About the Author. . .

Chris C. Canton was born in Long Island, New York and raised in
Northern Virginia. After finishing school, Canton moved to Florida for six
years, then relocated to Austin, Texas for eighteen years. During that time,
he served for six years with the Texas State Guard in a military police
battalion, and left in the rank of Staff Sergeant. He worked as a graphic
artist in wallcovering design for the RV and Manufactured Housing
industry. Subsequently, his company was bought out and he was
transferred to Elkhart Indiana in 2001, where he is currently living and
working.

Canton also runs a publishing company, called Starlight Press, in Elkhart,
and is the author of two books of poetry and a novel. His poems have
appeared in a dozen journals and publications throughout the country,
including the online websites www.forpoetry.com, run by poet/editor
Jaqueline Marcus, www.sourgrapesnewsletter.com, and www.poetry.com.
Canton has book signings on the following dates in Elkhart, IN:  
May 14, 2005  Java Jungle     June 18, 2005  Walnut Trails

A description of Blonde--A Quest for the Truth of Color by Chris C. Canton
appears below.

Featured Book:   Blonde--A Quest for the Truth of Color
ISBN: 0-9752541-2-X    Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$12.00
   1 (574) 849-2551

Other books by this author:
Winter, While Walking, Collected Poems
ISBN: 0-9752541-0-3    Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$12.00

Sergeant Major
ISBN:  0-9752541-1-1   Publisher:  Starlight Press     Price:$17.00

Sources for books by this author:  
Direct from the author - Chris C. Canton, Starlight Press, 1804-13 Visscher Drive
Elkhart, IN 46514, (574) 849-2551   E-mail: ccharles1@comcast.net
Also - Java Jungle, 5230 Beck Drive, Elkhart, IN   46516; and www.bookwire.com.

Blonde: A Quest for the Truth of Color by Chris C. Canton
- - Bowker's Recommended List


Book Description

Blonde– A Quest for the Truth of Color represents Chris C. Canton’s
second book of poems. In this collection, the theme is representative of
color and how its meaning relates to modern American society. Canton
questions the legitimacy of certain colors as to their suggested meaning
such as the color white. Often understood as that which is pure and
innocent or clean and sterile, is it not sometimes used as a
facade to mask the harshness or cruelty of that which lies just
underneath its surface? In the poem entitled, "Whitewashing a Memory,"
Canton makes a metaphoric comparison between a difficult
love relationship with a beautiful woman and that of the snows of an
Indiana cornfield, or the snowfalls of winter in northern Virginia where
the poet was raised. Sometimes purity or goodness is best admired on its
surface or from the distance; removed from the harshness of what may be
underneath.

In another poem, entitled "Reading You", which was published in the
poetry journal Write On!, Canton shows appreciation and great
admiration for a woman in the same manner of speaking as that of a great
novel he cannot put down; one for which he prefers there to be more pages
left to go than those which have been read, despite the passage of time.
In the poem entitled "Silence of the Music," reference is made of the
color of cabernet sauvignon; of its intensity of feeling and spirit as well as
the white wall that supports a finely-tuned acoustic guitar; one that
simply stands on its own merits without shadow or color behind it. The
absence of the color green on the trees outside is meant to illustrate the
poet’s longing for life to be full again; for the spring, when warmth
returns, and as such, a return of desire to lift the guitar from its
stand and strum it back to life, coloring the world with music once again.





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