Author Description

Review In these poems, Raye explore themes of unrequited love, death, regret and the ability to move forward with one's life despite it all. He combines a wide variety of cultural references, from author Edith Wharton to traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, with offbeat imagery (comparing the condition of being static, for example, to a "mountain kissing the sky"), which keeps the collection from becoming predictable. --Kurkus Reviews Ron M. Raye's poetry collection, Island Under the Sea, offers lyric ruminations arranged in seven sections. The poems vary dramatically in the vividness of their imagery and effectiveness of their tone. The poet is capable of wonderfully sensuous imagery and prosody, such as "My fingers tied to yours,/While kissing you over a bowl of/fisherman's broth and "Night sauntering on, shadows thin/And all the while black rain keeps falling…" Here, the speaker presents scenes using fresh, precise diction that readers can witness through their senses. --Blueink Review About the Author Ron Raye is the pen name for Ron Honda. He was born in Barbados, emigrated to the US in 1980 and subsequently became a citizen. He is a graduate of the CertHE writing program at the University of Oxford, Kellogg College. some of these poems were written at Oxford while others were written in Guanzhou, China, Fukuoka, Japan and Cebu Island, Philippines.