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Albany Poets News > Frederick Glaysher’s “The Parliament of Poets” "If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest Open Mic at the Albany Public Library you will remember Frederick Glaysher and his epic poem The Parliament of Poets. His work certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves.... We just got word that the epic is now finished and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play." https://albanypoets.com/2013/02/frederick-glayshers-the-parliament-of-poets/
February 8, 2013 at 8:23 am
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Albany Poets News > Frederick Glaysher’s “The Parliament of Poets” "If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest Open Mic at the Albany Public Library you will remember Frederick Glaysher and his epic poem The Parliament of Poets. His work certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves.... We just got word that the epic is now finished and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play." https://albanypoets.com/2013/02/frederick-glayshers-the-parliament-of-poets/
February 8, 2013 at 8:22 am
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My wife and I at the Sikh Gurdwara of Rochester Hills, Michigan, during its Open House on August 16, 2012, in memory of the victims of the Wisconsin incident. https://www.sikhgurdwara.com/media/photos/?album=6&gallery=2&nggpage=3
January 8, 2013 at 7:23 am
Frederick GlaysherSwaran Singh, I thought you might enjoy this! ...though it's not one of my better poses. ...kind of slumped over. Makes me worry age is catching up with me! :)
January 8, 2013 at 7:28 am
Yahya Dramelook like a perfect muslim couple. with any offense !!
January 8, 2013 at 8:09 am
Frederick GlaysherPerhaps you mean "without any." We respect Islam too, though we tend to think like Kabir and all the great Sufis that God is not in a box, if you understand what I mean.
January 8, 2013 at 8:13 am
Yahya Drameyes Sir, I meant it '' Without any''...thanks.. sounds good that you respect Islam too.:D
January 8, 2013 at 8:15 am
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With the Troy Interfaith Group and the Reform Bahai Faith, I attended last night the Sikh Gurdwara of Sterling Heights, Michigan, January 7, 2013. The Sikhs served as gracious hosts of the TIG Steering Committee Meeting, and then of Charles Mabee and discussion of the Hospitality Initiative: Intersecting Culture and Spirituality, closing with a brief introduction to Sikhism and a tour of their beautiful new gurdwara. There were approximately thirty to forty people in attendance, with much discussion and sharing. An enjoyable evening!
January 8, 2013 at 5:51 am
https://www.michigangurudwara.com/media/
January 8, 2013 at 5:55 am
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Happy New Year! Harlequin... La Maschera Del Galeone, Venice, Commedia dell'arte. December 31, 2012
January 1, 2013 at 8:47 am
Love the mask and love Venice x
January 1, 2013 at 9:39 am
Like that Mask will love to wear one ..sumtimes...
January 1, 2013 at 7:18 pm
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Happy New Year! Punchinello... La Maschera Del Galeone, Venice, Commedia dell'arte. December 31, 2012
January 1, 2013 at 8:09 am
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Happy New Year! Harlequin... La Maschera Del Galeone, Venice, Commedia dell'arte. December 31, 2012
January 1, 2013 at 7:08 am
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I find the “water moon” position of the Chinese Buddhist statues of Kuan-yin, right knee raised, with the right are extending over the knee, one of the most beautiful and evocative in Buddhist art. That's what the Chinese call this pose... I saw one statue at a Shaanxi History Museum in X'ian, China, that is truly a national treasure, in carved stone, that's very famous. Buddhism has what are called mudras, stylized hand positions and other poses, all carry various meanings symbolically. I use or refer to several in my epic poem, because for Buddhists they carry a great deal of meaning and suggestive emotion, and so on. I finally finished my epic, and it's available online as a hardcover and ebook formats. There's a long section with Kabir that I hope speaks well to Sikhs, though he's really a pre-Sikh poet. It's his universal perspective that is important to me. I think much of that spirit is what the world needs today, globally, East and West. One of the qualities of modernity is the rigidity of its abstractions, whether East or West, codifying its disjunctions. Whose Buddha? Whose West? East? Modern life is much more complex and fluid than the traditional categories and the attempts to "return," "restore," "recover," and so forth, in each case, around the globe. Kabir, Rumi, others, speak to our time because they were early voices of the realization of Unity. I've read the Tao te Ching many times throughout my life. To my mind, one who has spent his entire adult life reading in all the religious and literary traditions, East and West, and lived in Japan, traveling all over China, the "categories" are not as tight and neat as many argue... especially on the lived, human level. Given modern experience, I have often thought, What's the difference between going back to Jesus or back to Buddha? The idea of *exclusive* truth, East or West, is a misconception. I believe the realization of Unity, as in Rumi, Kabir, and others, human oneness, is a much more profound response to human experience, especially given all the upheavals and change that marked the 20th Century.
