|
|
|  | | East by West
A humorous yet profound 'collaboration' between myself, Bright Cloud, a renegade Budhist monk from Bhamo, Burma who enjoys observing the nuns undress in their 'sacred nakedness before God' from his perch in the great Banyan tree; and our Translator, all of whom are given a preface. As I mentioned, though funny and even absurd, their are points if true profundity, the seriousness escaping, as do our writers, from pages one would least expect.
At first an Audio-Book, then a paperback, this is one of my personal favorites, not because of anything tangible . . . Not just because of the absurd situation either, but because it was so enjoyable and liberating to try to bridge east and west, and to watch the characters write themselves.
I hope someday to give copies away -- there are many quotes from obscure, extant mystical texts which may help in a greater understanding between peoples.
Example: A Hindu greeting: "I salute the Divinity in you." Another, as God's first utterance: "I am One and wish to be Many." Proving | |  | | Leaving Blue Mountains
A 112 pages, 5.25 X 8 quality paperback, full color cover. An attractive physical article. You can judge the contents. Thank you.
THE ARTIST
Her palette almost empty,
she seeks what she has sought
all along:the formless, the form. | |  | | Nameless Traveler (memoir of an American poet)
Adventure story and spiritual autobigraphy as well as an authentic exposition of a writer's development, encompassing prison, addiction, living the life of a fugitive and mysterious encounters with poetry and grace.
I would sit in the day room in the half-lotus position, my head against the concrete wall, meditating. One day, as I settled into the focus, I was seized by the strangeness of a prisoner finding freedom under such conditions. I realized that a prisoner was merely an objective thing, a number, a fact, while a free man could not be perceived. He was, after all, a nameless traveler.
Added to Literary Leaps and the recipient of many good reviews. Can be ordered at Amazon.com Barnesand Nobles, etc... Or through me. | |  | | Sleepers in Translation
The best of 25 years of my Poetry, in 3 sections -- long, lyrical poems, to miniatures...
SLEEPERS IN TRANSLATION:
My belief is that 'The Purpose of Art is to Awaken'. I try to remember this, and reached a new level with this project. I lived near San Carlos, the Apache reservation, and received a poem there....My job is to listen.
The book is 6 X 9, perfect bound, attractive, 125 pages, professional cover; with many new poems to clearly show where I am trying to go with my art.
| |  | | When the Song Left the Sea
A story of loss, love and redemption.
Our main character, Hector Martin, nearing sixty, watches the great Gray whale’s ancient migratory patterns, drinking and brooding on an unsatisfactory life, while contemplating his own deep-seated need for a sense of home, leaving his young son’s raising to his sister, a complex and lonely surrogate mother. As Hector (both father and son abandoned by a young, wild and troubled ‘wife’) wanders the beaches and examines what seems to be an illusory, nearly uninhabited life, we come to the story with a tenderness as honest as a father’s “I love you” or a sad, neglected child’s first troubling que |
|
|
|
World As Refuge
by Chiemi
|
 The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow. |
Member BookAds
|
|
|
|
