Avant-garde, boom generation poet, translator and international multimedia artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents a new volume of his surrealistic poetry. His poems are imagistic, lyrical vehicles that express Keys' personal observations of the natural world, contrasted to the artificiality of man's world. Keys' work has been praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Gary Snyder and Gerald Stern, among others, as innovative and musical. As a member of the post-war baby boom generation of poets, his approach is that of a deconstructionst, dancing to the inner music of a post-modern sensibility. An entertaining, thought-provoking read.

Award winning poet, translator and international multi-media artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents his most recent collection of poetry -- "Transporting". These lyrical poems hypnotise the reader with the rhythm and tonality of their long lines. Imagery, language and cadence meld into a symphony of sound and sight that excites the imagination with its possibilities. Keys' poetry taps into his pastoral roots in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania and explodes with the intricate influences of his many journeys to other worlds. The collection showcases that richness of style and will attract an appreciative audience on the international poetry scene.

"When I read Kerry Shawn Keys' work, I note immediately how much I enjoy his phrasings, the unpredictable turns and twists of a line where each new word comes as surprise, and yet all are deeply satisfying when one re-reads them: "I knew Kathy Leonard in the night-soiled, chiselled guilt" or "tonight, you will drown in the unattended glossary of your dreams" or "ragged seams of coal share the flute-like warble / of a high-C in her voice" or "If all mornings could be like this whispered shower / of sunlight and rain" -- this gorgeous language that wants to stay in the mouth, one wants to toss the line this way and that, in memory. That alone would be more than enough, but Kerry Shawn Keys is also a master of a set-up, of a scene, and his poems, such as "Tennessee Williams Comes to Mulberry Street" can do within just a few stanzas what other writers take hundreds of pages to invent and develop. Then -- yes, there is more! -- there are absolutely hilarious, yet, true to life, in all of its manifestations, pieces such as "Experience" or "Dog" or "Springtime at the Edge of Paradise". But, by the end, what I found myself marvelling most at was his extended epistle, "From Celsus A Few Words", and his poignant, playful, and beautiful prayer, "Octopus." Both poems are brilliant gems in their genres, and any reader who opens the book on those pages will want to buy it and share the work with others. It is that good." -- Ilya Kaminsky

In his new collection of playful short poems, poet Kerry Keys presents us with the ultimate bestiary. Surrealistic imagery combines with keen word-play in Keys' poems, to tickle, tantalise and tease us beyond rationality into the cartoon world of his wild imagination. Nothing is as it appears in the Keys universe, yet it parallels and satirises reality. These poems are witty and lyrically intense poem-toys, worth repeated readings for their entertainment value.