December 20, 2012 at 3:57 am
Thanks, Manjari, for your interest. There's a fuller version of the text now on my blog. I posted here too soon! ...thoughts kept coming to my head. :)
https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/12/20/buddhism-and-modernity/
https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/12/20/buddhism-and-modernity/
December 20, 2012 at 4:45 am
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Barnes & Noble, Hardcover and Nook ePub... now available. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-parliament-of-poets-frederick-glaysher/1112448232
November 30, 2012 at 8:08 am
Wow, from strength to strength x
November 30, 2012 at 11:12 am
Kathy Greethurst, I appreciate your positive words. :) Thanks, all...
November 30, 2012 at 11:57 am
I just wish I had time to read your work properly. Maybe one day ,,, x
December 1, 2012 at 1:32 am
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I attended, with the Troy-area Interfaith Group, its annual Thanksgiving Day Celebration, this year at the Sikh Gurdwara, Rochester Hills, Michigan, on November 18, 2012. About seventy-five people or more attended from several religious backgrounds, Christians, Jains, and Hindus, the Jewish Shir Tikvah, the Reform Bahai Faith, and Muslims of various traditions. There were a number of speakers and prayers, many elevating and moving, and delightful youth presentation, there was a langar-style repast in the dining area of the Gurdwara, enjoyed together during a social time. Well attended and a lovely event! The Sikh Community were very gracious hosts and made all feel at home in their beautiful new gurdwara! A wonderful Thanksgiving Day Celebration. https://www.sikhgurdwara.com/
November 24, 2012 at 6:09 am
Dalvir Gill The local gurdwara near where I live... The local Sikh community has been here for many years and just built this one, their second in the area, new just this year.
November 24, 2012 at 6:14 am
Chris Mooney-Singh
November 25, 2012 at 10:02 am
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https://books.fglaysher.com
November 9, 2012 at 7:27 am
Huston Smith
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November 9, 2012 at 8:32 am
Joseph Campbell
https://www.facebook.com/JosephCampbellFoundation
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November 9, 2012 at 8:37 am
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Sun Wukong, the Chinese Monkey King, guides the Poet from Bagan, Burma, up over Lhasa, Tibet, to the Buddhist Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, China, and on down the Hexi Corridor, route of the Old Silk Road, to Chang-an, Capital of the Tang Dynasty, where he meets with the poet Du Fu at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
November 4, 2012 at 5:29 am
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With the Troy-area Interfaith Group and the Reform Bahai Faith, I attended the United Nations International Day of Peace Celebration, Sept. 21st, held on the 23rd, at the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit, Rochester Hills, Michigan. About thirty-five people attended from several other religious backgrounds, Christians and Hindus, and Muslims. After UN film, the program featured small group discussions, and light snacks enjoyed together during a social time. Well attended and a lovely event! https://www.iagd.net/
September 25, 2012 at 7:53 am
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Bay View Beach, Little Traverse Bay, Petoskey, Michigan, August 30, 2012, shortly after finishing the entire 8th draft of The Parliament of Poets and the Summer Serialization, recovering and trying to clear out my head on the beach down in front of the historic Chautaugua Bay View Association and Terrace Inn, where I stayed.
September 9, 2012 at 3:36 pm
I know the place well and like it. We spend part of every summer at Walloon Lake nearby.
September 9, 2012 at 6:39 pm
I've heard of Walloon Lake, know it's up there somewhere. Michigan is so full of beautiful lakes. Glad you found one you must like.
