NEW BOOK RELEASE: Color Me Pomegranate
The pomegranate, as a symbol and for its color, has historical meaning for women both in mythology and literature. Zayra's literary poetic collection, Color Me Pomegranate, travels through the many layers of mythical women turned into real women living these myths out in every day life. On the pages of this collection, we encounter Aphrodite, Medusa, Meda, Persphone, Athena, Inanna, Ishtar, Gaia, Sophia, Durga, Kali, Mary, The Black Madonna, Eve, Anne Sexton, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Kiki de Montpamasse, Lee Miller, Berthe Morisot, Joan of Arc and the Scarlet Woman in all vessels, in every woman's body. It is the fall and resurrection of all women within the mystical experiences, which are often times as full of suffering, as they are gritty, and soft on the emotional path toward the alchemy of self discovery, self acceptance and self love for the spiritual evolution and content of the feminine. The book ends in the rise of all women through the Goddess in a transfiguration: "I am SHE."
Book Review for Color Me Pomegranate:
"Zayra Yves' latest work "Color Me Pomegranate" is strictly for the serious seeker of wisdom, full of disturbing yet profound words and mind images. Written through the dark hem of the goddess, it stirs the soul and makes it awaken. The work is a bit like contemplating Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream" (1893), which haunts with the collective muteness and inner longing reflected in viewing it, for the sacred in all the profanity. It is a brave Jungian-style exploration of the soul, and resounds with the wisdom of Marion Woodman's writings on the transformation of the soul. This is a work of catharsis, piece after powerful piece, full of chaos and silent screams. Yet it closes with an affirmation and comes back out into the light of day. Pomegranates may have dark seeds, but they are red, full of passion. Zayra's passion urges the work on, and passion must be the driver through this kind of difficult work. What we know is that the world can't sit on Pandora's Box forever, because it will have its say, but we can choose to bring order to chaos in our own personal transformations, which is what this work does."
- Moni Roleff (author, holistic teacher and healer)
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