Book Cover: Ontologisitics of a Time Traveller by Mark Murphy
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ISBN: 978-2487017047
Size: 9.00 x 6.00 in
Pages: 75

When reading this book, it might be useful to note that the word, ‘Ontologistics,’ refers to a theory of social change in which disparity causes estrangement. What’s more, the conflict between objectification and self-affirmation, creates a feedback loop of increasing alienation, which in its turn causes more incompleteness or disharmony (conflict between man and nature, between man and man, and between the individual and the species). According to the Urban Dictionary, “Ontologistics depicts a recursive (self-referencing) path of social change.” And much like ‘hope,’ it seeks genuine resolution.

Excerpt:

Gaia

Perhaps we returned to you too late.
Green and lovely mother.
Unchanging mother,
buried in the oceans of the past.
Up to your neck in the slops and spoils
of enlightenment.
We’re no longer students of philosophy.
Poetry. Mythology.
We’re no longer the young poets
who wrote all the best lines.
Wanderers in the Minotaur’s labyrinth
of blood and illusion.
The queen of sea and shadow
has grabbed us now, as if by the balls.
But still we’re guided by a star
of hope. And only hope
        can scupper or save us.

Reviews:Derrick Jensen wrote:

How we perceive the world affects how we behave. Our behavior is killing the planet. If we succeed in changing our behavior, it will be in great measure because of books like this one. I am grateful to Mark Murphy for writing this book.

Prof. Kelli Allen wrote:

So many moments call us to disappear into the wilderness of quiet, of turning too far inward, and missing the orchestra of natural movement pushing the swirl ever-forward. In Mark Murphy’s Ontologistics of A Time Traveller, we are asked to stay awake at the feet of what we deem Beloved until we decide to live forever like leaves do, changing again and again into wardrobes meant for the wind. The work in this collection begs the reader to wonder why “Some days we hardly notice music/in the Horse Chestnuts” and how our ignorance feeds a decay too swiftly overtaking capital B-beauty. Murphy does not ignore the landscapes of the quotidian, but he does not make the everyday seem holier than it should be against a backdrop of grief and the longing that leads us all, eventually, to silence. The poems here remind their readers that even though “Always, there are voices that come/from the trunks of trees/And their voices are always most troubled,” we have more than a duty to bear witness. We have a duty to claim and speak our acts of witness for those whose voices are extinguished, and those whose conversations stumble into memory as we sleep. These are poems of and from a poet who convinces us to say aloud, “Our turn to be forgotten, will come /all too soon.” Murphy is a poet demanding change in the largest possible setting—that of human imagination and capacity to heal wounds our own hands have made and cast. This collection, while grave and bursting with warning to be heeded, comes from a man in love with the sheer size and precious fragility of the spaces we occupy, the breath we carry.


In Mannequin of our times, Vandana Kumar imagines the insights culled from the banal and mundane aspects of living. However, this living takes place on the edge of a civilization falling into ruins following the pandemic. In some ways, Kumar's poetic vision leads the reader toward an understanding that not much is changing during this global historical upheaval. She writes poignant lines about the human condition such as

the history of grief
is too old
to have started this year
and too young
to end with it.

With these lines, we sense Kumar struggling to situate the contemporary into the universal. The universal may take precedence, but personal experience is the wordsmith's true fodder. These poems speak of the contemporary through the lens of particular observations that engage with our historical moment. The universal person is questioned, however. Mannequin of our times is an experience of living within a world on hinge, a world facing dubious battles of its own.

Excerpt:

The cracks within

 

Why do you shy away?

Let me see you in the day

the glint of grey

peeping through your burgundy

the silver cloud line

in the midst of sunshine

 

why do you act demure?

Return that wanton laughter

why so tame this noon?

You heaved some nights

delirious under the sheets

just us

and a quarter moon

 

why are your papers?

No longer in disarray

why is the garden trimmed?

 

That broken pot was never meant to be fixed

and a part of your heart

like a country’s porous border

kept open for invasion.

Reviews:Kashiana Singh wrote:

This collection stayed with me for its poetry but as much for its dimensionality. These poems are not limited, they spread their wings out and about in terms of theme as well as voice.


Book Cover: The Literary Parrot: Series Four
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  • The Literary Parrot: Series Four
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Our primary mission is to bridge truth and relevant information gaps between the haves and the have-nots as we liberate people from ignorance of what is happening around them and beyond borders. We culled this mission from our belief that peace, harmony and prosperous cohabitation of humans can only exist when there is fair and transparent gathering and dissemination of relevant fact-checked information for all humans regardless of their socio-economic and cultural status and orientation.

Book Cover: Words of Gratitude
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Pages: 69

Troy Camplin writes verses to remind readers of the importance of deep levels of gratitude in daily living. This collection is divided in personal as well as political sphere of living. Learn why we should be grateful and what things we should express gratitude for in our everyday lives.

