Sutras of Tiny Jazz by Harry Edgar Palacio

Sutras of Tiny Jazz is a collection of prose poems that explores love, heartbreak, family and the music familiar to the poet. This full length book follows Harry Edgar Palacio‘s Chapbook Ambrosia and contains many previously published poems from several magazines and journals such as Blindness published by Tule Review.

The Sutras of Tiny Jazz begins with a poem that describes the silence and songs of the frenetic mind.  How does one begin to hear the nuances of jazz as a reference to a disorder.  There in the seclusion of ones room the prose poems of Harry Palacio unravels.  Many of the poems collected in this full length book have been published in magazines and journals. Harry is working on another chapbook and full length book.  Poems such as Blindness which interweave Jorge Luis Borges and his father suffering from Glaucoma and It’s Funny What the Fuchsia Sky Can Do an account of giving a cigarette to a pastor and the act of searching for spirituality.  What we find in the following short prose poems is a mosaic of observations and the psyche working itself into a jazz solo. Sutras of Tiny Jazz is an abstract metaphor for schizoaffective disorder.  The way the author perceives his daily tasks, the distinction between real and unreal, love and heartbreak, family and loss that becomes the nuances of the poems.