ANGEL EDWARDS -LUST UNFILTERED BY LOVE‘Lust Unfiltered By Love’ is Angel Edwards second book of poetry. A musician by profession, Angel’s musical influence weaves its way into each poem with an intrinsic rhythm that glides the reader both gently and rambunctiously across the dance floor of Angel’s creative mind. There is a vibrant mix of emotion permeating the pages with love, sex, lust, sorrow, hate, loss grief and finally acceptance resulting in fully grasping the lust for living. Imagination if the playground of the mind and lust is the underlying emotion that brings all things to fruition as evidenced in the pages of this vibrant evocative book ~ Candice James, Poet Laureate Emerita, New Westminster, BC CANADA
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ANGEL EDWARDS - TALES IN THE DREAMS GARDENAngel Edwards’ first collection of poems. Tales from the Dreams Garden, is a delightful and mysterious read. Her work draws on her extensive musical background. This is exemplified by her use of cadence and breath that imbues each poem with narrative and subtle rhythm. Repetition is cleverly used along with spare and beautiful imagery. ~ Jude Neale author of “A Quite Coming of the Light”; “Splendid in Its Silence”
This is a book by a musician. There is a lyricism and sense of harmony in the flow of the words that almost has you singing along, beating out a rhythm on your knees, reaching for a hand to hold, reaching for a guitar. Angel has created a land of dreams, a place of melody and beauty. In this place, whatever the hardship that has been faced, the pain bravely endured, there is always the summer, the warm nights, the stars and the ocean. Join Angel as she takes you through the forest of yourself to the ocean’s edge. There, she will leave you alone but knowing that with her words to guide you, you will always be able to find a way to get back home again -~ Alan Hill, Poet Laureate, New Westminster, BC CANADA FABIYAS M V - SHELTER WITHIN THE PEANUT SHELLSA few years ago, I had the chance of getting acquainted with Fabiyas MV’s poetry, and it staggered me. It has been a while, and still his poetry holds my interest and makes me reflect upon the foibles of the humankind.
Fabiyas is not a poet of sweet words and soothing verses. If that is what you are looking for, you’d better steer far away. He is the poet who crossed the road from fantasy to reality, expressed poignantly in the sudden wake up call of the poet when he drove into the concrete wall of the real world. Although fantasy shimmers, the real world holds pain, blood and existential truths, and the pull of all of those is stronger than the dreamy quality of the imagination. The constant of his poetry is the ugly face of reality and its uncompromising truths. He does not hide behind the fantasy of inspiration but looks and digs through the misery of daily life because his world is rough, piled up with cut and dry truths. Facing the life as it is with open eyes and mind, it is no wonder he developed a certain obsession with what lies beyond death. He visualizes it both in the animal and human world, noting the decay it brings. However, in my opinion, he sees death as a sort of soul and mind liberation. It opens the soul toward various possibilities and existence planes, but at the same time, it reveals mysteries hidden in plain sight. He sees life as a light between misty ends, between what has been before and what will come after. In essence, life seems to be a bridge linking two planes of existence, effacing the unpleasantness of the mundane. As a result, death represents the only certitude in the human life for the poet. In his quest to identify meanings and realities, he grasps facets of human being merely symbolized by macaque, viper and a rain tree for instance, at the same time pitting the simplicity of the animal, which accepts death with serenity, against the angst of man, overwhelmed by his own weaknesses and incertitudes. However, the poet doesn’t touch only upon the meaning of death and the possibilities this one opens to the beings, either two or four-legged. He is also obsessed with portraits of various people and slices of life, like the crazy woman on the Kanoli Bank, in Diverse Shades of Insanity, the fisherman, prey of the monsoon, in Monsoon Turbulence, or the hunchback boy, in A Hunchback Boy from Manayur. Fabiyas peruses the soiled world of people’s vices and the consequences of their actions. He clinically watches a parade of younger or older people going through the grinding wheels of their existence. The poet invites to reflection and meditation. He opens gates and shuts down illusions. Nothing is wrapped in pinky hues, but everything is shredded to the bare bones of mankind’s features. His poetry should wear a warning sign: “Read at your own peril – life in its stark nudity. It will make you think and feel. It will awake your conscious and will make you reach a higher plane.” ROXANA NASTASE - EDITOR IN CHIEF SCARLET LEAF REVIEW GARY BECK - TOO HARSH FOR PASTELSToo Harsh For Pastels is a 100 page poetry book in paperback with a price of $15.00 ISBN 9389690226, through Cyberwit Publishing. The Kindle version is $2.99 Available through all major retailers. For information or to request a review copy, c0ntact: cyberwit@gmail.com
https://www.amazon.com/Too-Harsh-Pastels-Gary-Beck/dp/9389690226/ ANDERS M. SVENNING - LIFE AFTER SCHIZOPHRENIALife After Schizophrenia breaks down the theory, or thought form schizophrenia into many different levels starting with the opening essay which is titled, "Schizophrenia: Real or Imagined." The science known as ontology which delineates the bases of existence is a device used to further scrutinize schizophrenia from the oblique angle of those diagnosed, or as put in the book misdiagnosed as per misconstrued symptoms which are spiritual or religious in origin.