Excerpt:

Creating the Real

"You're just not living in reality."
In what reality? In whose? The real
That others make, or one that makes me free,
Creator of the world. The things you feel
Create reality for you, and mine
For me, to make the real emerge between
Us, be it terrible or be it fine.
To see the world in gratitude and hope—
To see it in resentment and in fear—
The one you choose is how you choose to cope,
It's how you see and taste and feel and hear.
Within the real, there's taking and there's giving—
You choose the human life that you are living.

Book Cover: Songs of Resentment
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Pages: 109

Troy Camplin writes verses to remind readers of the problem of resentment in daily living. This collection is divided in personal as well as political sphere of living. Learn why we should avoid resentment and how.

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Creating the Real

"You're just not living in reality."
In what reality? In whose? The real
That others make, or one that makes me free,
Creator of the world. The things you feel
Create reality for you, and mine
For me, to make the real emerge between
Us, be it terrible or be it fine.
To see the world in gratitude and hope—
To see it in resentment and in fear—
The one you choose is how you choose to cope,
It's how you see and taste and feel and hear.
Within the real, there's taking and there's giving—
You choose the human life that you are living.

Book Cover: The New Condemned: Contemporary Albanian Poetry in English
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The New Condemned: Contemporary Albanian Poetry in English is a selection of poets writing beyond the 1990's. This selection includes works by established and minor poets whose voices represent contemporary strains in Albanian poetry. As parts of Europe move toward far-right wing nativism and isolationism, this anthology seeks to inform the poetry community of the spirit of an established people with a long standing tradition in letters. In The New Condemned: Contemporary Albanian Poetry in English you will find quality translations of poetry that are uncompromisingly beautiful and heroic.

By nature, poets are exiles as they seek the truth in private quarters. As such, Albanian poets face a curious predicament having been condemned by history to isolation from much of the English speaking world. Ismail Kadare is one of the few whose work reaches a larger English audience. In this volume, we seek to bolster the voices of others in the English speaking world.

This 236-page volume includes works from:

 

ELIVERTA KANINA

ANILA VARFI

LUAN RAMA

GRANIT ZELA

ERMIRA MITRE KOKOMANI

ARDITA JATRU

TRËNDAFILE VISHA

LEDIA DUSHI

LINDITA AHMETI

ALISA VELAJ

GAZMEND KRASNIQI

MERITA KUÇI

Excerpt:

A daylight was married without any witness. No-one saw the groom on her side. With an exception of a lock, at the Great Entrance of City Hall. And the church did not open its doors.

 

On a Mosque, worshipers were praying on their own. And the bride, very old was investing loyalty with the unknown somewhere else. Tomorrow, according to tradition, bed sheets will be extended on the fence. And people, are waiting as usual (when the have nothing else to do) Wouldn't you think that the Daylight would have been a virgin?

 

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We smiled when lighting was in the sky. We remained silent when they descended above others. As if we would not be there. Now that they are exploding at the corner of the garden, we are shaking. And we ask, without waiting for an answer, why the time brings a thunderstorm. Prayers were dissolved. We simply wait. An unusual departure. As a crowd, crossed over a pyramid of wood logs that we built for ourselves. Wasn't the neighbour’s dog barking some time ago? And we were stating, our wishes to family members of the one who is gone. We followed funerals. Expressed improvised words at the moment for all deceased. Without feeling and experiencing death. We waited for its large impact.

 

There it comes. Dogs are barking in a crowd with their heads up and feel scratching the soil. We don't even have time to prepare for farewell. For the kids that don't know anything, why is the dog screaming. And we will not be able to keep in our chest when we leave. We will not be able to beg a pardon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I am not obscurity. Not a dog. I am one like you, sitting at a home entrance while looking at the world falling backwards. Some time ago I was thinking of the red oak tree. I said I would be taking a break there. But now, even this tall tree was burning. And I cannot find out, that above its ashes a flower will grow again. if a baby will be born again. If a man would become a man. And a woman, would be a woman. Amid bodies, souls, love is crystal clean white.

 

A longing of dogs is terrible. Silence too is just terrible...

 

- Trendafile Vishnu

 

WITH LOVE

 

Morning,

The wynd awaits me,

to touch my city,

grant my steps,

my breath,

comb its hair with desire.

Corner to corner,

wrap the castle's robes,

with the fervour of my palms,

and bestow a third eye,

between the sea and antiques,

lullaby you with my voice.

Let the joy be the sword,

for at present,

we fight differently,

With love!

 

- Merita Kuci

 

IN THE DEAD OF A POET OF SOCIALIST REALISM (OFFICIAL)

 

They laughed and spoke loudly at the New Bar

In the City Center, when I saw the news of your death.

Had come the first forgetting?! But your face laughed

In the official picture. Challenging; taken at glorious

time. You did it, if you wanted that I to say:

I have drunk all the pollution of my time,

As a spin of metaphors that hurt the showers

Of loneliness every evening.

You did it if I wanted that I me to say:

Flames of the lava in the darkness of the intestines

Are words but we can find a counter-fire dyke.

