SANDY: Chronicles of a Superstorm

By Michael Foldes

"This book reveals a surprising winter (November 2012/March 2013) artistic collaboration between two New York City metropolitan-area creative masters: visual artist, Christie Devereaux and poet, Michael Foldes. Their unique collaboration was conceived in the wake of Superstorm Sandy’s incredible devastation in which both artists were deeply and directly involved (e.g., Devereaux’s mother’s home was inundated by the Atlantic Ocean and Foldes was an eye-witness to Manhattan’s flooding that reached a high-water mark at 34th Street). Confronting Sandy’s chaotic horror, sorrow, and pain caused Devereaux to reexamine her emerging “Storm Series” as post-Sandy reflections (in paint), probing Nature’s brutality and fury. Meanwhile, Foldes had begun writing the first “Sandy poems”. Soon after, the two were merging their works in what would become a series of storm-related poems illumined with virtuoso illustrations."
-- From the Foreword by Dr. Jose Rodeiro, Professor of Art History, New Jersey City University.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Foldes
• Release date: Jul 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310733321

Michael Foldes

Michael Foldes is a sales engineer specializing in medical displays and other electronic products. A graduate of The Ohio State University in anthropology, he has edited and published magazines, poetry anthologies, chapbooks, alternate newspapers, technical publications, and was an editor and columnist with Gannett newspapers in Binghamton, NY. He is the founder and managing editor of the online Arts magazine Ragazine.CC. He and his wife have three adult children. They live in Upstate New York.

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Sandy

Chronicles of a Superstorm

Poetry

by Michael Foldes

Paintings & Photographs

by Christie Devereaux

Copyright 2014 by Michael Foldes & Christie Devereaux

All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written permission of the publisher.

Experientia Docet Press® First Edition

Cover: Christie Devereaux / Argento 15

Library of Congress CIP Number:

ISBN 9781495976605

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Poems

Sandy 1

Sandy 2

Sandy 3 - The Vote

Sandy 4 – Chelsea

Sandy 5 – Clean Streets

Sandy 6

Sandy 7

Sandy 8 – Drawing a Blank

Sandy 9 – Survivor Guilt

Sandy 10 – Well of Suffering

Sandy 11

Sandy 12 – In Balance

Sandy 13 – Snow

Sandy 14 – Celebrate

Sandy 15 – Reality Check

Sandy 16