Individuals many times are taken against their will to mental health offices and even institutionalized for deviant thoughts which are in turn verbalized and which are in all of actuality the subconscious surfacing and in effect initiating pansophism in the individual which is as C.G. Jung has put it the ultimate objective of man as an individual and as a whole. The hindering of pansophism and even corporeal atonement with one's subconscious is perpetuated through the misplaced faith systems of many a mental health professional; and within the pages of Life After Schizophrenia lies the collinear processes of the how and the why regarding the so called schizophrenic thought form, its prevalence, and its transforming into hysteria, but also incorporates the causation of supposed schizophrenic ideas on individualistic, societal, spiritual, and even religious levels. JOHN CLARK SMITH - TAKING ACTION - SHORT STORIESMost of the stories in this collection revolve around one theme: the need to change, to rebel, or to be courageous. Inevitably this means conflict with tradition, authority, or the status quo. The people in these stories do not sit still and wait for others to make the changes. They are, in different ways and degrees, activists, even if the change is so subtle only they may know it. The choices may be social, political, personal, spiritual or romantic. They can involve people of all ages, races, and religions. But the need to transform relationships, regimes, systems, traditions, and habits is common throughout. Of course, for each person who stands up for principles or who rebels against the old ways, there is a cost, sometimes a very steep cost.
DUSTIN PICKERING - BE NOT AFRAID OF WHAT YOU MAY FINDThree women get caught in a murder investigation that leads them down the dark path of supernatural mystery and mayhem. They uncover a conspiracy between local police and the nuclear industries during their research. The story will leave you hanging as the details pile up and the women discover what they must do to restore order to the scene.
The book is available here: https://tinyurl.com/y6cubfsv You can buy copies from the author which he will sign and personalize for ten dollars via Paypal to desireofdogs@gmail.com. Get them while supplies last! This fabulous and unique cover art is by Ammi Romero! GEORGE PAYNE - A TIME BEFORE TEACHERSGeorge Cassidy Payne was born in Oneonta, NY, grew up in several towns in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, and eventually settled in Rochester, NY. He received a BA from St. John Fisher College, MA from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and MTS from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. A Time Before Teachers is his first book of collected poems.
Payne’s poetry has appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Cholla Needles, The Adirondack Almanac, Mojave He{art}t Review, MORIA Poetry Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, Front Porch Review, Chronogram Magazine, Talker of the Town, Zingara Poetry Review, Ovi Magazine, River Poets Journal, Adelaide, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, Califragile, Deep South Magazine, Amethyst Review, From the Edge Poetry Magazine, and others. His blogs, essays, and letters to the editor, have appeared in national and international publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Toronto Sun, the Havana Times, the Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. In 2010 he was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award. A Way Out the cloth of the cosmos came undone at the seams—undone like a bootleg Gucci handbag the Pope declared heaven is not real and Saturn was sucked into the belly of a black hole, as all semblance of order evaporated into the organic air of an American Spirit cigarette-- the dark green pack with that mild, additive-free taste the glacier ice caps melted, Capitalism collapsed as all Hell broke loose today, for the first time, my son climbed out of his crib +++ An Age Before Teachers A time before teachers. When no one taught them how to fashion wood into tools. They just did, turning a shoulder into shovels, and intestines into rafts. A time before teachers. When thoughts and Time leaned towards the magic of God. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Before-Teachers-George-Payne/dp/1689814373 |