ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ARTIST

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ARTIST Mary Elizabeth Kibler

Where Image Abides is the black and white edition of Corpus Omphalos, Poetry and Art Collection 2012, a selection of 232 poems from five poetry collections (Universe, Nuclear Rice, Nutshelled, One God Per Pot, and Drones Don’t Die), song lyrics, new pieces written up until the end of 2012, and features 36 art reproductions. Mary Kibler’s finesse with language, aphoristic wit, and rapport with history as well as the zeitgeist of our times is apparent with fresh takes on traditional forms to post-modern free-verse appeal. Lush and atmospheric, her voice revels in flowing truth-speak nowhere near the usual fare; her style, a metaphysics of high diction; her artwork, just as savvy compelling skill, imagery, and concepts.

Degreed in Anthropology and Geology, with fieldwork in Southwest Archaeology, developed courses and taught Primitive and Comparative Religion, post graduate work in Psychology, Philosophy, and English, an ‘eternal student of everything’ with an ever growing library, a martial artist of Japanese and Chinese systems, herbalist and organic gardener, a criminal investigator for a decade, writer and literary editor, musician/sound tech/producer, commercial graphic, watercolor, and oil artist, and life in Canada and the US, to be brief, lend her works a novel overview penned here in tight, poignant verse. Besides writing non-fiction and poetry, she’s an avid short story writer of mainly paranormal adventure, sci-fi, and horror genres.

She’s run a small press, a literary and technical editing, publishing, and web development & design business, Gothage Press, and an Indy music recording and commercial graphic master production studio, SolidSpace Studio, since 1984. Mary is known as a “musician’s musician”. As a performing and recording artist, she’s written, recorded, and produced 24 albums of her music, thus far, including works from live, solo, various stage ensembles and bands, studio jams, recordings and programming midi, white light, meditation, and experimental music; a blues, rock, alternative, jazz, and folk musician, sound tech and music editor, from reel-to-reel analogue multi-tracking to digital, she’s also designed and built several sound-proof recording studios. She opened Tulips Recording in 1983 and changed her studio business name to SolidSpace Studio in 1984, a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist/pianist, hand and trap drummer, also plays mandolin, harmonica/chromonica, cornet, and native flute, Mary is a vocalist as well as composer and lyricist.

In 1992 she self-published her music/harmonic theory and charting handbook styled for fret board musicians, Musician’s Workbench, The Backroom Charting Method, known for her work on modes, scale theory and methods, and is a handbook that has been widely duplicated and circulated. Her lyric verse is engaging and characteristically has hook and bite. Lyrics for “Stop Wasting My Time” (from the poem “Quit Wasting My Time”), recorded by Charles Watson & Hollow Council, 2008, Platinum Plus, Nashville, TN, Alternative rock album, Time for Change, was record breaking at #1 on Billboard internet air play for 54 weeks straight.

Mary Kibler’s art work is eclectic. The art reproduced in this collection include some from graphic studies for what she refers to as a “next batch” of oil paintings, concept art, digital graphic art, photo-art from her photography, illustrations from various projects, as well as detail clips from digital scans of painted canvases. She makes her stretchers and paints large canvases, has a flare for figure art, live models, and has gone through many phases of genre, palette, and style, including theater set design and co-organizing and running city-wide Festival of the Arts events. Recognized in 1976 as an oil artist in Canada, she has oil paintings in many private collections around the world.

She and husband currently reside in the Superstition foothills of Arizona, own Alynmeri Enterprises, L.L.C., and have sponsored the Annual SolidSpace Music Festival, Sunday’s Cool Jam sessions, music and art competitions and showings, community theater, and other Fine Arts events and projects. Mary’s production name is Emmikai (MEK), also published and signed artist as M. E. Kibler, and some know her as Freebird. Thank you, my friend, for publishing this book of poetry and art for all of us.

With pleasure, Gustave Mundi