Skryabin Mysterium
Dream Mind of Alexander Scriabin
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Georgiana Peacher’s SKRYABIN MYSTERIUM is a work that begins before language. Its qualities tap bedrock in some dangerous, thrilling primordial slide out from under birdsong, clay flute, wind through foliage like the sound of fire like rain. These are poems born through suffering into words so spare they startle. The story they chart, the psychic marriage they intuit-the story of a young boy and a poet who greet each other at the door of time-is so imaginative and stunning that the reader is changed by its power, its griefs and joys, and the music, at times tragic, at others ecstatic, lingers now inside each of us. Peacher convinces that for the artist there is a stillness at the center of being, currents in the air around us, currents that pass through us here at the threshold of the present, the possible, where “pussywillow gray spirits charcoal sky”
- Deborah Digges
Georgiana Peacher in Mary Stuart’s Ravishment Descending Time may well have given us the greatest passage on yellow eyes ever written…
- Alexander Theroux
About the Author
Georgiana Peacher, Ph.D., Northwestern University, is Professor Emerita, City University of New York, and formerly Clinical Professor of Voice Pathology and Psychology, Temple University Medical School. She is an author of articles in medical journals and texts, and books of voice and prose poems, a dramatist, and book artist. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, she has lived in Philadelphia, Paris, Cape May, Edinburgh, London, Zurich, New York City, and currently in Maine.