Travis Lee Bullock

The Phoenix That Rose From Water (B&W) Travis Lee Bullock

Have you ever undergone a metamorphosis? A change that rewired the workings of your own self perception? The Phoenix That Rose From Water: The Vocal Booth Chronicles II gives us a glimpse into the inner psychological shaping of a persona whose complexities are not easily resolved. While literary epic journeys employ the use of a series of settings to showcase a character's changes, Travis uses the reader's state of mind and plane of existence as the primary setting through while we can clearly see the illumination of character shifts. The character lands the reader immediately into the realm of Hell known as Purgatory, but in dire search of Paradise. Reacting to the world through symbolic interactionism, Travis analyzes how his state of being has been influenced by society, and what essential components of himself exist only as his creation. Though his reflections are based largely in realms beyond this world, stretches of his journey are based in the sociopolitical geography of North Carolina and along the East Coast. As the circuit through which the earth and spiritual realm coexist in a continual current, Travis boldly questions himself in his relation to his sense of self, women, and state of living in a racially oppressive society. Only a phoenix could arise from the journey of change upon which the author embarks in this book of poetry that will keep you reading to experience the radical blooming of a man, a love, a spirit.