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Take a Deep Breath: Living With Uncertainty
In uncertain times people turn to uncertain means. This is a book of poetry and art, of fables and philosophies aimed at the pandemic of crisis anxiety so many of us are going through right now in our daily lives and in our inner spaces. We are all of us and each of us in this together. The sciences provide remedies but so do the arts. The ancient Egyptians wrote curative words on fragments of papyrus to feed their burnt ashes to the afflicted. Lacking morphine, Walt Whitman read verses to fallen soldiers on the battlefields of the first Civil War. At their best, the right words are more than therapeutic, they can be curative. Take a Deep Breath emulates this ritual here in administrating remedies for living in these times of crisis, in living with uncertainty. “…in dark and mendacious times we need poetry because its careful, precise way with language is a form of truth-telling.” Amit Majmudar, The New Yorker“Igor takes you into the guts of the pandemic and gives you a tour of the struggles and trials of the everyday environment of the virus that is stalking this dystopian pandemic world of the year 2020. Wide-ranging, he takes you from trans-global to the nightly news of the day that is rocketing past at roller coaster speed, pure emotive emotions so personal that it makes you sit back and wonder at the writing here and what you have just read”. – Chris Vannoy - US Beat Poet Laureate 2019
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Published February 6, 2021
About the author
Igor Goldkind
9 books272 followersNative San Diegan Igor Goldkind is an author, educator, and producer of advanced media technology innovations. At the age of 14, Goldkind served as a volunteer Science Fiction Coordinator for the now wildly popular San Diego Comic-Con. It was in this capacity that he met Ray Bradbury, whom he asked for advice about becoming a writer.
After living and working in Europe for 30 years, he returned to San Diego in 2014 to care for his demented mother and see her to the valley beyond. In 2015, his project IS SHE AVAILABLE? published by Chameleon broke ground in combining Poetry, Comics, Jazz, and Animation.
His second work, Take a Deep Breath – Living With Uncertainty is a unique collection of fully illustrated poetry, fables, and philosophies, a book aimed at the pandemic of crisis anxiety so many of us are living through.
“Igor takes you into the guts of the pandemic and gives you a tour of the struggles and trials of the everyday environment. He takes you from trans-global to the nightly news of the day that is rocketing past at roller coaster speed, pure emotive emotions so personal that it makes you sit back and wonder at the writing here and what you have just read”. – Chris Vannoy - US Beat Poet Laureate 2019
https://takeadeepbreath.one
After living and working in Europe for 30 years, he returned to San Diego in 2014 to care for his demented mother and see her to the valley beyond. In 2015, his project IS SHE AVAILABLE? published by Chameleon broke ground in combining Poetry, Comics, Jazz, and Animation.
His second work, Take a Deep Breath – Living With Uncertainty is a unique collection of fully illustrated poetry, fables, and philosophies, a book aimed at the pandemic of crisis anxiety so many of us are living through.
“Igor takes you into the guts of the pandemic and gives you a tour of the struggles and trials of the everyday environment. He takes you from trans-global to the nightly news of the day that is rocketing past at roller coaster speed, pure emotive emotions so personal that it makes you sit back and wonder at the writing here and what you have just read”. – Chris Vannoy - US Beat Poet Laureate 2019
https://takeadeepbreath.one
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