You did it if you want to enjoy my failure:

When – knife-… and acting without caps

Of Carnivals - they raised the stinging spectacle

Of the devoted coffee, in the little urn of silence

I read the dregs of medals where no fortune-teller

Would find anything for me.

 

- Gazmend Krasniqi

COLLAPSE
Book Cover: Go Forth! Poems 2011-22 by Damon Freed
Editions:Paperback: $ 22.00
ISBN: 979-8845897299
Pages: 537

“Refusal to acknowledge the boundaries set by convention is the source of frequent denunciations of objects of art as immoral. But one of the functions of art is precisely to sap the moralistic timidity that causes the mind to shy away from some materials and refuse to admit them into the clear and purifying light of perceptive consciousness.”

John Dewey, from Art as Experience, 1934

Go Forth! Poems 2011-22 is over 500 pages of Damon Freed's output from those years.

Excerpt:

She had invited me to her apartment
in Manhattan where she lived with her
cat. A perfect accompaniment to her
personality and comedy, as her cat was
even ornerier than her. So I took the
train into that city, it was summer I think.
It’s been a while and the details are foggy,
but I do recall her confiding in me as to
her decision.

from "A Loving Farewell"

 

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Hillbillies. I tell you. Hillbillies. Going to Taco Bell in the
A.M. to go get Freddy’s in the days. To tunes in the bars to
smoking outta cars. To sex in fields during days, to toys in
bars during nights. To fist-a-cuffs in bars, to fights with
walls in days to be in this town full of idiot youngsters.
Punksters. Punky-brewsters starting shit with the idiots!
Taking advantage of their ways.

Colleges and broads. Collection agencies and laws. Hard as
nails to studded walls in the daytime. Throwing punches of
love and sheetrocks your way in the days. Making paintings
in the days. Slathering on wet paint. Making you guys
faint!

To sounds of Presidents in the days. And angels from the
skies. Everyone lives and dies! And Politicians dance to
them. While up in ivory towers they live in. As do the
lowest of low living in the snows of time. Out there in the
cold, being as bold as them, making it with them, to the
sounds of times in rhymes by day and by night.

from "Ascend"

COLLAPSE
Book Cover: The Stone and the Square by Dustin Pickering
Editions:Paperback: $ 9.99
ISBN: 978-81-950350-3-8
Size: 5.00 x 8.00 in
Pages: 80

In his Salt and Sorrow, Pickering laments the departure of the Muse. In her absence, he composed poems of self-doubt and Christian salvation. In this new collection, the Muse returns as the embodiment of Love. Love inspires all Being with goodness and beauty. Love flows through the veins of life and in this collection She is ever-present as a subtle reflection of oneself. Many of these poems were written during the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 as the power outage led to the poet’s boredom. Other poems were written at different times of inspiration. These poems are heavily imbued with the beauty of life, amor fati, and truth as the ultimate concern of the poet. The return of the poet’s Muse is celebrated throughout.

Book Cover: The Literary Parrot -- Series 3
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  • The Literary Parrot -- Series 3
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ISBN: 979-8841289586
Size: 6.00 x 9.00 in
Pages: 185

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The Literary Parrot -- Series 3 is a collection of works of poets, novelists, visual artists, photographers and dramatists/script writers published by World Inkers Printing and Publishing company (www.worldinkers.com).

The book is scheduled to be officially released on August 1st, 2022.

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Excerpt:

The Arabic Teacher (Giorgi Lobzhanidze)
Analysis by Inga Zhghenti

The poem “The Arabic Teacher” is written by a contemporary prolific Georgian poet, translator and orientalist Giorgi Lobzhanidze, born on February 20, 1974, in Khashuri, Georgia. The poem was first published in a collection of poems under the same title in 2013. The poem perceives a human as a supreme part of this infinite universe, thus offering a romantically formulated solution to discern erotic love, passion and urges not as sins and physical temptations – but as a genuinely human condition interwoven with the wholeness and beauty of the universe. This very interrelation of erotic love and the universe eternalizes human feelings, sometimes momentary and doomed to fade over time.

Reviews:Akeem Alao Babatunde on worldinkers.com wrote:

The Literary Parrot Series 3 is one of the best collection of works of creative writers on earth.


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Book Cover: Thoughts from the Jungle Paperback

The world was once a jungle (that is, a land without borders), and it will finally one day again become a jungle.... Findings have shown that people who live in the jungle preciously preserve their cultural norms and values, and consequently live a better harmonious life – compare to people of the urban, where manipulation is the order of the day.... The author of this book was brought up in a society where culture is valued like a diamond: Yoruba land. It is a land where the proverb is seen as an everyday truism; perhaps, purposely to warn, to instruct and to admonish. However, the coming of Western culture and civilisation has greatly affected the originality of the people and the language (i.e. Yoruba). As Chinua Achebe would say: “Things are now (culturally) falling apart.” Hence, for the poet to at least contribute his part in the preservation and beautification of African culture as a whole, he decided to pen Thoughts from the Jungle.

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