September 10, 2012 at 2:17 am
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Apollo 11 plaque left on the Moon reads: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
August 26, 2012 at 4:59 am
The plague is fastened to the support structure of the descent stage of the Lunar Module which still sits on the moon.
August 26, 2012 at 5:00 am
It's just behind the rungs of the ladder so that as one climbs or descends the ladder one directly faces it.
August 26, 2012 at 5:01 am
Incidentally, the Persona in my poem notices the plaque in BOOK I and reflects a little on it... BOOK I is free online at PDF.
August 26, 2012 at 6:39 am
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Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon.
August 26, 2012 at 4:16 am
My son "Neil' is named after Armstrong.
August 26, 2012 at 5:33 am
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The Front Page of The New York Times From July 21, 1969 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/26/science/space/26armstrong-moon-landing-doc.html
August 26, 2012 at 4:10 am
Flag of America?
August 26, 2012 at 4:21 am
Yep, they planted the American flag.
August 26, 2012 at 4:23 am
so the moon was their colony? It was colonizing moon...No i guess
August 26, 2012 at 4:25 am
The United States of America, the country that conceived of landing on the moon and created the technology and human ability needed to achieved it.
August 26, 2012 at 4:25 am
so they could claim the moon as their territory. They could have planted a flag representing the Earth too ...we need to design one for the entire humanity
August 26, 2012 at 4:27 am
It's a historical fact that other countries of the earth did not rise to the challenge. It was only the Americans who did and therefore right and just that they should have planted their flag on the moon. They earned it unlike any other nation on earth.
August 26, 2012 at 4:35 am
yes I understand all that Frederick! but first we all are earthlings...that aspect was forgotten and still we forget.
August 26, 2012 at 4:39 am
Not at all the case. The plaque left on the Moon reads: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
Anachronistic colonial ideology might not be the best lens with which to view what humankind achieved by landing on the moon. Like down here on the Earth, much is distorted by "theory."
Anachronistic colonial ideology might not be the best lens with which to view what humankind achieved by landing on the moon. Like down here on the Earth, much is distorted by "theory."
August 26, 2012 at 4:46 am
that is what I was wanting to know! Whether we were represented as men from the planet Earth. The plaque reads this then what more do we need.
thanks Frederick Glaysher for this beautiful message from the plaque
thanks Frederick Glaysher for this beautiful message from the plaque
August 26, 2012 at 4:50 am
I am sharing it
August 26, 2012 at 4:50 am
The plague is fastened to support structure of the descent stage of Lunar Module which still sits on the moon. I'll post a copy of it in a moment...
August 26, 2012 at 4:53 am
please do so. thanks
August 26, 2012 at 4:54 am
To my mind, we human beings of planet Earth have the flag of the United Nations. What we need to do is respect and honor it more than we have to date as a world community.
August 26, 2012 at 5:10 am
... and seriously develop the UN, instead of thinking of it as merely a "tool" of nationalistic utility.
August 26, 2012 at 5:13 am
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Dream up a better world... this one is in trouble. The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, Book I Direct link to Free PDF: https://www.books.fglaysher.com/media/FGlaysher_The_Parliament_of_Poets_for_Epic_Poetry_ReadingsI.pdf
August 23, 2012 at 2:55 pm
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IMAGINE the future into being... The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, Book I Direct link to Free PDF https://www.books.fglaysher.com/media/FGlaysher_The_Parliament_of_Poets_for_Epic_Poetry_ReadingsI.pdf
August 23, 2012 at 9:43 am
It's about damned time.
August 23, 2012 at 6:07 pm
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IMAGINE a future... The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, Book I Direct link to PDF, Free: https://www.books.fglaysher.com/media/FGlaysher_The_Parliament_of_Poets_for_Epic_Poetry_ReadingsI.pdf
August 23, 2012 at 5:57 am
Thanks, Stuart, I appreciate your interest...
