Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
-Kahlil Gibran
About The Heart Drive Press:
Main influences and inspirations are multi-lingual and include: 1) the European existentialist literary movement, 2) the Italian hermeticism poetic movement, 3) American modernism and free-verse, 4) wisdom writing, 5) life.
Literary influences include but are not limited to (in no particular order) Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rumi, Kahlil Gibran, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mahatma Gandhi, Lao Tzu, Pablo Neruda, George Sand, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Eugenio Montale, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Salvatore Quasimodo, Hafiz, Dante Alighieri, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Giacomo Leopardi, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, Luigi Pirandello, William Blake, e.e.cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, John Keats, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Antonio Machado, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, Walt Whitman, W.B.Yeats, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Basho, Tagore Rabindranath, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard Cohen, Anaïs Nin, Efrain Huerta, Jaime Sabines, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, Jose Saramago, Carl G. Jung, George C. Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Homer, Plato, Sappho, Li Bai, Hippocrates, Hypatia of Alexandria, Maya Angelou, DH Lawrence, Canserbero, Immortal Technique, Tool, Tyler Knott Gregson, Michelle Tea, Andrea Balt, Nagarjuna, Milarepa, Vimalamitra, Chögyal Namkai Norbu Rinpoche, Acharya Malcolm, my Heart Tribe, and too many others to mention.
I bow in gratitude to the brave who don’t give up yet surrender gracefully to the all-ravaging nature of living a lifetime, composed of finding new losses for every gain.
Without the help of so many walking the line together, invisibly holding my hands, it would have taken me a much longer time to practice how to assimilate the constant ache of needing to comprehend the grief that remains behind the wake of the pain of all the tragedies growing up requires of the tiny mighty self. The further I go, the more it si obvious that compassion is intrinsic to understanding. Only through the integration of letting go, can we grow outside that shell of our self-importance.
We come and go so fast. To you, I dedicate my heartfelt words.
Sincerely,
–arya sunyata