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Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/zzbaggins
born
January 26, 1960
gender
male
place of birth
Colorado Springs
website
genre
Poetry, Nonfiction, Arts & Photography
influences
Tothill, Frost, Jong, Carver, Shakespeare, Forche, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, Kerouac, Gerbig, Morrison, Neruda, Vonnegut, Irving, Thompson, Keats, Thomas, Williams, Brooks, Tolkein, The Beatles ... and all those other poets, writers and artists I've known over the years.
member since
July 2008
about this author
Jeffrey (A.K.A. ZZ Baggins) started writing poetry and taking photographs over thirty years ago while living in South Africa. He is a former Chicago saloon poet. He is the founder of The Chicago Poetry Agenda and a former active board member of The Tulsa Arts and Humanities Literary Arts Council. A former member of The Greater Dallas Community of Writers, he has conducted and participated in numerous poetry workshops and feature readings in the U.S.
His poetry, visual arts and photographs have been published around the world in numerous print and online journals, as well as five anthologies. He has published seven books of poetry: Fear of Heights (1984, Spahr-Summers Publications), The Cherry Poems (2006, Cherry Publications), i...more
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dances before me
a surge of raw
electric current
nothing contained by
a membrane of
glass no
vessel to speak of
no hesitation
no restraint
unbridled heat
no doubt
or sleight of hand
just hunger the
deep and dark hungry
of the earth
the red
the yellow
and electric
and real
...more
a surge of raw
electric current
nothing contained by
a membrane of
glass no
vessel to speak of
no hesitation
no restraint
unbridled heat
no doubt
or sleight of hand
just hunger the
deep and dark hungry
of the earth
the red
the yellow
and electric
and real
...more
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i believe by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2009 |
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Fear of Heights by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1984 |
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The Cherry Poems by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2006 |
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jet streaks and power lines by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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broke before love shack by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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odaroloc by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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fifteen minutes by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Step into the Light: Poems from Recovery by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992 |
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Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1991 |
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The Five Wisdom Energies: A Buddhist Way of Understanding Personalities, Emotions, and Relationships (Paperback) by Irini Rockwell |
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir (Hardcover) by Natalie Goldberg |
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"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."
— Pearl S. Buck
— Pearl S. Buck
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"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
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life
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
"...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Stories of Anton Chekhov)
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Stories of Anton Chekhov)
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love
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"Even floors have a plan."
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— Catherine Sasanov
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Thanks for adding me to your friends list Jeffrey! If you do get a chance to read my novel Paper Boats, I would love to have your views!
Melanie wrote: "Thanks for the recommendation.
I like your poems very much, thanks for sharing."
thanks for the feedback melanie. i'm glad you liked it.
jeff
Hi Jeffery!
From your bio I'm surprised we haven't bumped into each other, or maybe we have & don't realise it!
Jim Cherry
Wonderful to see you here on Goodreads. You will love it! It is soooo addicting, but in a very good way (grin). Much love to you and magickal blessings!
xoxo
Laura Stamps
Author of Paranormal Romance and Erotica Novels
http://www.LauraStamps.blogspot.com (to read excerpts from my novel series)
http://laura-stamps8.livejournal.com (my naughty Author Blog/updated daily)
