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July 18, 2009
Review Essay on "The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carlos Ruiz Zafón through his international bestseller, The Shadow of the Wind, will find it difficult to avoid comparing it to any follow-up to the novel. Where Zafón's latest release in English, The Angel's Game is concerned, that is both a good thing and a not-so-good thing. It is also inevitable because page by page and chapter by chapter, ...
July 8, 2009
Birthday 2009: My Cosmic-Poet Beard in this Fifty-Second Year
Several years ago I began to compose biopoems to mark my birthday because this genre seemed to lend itself best to capturing the different layers and nuances of a creative individual's life. For me, those layers are comprised of objective factual biography, interior symbolic representations of that biography, the various works produced by the individual author, and public perception or ...
July 2, 2009
They Came from Cyberspace: Five Twitter Tweets
I was very much relieved recently when both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Johnny Depp admitted to hearing something go "Twitter-Twitter Tweet-Tweet," like some Vulcan canary singing for its supper out in the depths of cyberspace, but didn't have the faintest idea what it might be. Their public admission, I felt, placed me in very good company indeed. ...
June 26, 2009
To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson's Moccasins
You probably can't read the words in the note next to the accompanying photo of Michael Jackson, but they were handwritten by the singer himself during the mid 1990s when he was constantly on tour and just as constantly a subject of much public ridicule and condemnation. This note was composed on hotel stationery and, complete with original spellings, grammar, and format, reads as follows: ...
To Walk in Michael Jackson's Moccasins
You probably can't read the words in the note next to the accompanying photo of Michael Jackson, but they were handwritten by the singer himself during the mid 1990s when he was constantly on tour and just as constantly a subject of much public ridicule and condemnation. This note was composed on hotel stationery and, complete with original spellings, grammar, and format, reads as follows: ...
June 23, 2009
The Quotable You
Within the annals of literary history there are a number of volumes in which virtually every page crackles with quotable wisdom, creative intensity, and brilliant style. But for those of us who have yet to pen canon-dominating masterworks of such magnitude --or even for those who have but then found their achievement overlooked by CNN-- we may nevertheless possibly have produced works that ...
June 17, 2009
The Poetic Synergy of Shared Creativity
For the past almost two decades, I have found myself frequently inspired by the work of artist Luther E. Vann, so much so that essays and poetry derived from meditations on his metaphysical paintings and sculpture eventually helped produce the book ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love. Last summer (2008) thousands of visitors to the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, ...
June 12, 2009
Part 2 (A Juneteenth Special): Healing and Remembrance in America
The following is presented in honor of Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration of the celebration that dates back to June19, 1865, when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned for the first time about the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued to free them two years earlier. They decided that was a very good reason for a party and generations have kept it going every year ...
Part 1 (A Juneteenth Special): Remembrance and Healing in America
The following is presented in honor of Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration of the celebration that dates back to June19, 1865, when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned for the first time about the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued to free them two years earlier. They decided that was a very good reason for a party and generations have kept it going every ...
June 8, 2009
In the Company of These Pages
I've been lucky enough and survived long enough to share pages, via such outlets as anthologies and magazines, with some fairly extraordinary company, including luminous folks like Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Sean "Puffy" Combs, the singer Maxwell, Eugene Redmond, Kalamu ya Salaam, Susan L. Taylor , John Edgar Wideman, Tiger Woods, and quite a few others I greatly admire and respect. ...
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