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Outlandish
Tales
A book of poems (unpublished) set as “tales,”
but which are not all narrative (or not at all narrative)
but inspired by Mevlana Rumi’s tale- spinning to make
his points, these outspinnings also have tails… to tell.
Written in 1984. |
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Awake As Never
Before
A book-length series poem in twelve parts, (chapbook,
Zilzal Press, 1993, out of print, rare), whose epigraph states:
Is it the search/that soothes?/Or the discovery/that shakes
us/to our foundations? A poem of opening the heart into
“wall-lessness…” Written in 1984. |
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Glorious
Intervals
A series poem in seventeen parts (Zilzal Press chapbook,
out of print, rare) : “Those who praise the One leave
the earth the way bubbles leave the surface of a pond, silently,
or with a silent pop, burst without a trace, going back into
the element from which they came, back into the air stretching
out in its vast panorama everywhere.” Written in 1985.
(In Memorium of dear friend and visionary painter, Norman
Stiegelmeyer, 1937-1985) |
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The Desert
is the Only Way Out
A seven-part poem, published as a Zilzal Press Chapbook,
1985, rare (some available at www.abebooks.com);
“By desert I mean both the real and the figurative,
for unless we are willing to go to ground zero to find out
what it is to be human again then destruction and damnation
flow through the streets of our cities as through the streets
of our bodies like blood.” |
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Long
Days On Earth / Book I
A series of books from Book I to Book VI that include
a retelling of Hayy ibn Yaqzan of medieval Arab philosopher,
Ibn Tufayl, a Robinson Crusoe-like tale, (Book II, a portion
published in The Jusoor Journal), and The Ramadan Sonnets
(Book V), published in 1996 by Jusoor and City Lights Books
(some copies available at www.abebooks.com).
Written in 1985. |
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