August 23, 2012 at 6:50 am
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A few weeks ago I bought an African mask at the Ann Arbor Art Fair. The vendor said it was an Igbo mask but wasn't sure if it was the god Ani, I believe an Earth or Mother Goddess. Can anyone confirm this beautiful mask is of her?
August 9, 2012 at 5:34 am
looks like an lgbo though... :):)
August 9, 2012 at 5:50 am
Thanks, James, for commenting. The vendor was from Cameroon and had about hundred masks from all over Africa. He showed me several Igbo masks. This one really struck me as beautiful, and clearly feminine. The only Igbo god I can remember is Ani, also known as Ala. A very stylized mask in terms of features and hair.
August 9, 2012 at 5:55 am
How can you tell it's Igbo? What's do you see that is characteristic of Igbo?
August 9, 2012 at 5:57 am
The lips and the face structure...
l am tempted to believe its an image of an lgbo woman.
And the nose too, that basically gives her up.. :):)
l am tempted to believe its an image of an lgbo woman.
And the nose too, that basically gives her up.. :):)
August 9, 2012 at 6:41 am
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Rather than a dystopia, IMAGINE a positive future for humanity... BOOK I free. https://books.fglaysher.com/The-Parliament-of-Poets-An-Epic-Poem-Book-II-Book-II.htm
July 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm
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The First Global, Universal Epic BOOK I, a free PDF https://books.fglaysher.com https://books.fglaysher.com/The-Parliament-of-Poets-An-Epic-Poem-Book-V-Book-V.htm
July 30, 2012 at 10:52 am
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Book V of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem is now available: BOOK V, THE ARGUMENT: "An old man welcomes the Persona to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, guiding him across the bridge and through and around the galleries. Bayon. The Killing Fields. Bagan, Burma, Valley of a Thousand Temples. Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, ferries the Persona over Tibet to Dunhuang in the far northwest of China. " A rustle and a parting of leaves, an old man stepped out of the jungle, a little frail, thin and short, walked toward me, saying, "Ah, so you are the Poet of the Moon." https://books.fglaysher.com/The-Parliament-of-Poets-An-Epic-Poem-Book-V-Book-V.htm
July 8, 2012 at 9:40 am
Masahide Morita Thanks for sharing with your friends. I mentioned once to you I had a picture of the front portico of Koryu-ji over one of my desks. It's the bottom one on the left. Koryu-ji's Miroku Bosatsu is the photo on the wall to my left. Kakinomoto Hitomaro's poem “On Passing the Ruined Capital of Omi” is to the top right, in front of me, written for me by a Japanese friend back in the early 1980s. Japan, forever in my heart and soul!
July 8, 2012 at 2:08 pm
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Chen Guangcheng, Interview: ‘Pressure for Change is at the Grassroots’ "No, nothing organized like that. But there was a traditional belief in virtue that’s present in Chinese culture—that might have some Buddhist content, but not necessarily that one believes in Buddhism. It wasn’t so much a religion as a social virtue that people have, a logical extension of virtue." https://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jun/26/chen-guangcheng-interview/
July 3, 2012 at 3:27 am
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BOOK IV, THE ARGUMENT “Beyond in medias res, Tagore guides the Persona to India, to the ashram of the sage and epic poet Vyasa in the Himalayan foothills; to the field of Kurukshetra; and, in sight of Mt Kailash, Shiva Nataraja. Kabir. The epic struggles of the Ramayana. Hanuman carries the Persona to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.” https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/07/01/book-iv-summer-serialization/
July 1, 2012 at 10:35 am
Sir, I am eagerly waiting to read the cantos you have published so far...But the problem is that I have no credit card....Few of my friends have, and I have told them to download your book....Within one week, I hope, I shall be able to read the cantos...After getting all the cantos, I shall share the epic with few of my friends, who are good readers...Some of my teachers, who are professors of English Literature, are good readers, and some of them are writers...I shall also give it to them....I understand the worth of your endeavour, and shall try my best to spread it in my country.
July 1, 2012 at 10:57 am
Thank you, Ratul. It's very gratifying to know I have a reader who understands what I'm trying to do as a writer. I especially await your opinion of Book IV, just published today, all of which is on India, and that of the judgment of your friends and colleagues. I have strained every nerve to honor India's great literary and spiritual traditions, and anxiously hope I have not failed you and other Indian friends!
