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  Song of the Black Skylark: Poem in the American Literary Halloween Tradition

                      (Black Skylark title art graphic by Postered Poetics for Aberjhani) Does the enigmatic figure of the Black Skylark referenced in this blog title have anything to do with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (1845), with Walt Whitman’s “The Mystic Trumpeter”…

  October 12, 2014
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  Dancing with Genius, Dancing with Madness (in Honor of Jalaluddin Rumi)

                                                             (Rumi Visions II CD cover art by  Marvin Mattelson) I think of Genius and Madness as being very much like a twin brother and sister.  And it doesn’t really matter which one we call the brother, or which we describe as the sister, for one simple reason.  Within the…

  September 30, 2014
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  Text and Meaning in Elemental the Power of Illuminated Love (part 2 of 3)

            Video cover image for the music and poem video “Angel of Better Days to Come.” One example of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love’s principal themes would be the painting “Christ Listening to Stereo.” It depicts a youth on a bus in New York City.…

  September 25, 2014
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  Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)

  “The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence…”~Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature (This segment of Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives is…

  September 2, 2014