Post by bernadettela116 on May 31, 2013 22:07:30 GMT -5
Through many trials and tribulations, Shane Koyczan has emerged from the darkest depressions into the beauty of poetry. Born and raised in Canada by his grandparents, Koyczan has shown the world how he can “describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moments before it’s about to fall” and does. He does not hold back as he explores the side of himself he has tried to shove down so far that he “get(s) altitude sickness just for standing up for (him)self”. His “To This Day” project has become the anti-bully brigade dedicated to saving the “hungry underdogs” that could run this world if they had confidence. He has won awards for his spoken word performances with and without his band, The Short Story Long.
Koyczan seamlessly melds together the love, lust, and pain of everyday life. The “weird and freakish” are his specialty and he parrots the fact that we are not alone. He is in touch with his emotions on such a universal level that it can be awkward. He opens up his life full of “oddities juggling depression and loneliness” to the world so that they too, many not feel alone. He banks his career on the idea that “we are not what we were called”. His life was full of “bruises and broken teeth” and scars that burned his heart. Koyczan’s “balancing act” of a life from feeling broken to whole is ingrained in the truth of his depression. “We rarely see the horror in” his works full of pain in suffering because they are presented so beautifully we almost wish it could have happened to us. There are no scars to sacred to vouch for and no stories too tough to tell, he tells them all. Val McDermid, author of The Grave Tattoo, said of Koyczan, “It’s a rare poet who can make his audience laugh and cry; this is a writer who will break your heart then heal it.”
People see their struggles and their healings in all the words Koyczan say and left unsaid. There is a beauty in the pauses that create the illusion that “you are not alone” and that there is more to be done. There are no bounds by which Koyczan is restricted in his storytelling abilities because his words “have a skyline” that can be surpassed by “the weed growing through the cracks”. As the suffering of the world is experienced, it is immediately healed by the “first-aid” of Shane Koyczan.
Koyczan seamlessly melds together the love, lust, and pain of everyday life. The “weird and freakish” are his specialty and he parrots the fact that we are not alone. He is in touch with his emotions on such a universal level that it can be awkward. He opens up his life full of “oddities juggling depression and loneliness” to the world so that they too, many not feel alone. He banks his career on the idea that “we are not what we were called”. His life was full of “bruises and broken teeth” and scars that burned his heart. Koyczan’s “balancing act” of a life from feeling broken to whole is ingrained in the truth of his depression. “We rarely see the horror in” his works full of pain in suffering because they are presented so beautifully we almost wish it could have happened to us. There are no scars to sacred to vouch for and no stories too tough to tell, he tells them all. Val McDermid, author of The Grave Tattoo, said of Koyczan, “It’s a rare poet who can make his audience laugh and cry; this is a writer who will break your heart then heal it.”
People see their struggles and their healings in all the words Koyczan say and left unsaid. There is a beauty in the pauses that create the illusion that “you are not alone” and that there is more to be done. There are no bounds by which Koyczan is restricted in his storytelling abilities because his words “have a skyline” that can be surpassed by “the weed growing through the cracks”. As the suffering of the world is experienced, it is immediately healed by the “first-aid” of Shane Koyczan.