July 1, 2012 at 11:10 am
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TLS, The Times Literary Supplement, in its current June 22, 2012 issue, has an announcement of the Summer Serialization of The Parliament of Poets, on page 23, along with details: https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/06/24/tls-the-times-literary-supplement-june-22-2012/
June 24, 2012 at 8:06 am
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I believe I have written the first epic poem in English in 345 years, since Milton’s publishing Paradise Lost in 1667. I cordially invite the reader to consider that there is no other subsequent poem in the English language that succeeds in meriting the title of epic, nor comparison with Milton, Dante, Virgil, and Homer. All of the contenders are merely long poems, series and sequences, mock epics, or local epics, if you will, embracing a regional civilization, not the entire globe, not a universal epic, with a world-embracing vision. The same is true of all of the traditional epics of other cultures, as with Asia, for instance. Throughout my adult life, my life-long goal has been to write a universal, global epic, commensurate with our Global Age, to speak to all nations, the many millions. I invite readers to consider and judge whether I have achieved what I began to conceive of, and study for, as early as 1982. BOOK I, along with the Preface and Introduction, is a FREE DOWNLOAD at PDF. https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/06/23/first-epic-poem-english-345-years/
June 23, 2012 at 3:13 am
Don't be so modest.
June 23, 2012 at 3:24 am
Thank you for commenting. Could anyone write an epic poem and not realize it? Do we, today, in literature, East and West, think the epic poem only belongs to the past?
June 23, 2012 at 3:29 am
It's your naive claim that you are the only person in centuries to write one which is galling.
June 23, 2012 at 4:31 am
But nevertheless, congratulations on your achievement.
June 23, 2012 at 4:33 am
Thanks for the good word. In my essay "Epopee," in my book The Grove of the Eumenides, available worldwide in either a printed or ebook edition, I survey ancient and modern epic poetry. https://fglaysher.com/order_books.html
June 23, 2012 at 5:55 am
when silence speaks in the form of poetry.....awareness of the mind got new understanding.
June 23, 2012 at 7:16 am
I think that too... You make me recall that part of OM is the silence, a meditative mood. What is poetry if not modulated reflection? The pacing of the mind, seeking to know, understand? Whether the intense concentration of a haiku or the expanse of an epic?
June 23, 2012 at 8:50 am
Well said! I like the quote about poetry being modulated reflection.
June 23, 2012 at 1:58 pm
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Apollo calls all the poets of the nations, ancient and modern, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. Book I, a Free PDF Download, Summer Serialization https://books.fglaysher.com/ "The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem," by Frederick Glaysher, takes place partly on the moon, at the Apollo 11 landing site, the Sea of Tranquility. All the great shades appear at the Apollo landing site in the Sea of Tranquility: Homer and Virgil from Greek and Roman civilization; Dante, Spenser, and Milton hail from the Judeo-Christian West; Rumi, Attar, and Hafez step forward from Islam; Tu Fu and Li Po, Basho and Zeami, step forth from China and Japan; the poets of the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana meet on that plain; griots from Africa; shamans from Indonesia and Australia; Murasaki Shikibu, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen, poets and seers of all ages, bards, troubadours, and minstrels, ancient and modern, major and minor, hail across the halls of time and space. One of the major themes is the power of women and the female spirit across cultures. As the Guide shows the Persona crucial sites around the globe, such as Chartres Cathedral and Angkor Wat, the nature of social order and civilization in the regions of the past is explored. Modern twentieth century historical experience in all its glory and all its brutal suffering is fully confronted. The modern movement toward a global civilization is recognized and celebrated for the unprecedented future it opens to human beings. That transcendent rose symbol of our age, the Earth itself viewed from the heavens, one world with no visible boundaries, metaphor of the oneness of the human race, reflects its blue-green light into the darkness of the starry universe.
