Publisher's Synopsis
The Lone Star State of Mind is a creative journey. It documents a personal mythological passage through time and space geographically, metaphorically and autobiographically. The book begins with a poem written in 1984 then jumps forward to 2006 and moves chronologically and sometimes in a non-linear fashion between a span of over twenty years. Journal entries, poetry, stories and essays illustrate an artistic vision focused on cultivating positive thinking skills as inspiration for both the reader and the writer. It filters experience through selectively editing a diary of documentation and poetic interpretation. Each ephemeral moment is captured in a few words that reflect a singular point of view; real life is alchemically transformed through a diamond prism of multifaceted metaphors that resonate as poetry and then return to the daily realistic account of the artist's actual life from the ordinary to the magical and back again. Paul L. Snelson, II grew up in Monahans, Texas. He moved to Saudi Arabia in 1981, graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1987, then from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in 1996. Currently he is working toward an MFA in Digital Art at the University of Texas at Dallas.
