Length2h 11m
About this audiobook
CANVAS: A Poetic Cinema Motion Archive is a journey through the mind of Vernon Snell, where memory becomes paint and lived experience becomes art. Through 30 layered Poetic Cinema pieces, Vernon explores loneliness, creativity, survival, Washington Heights, identity, money, power, temptation, culture, war, and the invisible battles taking place inside the human mind.
Each piece moves through multiple perspectives—Benson carries the raw emotional voice, Vernon examines what lies beneath it, the Curator widens the historical and cultural frame, and cinematic scenes transform words into images.
CANVAS is more than a collection of poetry. It is the portrait of a survivor discovering that everything he lived through left a color behind.
The page is the canvas. Memory is the paint. The mind is the gallery.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Health and Wellness
Length2 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copyright
20The Essence of Survival: Verses of a Lived Life
2A Note on This Edition
21A Poetic Testament
3I — THE ARTIST AS CANVAS
22Survival
4Canvas of the Soul
23Inner Battles: A Duel of Heritage
5Voices and Echoes
24Ode to the Sweet Bitterness of Life
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6Temptations and Mirrors
25III — VALUE, CHASE & THE MONEY SYSTEM
7Canvas Wars
26Stand Alone, Win
8Echoes and Shadows
27Winning Means It’s Over
9Spectrum of the Soul
28Chase Bankers’ Blues
10Symphony of the Hearth
29Chase to Give Back Blues
11Nightmares in Vivid Hues
30Lines Not Crossed
12Mind’s Brew
31Chasers of the Same
13Cerebral Symphony
32Chase in the Gold
14II — WAR, MEMORY & SURVIVAL
33Bankers’ Chase
15Echoes from Hill to Harlem
34IV — THE MAZE
16Echoes of the Mind
35Reviewers of Cheese
17In the Shadow of Wars
36Taxed in the Maze
18Echoes in the Shadows
37About the Author
19Voices of the Ghetto
38About Poetic Cinema
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