June 14, 2012 at 11:00 am
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Apollo calls all the poets of the nations, ancient and modern, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. https://books.fglaysher.com/ "The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem," by Frederick Glaysher, takes place partly on the moon, at the Apollo 11 landing site, the Sea of Tranquility. Book I, a Free PDF Download, Summer Serialization All the great shades appear at the Apollo landing site in the Sea of Tranquility: Homer and Virgil from Greek and Roman civilization; Dante, Spenser, and Milton hail from the Judeo-Christian West; Rumi, Attar, and Hafez step forward from Islam; Tu Fu and Li Po, Basho and Zeami, step forth from China and Japan; the poets of the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana meet on that plain; griots from Africa; shamans from Indonesia and Australia; Murasaki Shikibu, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen, poets and seers of all ages, bards, troubadours, and minstrels, ancient and modern, major and minor, hail across the halls of time and space. One of the major themes is the power of women and the female spirit across cultures. As the Guide shows the Persona crucial sites around the globe, such as Chartres Cathedral and Angkor Wat, the nature of social order and civilization in the regions of the past is explored. Modern twentieth century historical experience in all its glory and all its brutal suffering is fully confronted. The modern movement toward a global civilization is recognized and celebrated for the unprecedented future it opens to human beings. That transcendent rose symbol of our age, the Earth itself viewed from the heavens, one world with no visible boundaries, metaphor of the oneness of the human race, reflects its blue-green light into the darkness of the starry universe.
June 14, 2012 at 10:45 am
Downloaded, thanks Frederick. Will read later.
June 14, 2012 at 11:01 am
I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think!
June 14, 2012 at 11:03 am
Will do -- and many thanks.
June 14, 2012 at 11:04 am
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"Queen Mab and Japara were at our lead, bearing us aloft, light speed, for the moon..." https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4 12 minutes. From The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, Book III. Copyright (c) 2012. Photo May 28, 2012.
June 7, 2012 at 5:47 am
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“Scientists and engineers don’t own the moon. I once saw their flags and footprints, intricate rubbish left behind. We’re rescuing it from them! We poets were there first! ...” https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4 12 minutes. From The Parliament of Poets, Book III. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.
June 5, 2012 at 11:37 am
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Frederick Glaysher. My patio and flower garden, May 28, 2012. “Beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty all around me, I’m on the pollen path..." https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k YouTube, 15 minutes, From, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.
June 4, 2012 at 10:18 am
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Frederick Glaysher. On my patio, surrounded by my flower garden, May 28, 2012. "In my backyard, sitting on a stone bench, I saw and heard birds and beasts of every kind..." YouTube, 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k From, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.
June 3, 2012 at 9:23 am
Saw and heard you reading from the fifth draft. Liked your reading, though I must admit I couldn't follow you entirely from the beginning to the end.
June 3, 2012 at 9:46 am
I'm glad you liked it. The quality of the sound recording often isn't what one would wish in a live setting. And maybe the onrush of words can be fast and furious in an interpretive, dramatic performance. Sorry... but something like that is the inner sense I have when writing, taking on the characters and roles, losing myself in them.
June 3, 2012 at 9:52 am
Pradip Ray, On Friday I finished the seventh draft through Book IX. Hope to have the seventh draft entirely done this week... pushing on! Then, it's time to publish the epic. It will take the rest of the summer to set up all the logistics, and I hope somehow serialize each "Book" or chapter somewhere, each week, for three months, until the book is ready...
June 3, 2012 at 10:17 am
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Frederick Glaysher. On my patio, surrounded by my flower garden, May 28, 2012. "In my backyard, sitting on a stone bench, I saw and heard birds and beasts of every kind..." From, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k
June 3, 2012 at 5:47 am
Wonderful. I love it!
June 3, 2012 at 5:52 am
Thanks, Kathy! There's a pond way down there through the trees...
June 3, 2012 at 5:53 am
A fine-looking garden . . .
June 3, 2012 at 6:18 am
Oh, thank you! Just a little one, wrapping around the back of my house, but a pleasant place to relax and reflect.
