him, it's all been done before and, perhaps, that is the point.

Author Biography

Tod Gaines is a celebrated Boston artist, poet, and photographer. He has had over thirty exhibits in the Massachusetts area, most notably group exhibits, Boston's Copley Square Library, State House Bayside Expo, Simmons College, The Chinese Cultural Center, and CCTV Cambridge, a permanent group exhibit in The Children's Hospitals of New England in Boston, Waltham, and Lexington, MA. He has also enjoyed gallery showings at The Joan Reskinoff Gallery, Tremont Street Art Gallery and the Out of the Blue Art Gallery in Cambridge, as well as being featured at Roxbury Open Studios and Roxbury's "Family Night Out Against Violence." Rocky Mountain Oysters: A Book of Poems and Conversations is his first collection of poems.