Youth Program Volunteer Launches Literary Projects
Anthony Colon, also known as Spizzarri, began attending OPALGA’s Spectrum drop-in group in 2003 at the suggestion of friends. Once he was no longer in the Spectrum age range, Anthony helped to create TGIQ, our drop-in group for adults who are age 21 and over. Anthony has recently published two books, and I asked him to tell us about those books.
Empower: Tell us about your new books.
Anthony: The first one is titled Zero & the Liquid Vein Memory: Poetry from the Inner Cerebrum. This volume of poetry is uplifting, real, and drones enchanting, raw emotion. Like lyrics from any obscure and serene album. Visually stunning, scintillating, and at times biting like unseen teeth from an unknown vista of a piece by Salvador Dali or a tranquil scene from Claude Monet, these pieces will touch your heart as well as your soul.
The second one is titled The Resurrection of the Hearts Eye. This short-story collection is filled with beautiful, surreal dreamscapes of non-realities that ponder and explore the trials and tribulations of human existence. Of the complex errors and solutions inherent in the process of what it means to be human. The positive and the negative and the fusion of the two. We all can learn something about ourselves from these pieces.
Anthony has donated signed copies of both books to the OPALGA lending library, and they are available for purchase from Anthony’s Web site at http://www.spizzarri.com.