June 3, 2012 at 6:21 am
E O Wilson, the sociobiologist, reckons that humans naturally enjoy the combination of natural features that reminds them of the prehistorical savannas where we evolved: a slightly elevated view of a clearing, flanked by trees, with a water source . . . .
June 3, 2012 at 6:25 am
Actually, my epic poem has a section set at Blombos Cave, not far from the savannas, speaking broadly...
June 3, 2012 at 6:55 am
I love the way that you are part of the scene.
June 3, 2012 at 8:11 am
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Frederick Glaysher, in front of my study window, May 28, 2012. "I found myself sitting in my study, dozing over a book, Cervantes’ Don Quixote..." From, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k
June 3, 2012 at 4:09 am
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Frederick Glaysher, in front of my study window, May 28, 2012. "I found myself sitting in my study, dozing over a book, Cervantes’ Don Quixote..." From, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k
June 1, 2012 at 11:35 am
My goodness, you live in a heaven!
June 2, 2012 at 7:14 am
Oh, thank you. My wife and I are happy here, though, of course, all things are endlessly relative in this world. I often think of my house as Cervantes talked about the old broken-down farm he lived on, as a haphazard country farmer, writing Don Quixote, as it were, because, in all honesty, my house tends a little towards being a broken-down old colonial fixer-upper, as we say in the USA, requiring woeful amounts of money and time poured into it!
June 2, 2012 at 7:36 am
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The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem I've finished now the seventh draft through Book VI and should be able to finish the entire seventh draft in about a week to ten days. I'd very much like to serialize the individual Books or chapters somewhere, as in a magazine or journal, in the old days, when more publications were willing to do so, reminiscent, in my mind, of Charles Dickens and the Nineteenth Century, and then the full book in the early fall. The small literary magazines and journals rarely publish anything beyond short lyric poems and single short stories. Nothing like an entire epic poem! ...even broken up into chapters. A summer serialization, twelve weeks, as it were. A dream in itself... but how, and what would be its fulfillment in the Post-Gutenberg Age? https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/05/28/book-cover-the-parliament-of-poets/
May 29, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Each of the twelve Books or chapters, mostly eighteen to twenty-five pages...
May 29, 2012 at 3:47 pm
What would be its fulfillment in the Post-Gutenberg Age? What would it look like? Where?
https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/05/28/book-cover-the-parliament-of-poets/
https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/05/28/book-cover-the-parliament-of-poets/
May 30, 2012 at 3:44 am
Sir, the poets rarely write epic poems now-a-days, so if we blame only the editors for not publishing them, I think, it would be unfair...It is a commonly held belief that in Modern era readers don't have time to read epics or big novels...I know that this claim is baseless, but it really discourages me sometimes...I also try to write story in my own language, and while writing, a thought always haunts me- Have I written too much? Will it bore the the readers?..This tendency really affects my writings, and as a result ,sometimes I feel so irritated that I feel like stop writing forever...Do you think that in modern days the literary works should be as short as possible? Can we blame the readers for their lack of patience? If they are responsible, what should we do?....I want to know your opinion.
May 30, 2012 at 4:16 am
Ratul, You raise serious questions every writer has to confront and solve. I can only share with you what I've come to in my own practice. I'm not "blaming only the editors for not publishing them," but rather see it as a reflection of the trend of modernity away from serious engagement. Postmodernism especially has tended in some quarters to frivolity and cynicism, to an extent that can not but have, has had, consequences. My view is that any epic poem that aspires to the name today must confront that type of thing in an imaginative way that charts new ground.
Ultimately, I think the issue of length depends on the subject and how the writer chooses to approach and handle it. If the poem, lyric or epic, is written in the right way, I believe it will win the attention of readers, one way or another, in the end. The compelling weight of vision and language will draw the readers to it.
Herman Melville wrote in a piece about Nathaniel Hawthorne that "The supreme test of a book is that we should find some unusual intelligence working behind the words." It's difficult to identify exactly what that is, long or short, but writers without it are the ones who are boring. Much of the trouble with Western literature, for a long time, has been that it has become so canned and predictable, not at all anything new, challenging, or "unusual." It's easy to blame readers, but there plenty of reasons to spread the blame all around. I believe Melville meant that the real writer will put all that aside and find a way to say something new to be worthy of the attention of readers.
