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Timothy Hodor | Literary Arts

Similar to music and drawing, he studied form, structure, and the basics before developing his own style. In poetry, “I strive for fresh imagery and multi-layering, creating an invisible painting and inaudible music effect at the start that evolves into living pictures and sounds.“ He’s the author of 5 poetry books and some 900 poems. For prose, “I tend towards a narrative style for its timeless nature and take the reader through surrealistic, dystopian, or afterlife settings.“ He has authored 3 novels.

Melodisches und harmonisches Neuland im klassischen Ozean

Naxos Germany

"Die Kompositionen stellen eine echte Bereicherung für die zeitgenössische
Musik dar, bereits den Beginn der CD (gemstones)halte ich für sehr gelungen"

Gerhard Senft, Professor an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

It is amazing that there is such variety of moods and techniques….
Timothy Hodor`s pieces are immediately understandable and well written; people will want to hear more

Hedi Ballantyne‑Stoehr, Choir Director and daughter of Richard Stoehr, music theory teacher of Karajan, Leinsdorf, Barber, Bernstein, etc) (1927‑2018)

Captivating romantic piano music colorfully outlined in melody and classical structure. (About Cascade)

Wundervolle CD (“gemstones”) mit romantischen Klaviermelodien

Eurodisc

Abwechslungsreiche und phantasievolle zeitgenössische Klaviermusik als Hörgenuß

Herbert Lederer, Organist Schubertkirche
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Published Works

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Online Books

The Odd of Sea

Homer's age-old tale is retold in a manner that bespeaks elegance, comedy, tragedy, and poetry. A war hero whose silvery image tarnishes, Jules Lissy returns "home" to find that Penny, his unfaithful wife, has entered into a life-long relationship with a fellow islander. At the end of The Odd of Sea, Jules Lissy comes to outgrow revenge and returns to the sea, with his ship, with his mast, his "moveable tree of life".

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The Chemical Element Campaign

The Chemical Element Campaign replays the 2004 USA presidential campaign. In this satirical, twisted version, the politicians, cabinet members, and TV and radio announcers are represented by chemical elements. Bush goes as Boron; Kerry, Osmium; Schwarzenegger, Tungsten. Here, time, history, and people are juxtaposed in a humorous, entertaining story, which shows what a farce the polls, the speeches, the media, the press, the debates, and the politicians can be.

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Panoramic Earth Tones

Illustrated poetry offering a full and unobstructed view in every direction of the world, encompassing the boundaries of geography, culture, and wildlife. Panoramic Earth Tones captures the heart and soul of men and women who color the earth human. This collection is fascinatingly shaped and well-rounded like the earth itself.

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Published Works

Tap Dancing to the Sunrise

Poems about the poet's mother: the impressions that unfolded after her death, and a few subjects and sights that captured her interest throughout her life.

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ISBN-13: 978-0954476489
ISBN: 0954476484

Concentric Lives & other poems

Selected for The Mount Olive College Press Apollo Series, which "reflects the pilgrimage of the masculine soul in search of wholeness, warmth, and expression." A collection grouped into three parts: nature, memories, and places.

ISBN-13: 978-1880994580
ISBN: 1880994585

The Crowd of Time

Twenty years of new and selected poems huddled together, touching human concerns in a delicate manner.

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ISBN-13: 978-0954476489
ISBN: 0954476484

Hours in Orchestration

Early poems written under the influence of classical music. This verse includes nuances of rhymes and alliteration.

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ISBN-13: 978-3900434083
ISBN: 3900434085

The Recluse

Uprooted from a peaceful habitat, an outsider becomes the subject of an inhuman society in which greed, conformity, and manipulation prevail. The attempt of a man to escape from the laboratory of a superficial world.

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ISBN-13: 978-3900434663
ISBN: 3900434662

Poetry

The Rag Man in the Vatican

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Like Michelangelo
In the Sistine Chapel,
I lie on my back,
Trying to connect God to man:
Sometimes I feel an arm’s length from God,
Yet my scaffolding’s shaky. One day,
I paint smooth strokes of religion and afterlife;
The next, my tools undergo transformations.
I lose hold of faith and the future,
But continue to work—to paint over
Or to touch up my beliefs.
My whole life, I’ve drained myself,
Reaching to unite human fingers of concrete
To immortal palms of abstraction.
I turn away from the ceiling.
My mind conceives a picture on the wall:
It’s the Last Judgment.
God has already dug
His fingers through my soul.
My face hangs like tattered dough.

There’s a rag of time
In Rembrandt’s face,
And a pair of injured eyes,
Two bloodstains of poverty.
A man paints with a mirror.
In the reflection,
We see how darkness hurts,
And how light opens wounds.

The Self-Portait, 1652

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The Concussion

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A saxophone player improvises
In front of Stephansdom.
His solos crisscross
Staves of tourists.
Nearby, a violinist
Plays a sonata.
Jazz collides with Mozart
Between the ears of air.
The rest of the day
I hear an insane wind
Talking to itself,
Cursing the sun,
Snorting the clouds,
Spitting,
Raining,
Raining.

A shaded statue of Brahms
Faces the Musikverein.
Near him, a drunk
Sits under a sycamore.
There’s no music between the men—
Only nature groping: blind sunshine
Trying to walk through the trees.

The Three Figures in Resselpark

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Beethoven Between the Rain

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The Savoysches Damenstift
Separates me from a sonata.
Sounds wade through the wind.
A man comes out of the water.
A gust of silence
Blows him back
Into a sea of ovals
Clinging to measured waves.

I’m on Colfax Street,
Held up by a train.
The boxcars pass.
They look like coffins.
I make a u-turn,
Look in the rearview mirror,
See that the line
Of death is gone.
A railroad gate goes up,
Tells me the way is clear
To the house where Buzz lived,
Where his two forty-year-old guitars now warp
In a basement where jazz once danced
And made wallflowers out of the dampness.

The Last Jam Session

(in memory of Bradford B. Hinkle)

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Cascade Etude Loop

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Gemstones

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Triptych

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Fugal Contemplations

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In Search of Quintessence

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My Soul-Mate,
That’s You

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I see your eyes and deep inside. Now I see time and life in you.
I like your mind, a soul that chimes. I travel high, higher than sky’s ocean.
My soul-mate, that’s you, how true: the same wavelength in good and bad times.
Love goes astray, has tolls we pay. The signs say exit, enter here.
It’s hard alone—roads, no shoulder. But I will find a highway with no toll.
Hearts by-pass, trial and error, beats ev’ry day. The soul’s here to stay.

Poets compare you—summer’s day they say, but you are uncounted hours.
There’s no place for you on a clock.
Time does stand still for those hearts like yours, and you give me the seasons.
Love the way you grow in time. And life—love you blossoming in life’s vase.
Cuddle you my thornless love, my matchless, timeless flower.
No measured scents. Fragrant essence in snow or sun.
Life is in you—ripe seeds sow meadows hand in hand and color land.
There‘s a life to decorate fields and dreams. Rose with no wilt. No stem’s a stilt.
Bloom life in days. Petal sun-rays.

Poets Compare You

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Hear it sung by Maria Szepesi
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