Selasi Nana Kofi Zikpi, published mononymously as Selasi, is a poet and speaker. He believes that literary poets should prioritise evoking thought just as much as they do emotion. He insists, that
‘the fullest of poetry will always be
the pleaser and the teacher’.
With his education and extensive interest in psychology, sociology, literature and philosophy, Selasi seeks to use his poetry, more so than to entertain, to remind readers of their higher selves—their selves of peace and still, fortitude—with the aid of unerring teachings of the ancients and by invoking what he claims is the undermined champion inside of our minds: Reason.
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Declamations of Century: Poetry for the Lovers and the Haters of Poetry
Poetry is and must be the combination; the necessary union of music and prose, born before each, born from each, and the sacred core of each. The higher purpose of poetry is to express the truth artfully; To be the bridge connecting philosophy to art, logic to aesthetics, science to intuition, reason to emotion. And the poet must be, more so than the voice, the expression of the voice.
Declamations of Century is a book of poems concerning ageless matters of existence and consciousness. Written with clarity of language as a priority, the poems in this book, despite the allusions and double meanings intrinsic to poetry, are each composed of language open to be understood and discerned by the common reader—Poetry should not be strictly exclusive to poets and poem enthusiasts. Just as truth benefits not only the seekers of truth, poetry should benefit and improve not only the seekers of poetry.
The contents of Declamations of Century are scrupulously arranged, so to have you submerge gradually into contemplation. Even so, to make you buoyant in thought so you ascend in contemplation. And in so doing, appreciating the primary purpose of poetry and mind.
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