Andre's poems are imbued with music and atmosphere. Andre chooses his words like a weaver chooses threads carefully blending them together to create poems that are soft, surprising and satisfying, both listener and reader transported into a space that is normally beyond words. His poems like his music convey artistry that is capable of risk, modulation and powerful cadence. Judith Adams, PoetAndre is a romantic surrealist, possessed by profound imagery and animated by deep curiosity. His poems, tempered by the Pacific Northwest, its vistas, its people, its heartbreaks, like the man himself, his fingers on the strings, offer their sweet melodies and gallant flourishes to warm your nights. David Ossman, Writer, actorHe writes with no strings attached and plays each word that sings as dispatched. His two sides of the poet's tree bears fruit that drops free. David L. Laing, AuthorSlender Gods - There are many life topics explored in these poems: The book is divided into four chapters, Light, Love, Shadow andStory. I dive into the the many sides of love, from the blissful tothe pain and loss of love. The moon might possibly appear in eighty percent of the poems, my quest for the mystical and the realms ofdream is represented in the first chapter, Light. Chapter three, Shadow, covers the search for meaning and comfort, the attempts at dissolving angst, writings that have come to me in times of navigating darkness.In chapter four, Story, many themes are covered, from divorce totrain travel in Europe, to performing classical guitar at a prestigious art reception, a tribute to the writers of time, a surreal depiction of the handsand music of a fantastic jazz pianist, and more.Many of the poems are very new, written in the past three years onWhidbey Island, while the rest are from past seasons of my life.I have enjoyed spending these months during the 2020 pandemicorganizing this long overdue project. It's been very meaningful tome. There are several dedications to people in my life who havepassed, including my parents. There are also dedications to longtime friends, lovers, artists, my children, and grandchildren.My occupation is music, composition and performance thus I approach poetry in somewhat of a musical way. I like to invite the reader or listener to get lost in their inner world; places of dream and longing. I feel like the best poetry involves words that delve into the open realms of the non-verbal, words that invite you to view them from many sides, and words that ask you to return again and again for those moments of fulfillment, surprise, and insight. Writing has always been a mirror for me, a place of subtle shifts into solace and healing.I hope these poems can be the same for you as a reader. Andre FerianteAndre is one of my favorite poets and musicians. In Andre's hands his music and poetry contain the multitudes Whitman wrote about. Andre trained as a young man with Andrés Segovia, the brilliant Spanish guitarist who influenced and inspired the world with his music. This early training provided Andre with a catapult that has enabled his hands and heart to write and perform his own distinctive and leaping music and poetry. When playing music he loves to improvise and what is poetry if not the use of language in the highest improvisational sense?The first time I encountered Andre's poetry I became moonstruck and was reminded of the powerful language of Rumi and Whitman. Step through the moon gate that Andre has sculpted in these poems and feel the awakening that lies in these fields that contain the multitudes. Joni Takanikos, Poet