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| Scott Thomas Outlar |
Chasing
After the Essence
New literary form Spiralism by Heath Brougher
“The
main purpose of Spiralism is to evoke an overall understanding of something: an
aura, an essence. It differs from Impressionism in that there are no
restrictions on the poems. As far as creative endeavors go, the only way to
Spiral, in my opinion, is outward. Also, the majority of Spiralist poems are
not to be read at a traditional pace but instead at top speed, like someone
quickly reading through prose or a paragraph in a book, all the while the
reader gleaning various phrases and pictures and thoughts and dreams which
serve to create an overall Aura which Spirals outward and only outward. For the
real Truth of the Universe [Multiverse?] cannot be better understood through
words, for words are manmade. An aura or an essence is much more easily
understandable because it is closer to Feeling, Emotion, the Luminiferous Ether
that spins within every Consciousness.”
The
paragraph quoted above is a brief excerpt taken from a manifesto that Heath
Brougher sent me recently after I asked him for more information concerning the
writing style/philosophy he has birthed into form called Spiralsim. The concept
he is manifesting is large and all-encompassing. The weight that comes with
coining any original idea in this life is heavy, but the beautifully balancing
aspect of Spiralism, much like in some theories of genesis, is that there is no
single spot in which the journey must begin or end. Indeed, it is creation
itself, and the expansion thereof, that matters most. The Big Bang is happening
everywhere all at once. There is no right or wrong answer, only the existential
search for deeper meaning. Above all, Brougher is on the hunt for the
ever-elusive Higher Truth. His instrument in such a pursuit is the art of
poetry. He performs this craft as well, if not better, than any other
contemporary writer you will come across.
Brougher’s
latest book, To Burn in Torturous
Algorithms, was released in January of 2018 through Weasel Press out of
Manvel, Texas. Copies of this groundbreaking collection are available here directly from the
publisher. Please do yourself a favor and get in on the ground floor of a
literary movement that is sure to exponentially spiral outward in the years and
decades ahead. My only warning before reading the book is this: be prepared to
feel a gentle tug of jealousy pull at your creative spirit. You’ll likely wind
up as I did, asking yourself after every poem: “Why in the name of all that is
holy didn’t I think of that first!”
To
close out this month’s column, I’d like to include a poem written as an ode to
Brougher’s technique. My first attempt pales in comparison to his own seasoned work
in this regard, but in the preface to his new book he challenges readers to take
their own leap of faith into Spiralism. We all have to start somewhere in life.
Why not at the edge of the earth? Selah
Reaching
Beyond
…;
spiral
out
beyond
containment,
beyond
constriction,
beyond
restrictions,
beyond
the veils
of
illusion
that
bind
our
broken minds
with
gilded chains
holding
back
the
path of progress,
the
process of evolution,
the
forward march
that
can set
the
initial spark
toward
renaissance
and
revolution
upon
the earth;
spiral
out
beyond
the limitations
of
what once
was
thought
to
exist
in
this temporal masquerade
of
purgatory induced
time
and space;
spiral
out
with
Brougher
to
find
that
the future
has
become imbibed
with
a heady drunkenness
of
creativity let loose
to
roam
in
spaces
of
higher truth
beyond
the earth;
…
Wow.
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