Pages: 188 pages

Category: Poetry/General

Price: $22.00

Description:

I’m not exactly sure what possessed me to write these poems but they came out of me as most poems do, without prerequisite! I was inspired by her. What can say, love is free and when it comes it comes,
and one must obey! So, that’s what I did and why I did it. I’m an artist. Remember that. But, it’s not to
say I don’t have feelings of this kind, for her. The poems are honest, and sincerely written to Taylor
Swift. So, I wanted to share. The writing is honest and pure from me.

After thoroughly listening to Taylor Swift I have changed many preconceived notions about what it
means to me and what Pop art can do! Especially when someone has intently listened to independent
rock most of his life, and not to much pop music. If honesty is at all a voice to her in her songs (of which I
know it to be!) she will find, I hope, my book provocative, to say the least! I hope it finds her alive and
doing well. May she be moved by it!

AUTHOR BIO:

Damon Freed is an artist who cherishes balance, reason, and ambiguity. He expresses it through a variety of working methods; from abstracted realities to nonobjective paintings of grids and colorful forays – to proseand rhymingpoems –and he believesreality exists on the edge of perception.

HisMother and Father have been his best and greatest influences. Agnes Martin and Brice Marden’s workare amongthem in painting. In writing –Jack Kerouac, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Bukowski, Janet Frame, William Butler Yeats, and Emily Dickinson’s workare among them.

Damon Freed received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York Citywith honors. His M.F.A. is from Hunter College, City University of New York. Freed taught at two places for 10 years at the college level. His first year was in ’09 at the University of Central Missouri and then he began instruction at State Fair Community College the following year. Freed has studied with such luminaries as Jack Whitten, Marilyn Minter, Juan Sanchez, Sanford Wurmfeld and others!Among them are Tim Rollins, David Chow, Tobi Kahn, Lucio Pozzi, and Alice Aycock. He has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, Saint Louis, and Kansas City.

His poetry has been published by The Writer’s Place online, The Rye Whiskey Review, and The New York Parrot.Damon has been featured in The Wall Street International Online, Art Forum, Caesura Online Magazine, the Saint Louis Riverfront Times, and the Saint Louis Beacon, and the Sedalia Democrat among others.

In painting and writing, his inspirations are hismom and Dad, sister and brothers, and friends, mostly, and the people he meets in every direction.He has 13 books of poetry and is self-published. Go Forth!: Poems 2011-22 was published by World Inkers Printing and Publishing, 2022.It is out now and is an impressive full-lengthcollection of his poetry to this point of publications! This year, World Inkers Printing and Publishing released 46 Scary Good Poems by Damon Freed. A full-length book of poems.

Damon Freed may be reached at https://www.damonfreed.com or by emailing him to damonfreed@gmail.com.