Rescue and Redemption
By Frank Prem
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Drawing on the phrasing of T.S. Eliot’s amazing early 20th century poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of companionable and introspective love poetry written, as always, in the unique style that allows every reader to relate.
Prem's interpretations breathe new life into contemporary exploration of themes of love in poetry, and utilise Eliot’s original phrases to inspire a contemplation
of the self in the context of landscape and the wider world:
rescue and redemption is the third of three collections that comprise A Love Poetry Trilogy, with each revisiting outstanding work by stellar poets of the past to produce vibrant new collections. The first collection, walk away silver heart, draws on Amy Lowell’s deeply personal Madonna of the Evening Flowers, while the second, a kiss for the worthy, derives from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
This is a new kind of poetry that tells stories, draws pictures and elicits emotional responses from readers. Just as the best poetry should.
Frank Prem
Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse.He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as ‘spoken word’.Frank has published several collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019). and A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption) in 2020, as well as a two part picture book – A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book and A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book (too).He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).
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Rescue and Redemption - Frank Prem
About A Love Poetry Trilogy
Rescue and Redemption is the third of three collections of poetry written for A Love Poetry Trilogy.
The origin of this work goes back a number of years to an occasion when I was fortunate to participate in a project that involved individual poets located around the globe.
Each poet chose a phrase from the body of a distinguished poem written long in the past, and used that phrase as inspiration for a piece of new poetry. New and old were then hyperlinked together to create an interactive work.
Over the course of the project three poems (and their poets) were chosen as source material for the experiment:
Amy Lowell – Madonna of the Evening Flowers (1919)
Walt Whitman – Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass) Parts 1 and 2 (1855)
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (1915) (Epigraph plus Stanzas 1 – 5)
To the best of my knowledge no trace remains of the original project, but I was recently inspired to revisit and to continue an exploration of the effects these wonderful poems might have on my own work.
Each source poem commanded its own identifiable voice in my responses, and here I have worked with the Eliot poem.
My experience of this poem was that Eliot’s Prufrock is a journey in search of love, perhaps with a companion, or for a companion. Often into the less salubrious places.
It is a poem of massive scope, with the epigraph at the beginning serving, for me, the role of Requiem. The relevant sections of the poem follow.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To Lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not