Ultimately, I think the issue of length depends on the subject and how the writer chooses to approach and handle it. If the poem, lyric or epic, is written in the right way, I believe it will win the attention of readers, one way or another, in the end. The compelling weight of vision and language will draw the readers to it.
Herman Melville wrote in a piece about Nathaniel Hawthorne that "The supreme test of a book is that we should find some unusual intelligence working behind the words." It's difficult to identify exactly what that is, long or short, but writers without it are the ones who are boring. Much of the trouble with Western literature, for a long time, has been that it has become so canned and predictable, not at all anything new, challenging, or "unusual." It's easy to blame readers, but there plenty of reasons to spread the blame all around. I believe Melville meant that the real writer will put all that aside and find a way to say something new to be worthy of the attention of readers.
May 30, 2012 at 6:25 am
In my view, although the short story has become immensely popular in the modern age, it has not captured the place of the novel at all. This is quite clear if one looks at the global literary scene. The same is of course not true about the epic which has yielded place to the shorter variety of poetry, such as lyrics, odes, ballads et al. The reason may not be solely the shortage of reading time at our disposal. It is a question of attitudes. If one looks at the epics, especially the ancient epics like the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Iliad & the Odyssey, one finds that they depict a world which is half-historical & half-mythological, where gods & goddesses freely intervene in the affairs of the mortals, where the mortals are heroes of titanic proportions as they have to combat the demons, the giants & other supernatural beings on a regular course. In short, they present an almost primaeval society, iridescent with the colorful descriptions of superhuman actions, efforts & emotions on the part of the mortals, which are almost barbaric in splendour. The conclusions were definitely moral, but the terms of ethics were different those days in the sense that they won't be compatible with modern sensibilities. The modern reader will also not be willing to suspend his disbelief on such a large scale either. On the other hand, if the modern epic strives to be a modern novel in a poetical form, it is likely to be rejected, for it will have quite a few poetical limitations which a novel, as a prose-writing, has long transcended. But the epic may be successfully revived if it has to say something new, as Herman Melville & Frederick Glaysher have said, which appeals to the imagination of the readers.
I am reminded of four lines from Tagore which in my poor translation would be like this:
I also had a mind to compose an epic;
but I don't know when my imagination,
having tinkled against your bangles, (O goddess),
burst into a thousand lyrics.
I am reminded of four lines from Tagore which in my poor translation would be like this:
I also had a mind to compose an epic;
but I don't know when my imagination,
having tinkled against your bangles, (O goddess),
burst into a thousand lyrics.
May 31, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Thank you, Pradip Ray, for sharing your thoughts. You make a good point to bring up the short story and fiction, their respective roles, and other genres and forms. I've thought long and hard about these things and how to attempt to revive the epic, decades, even, really. I'm glad, too, that you bring up the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, because they both play a significant role in my epic, along with many of their characters and ideas. It has always seemed to me that in our ever-increasingly global age, an attempt at a universal epic must embrace the greatest regional epics of the various civilizations, and India contribution is one of the richest veins.
Actually, this morning, I've just finished revising, for the seventh time, Book IX, the third part of which is set at Fatehpur Sikri, so you're catching fresh from Akbar's Court, as it were!
I like your emphasis on "attitude" and, I would say, the mythical dimensions with which Vyasa and the great poets grappled with the antinomies of human consciousness, dramatized them, in moral terms, as you right say. I, too, agree that their moral terms, by and large, though not entirely, are and can no longer be ours. I believe, though, on a universal level, much of their understanding of life remains what human beings today need to recover and reaffirm, without going backwards in a mindless and slavish way. There is great nobility of soul in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, as in Homer and the other epic songs.
To my mind, we have lived into an epic time, in our own terms, universal and global, bearing much that is most worthy of the human being, at his or her best, yet world literature all too often continues to drone on the nihilistic dirges of Nietzsche and company or the small solipsistic obsessions of post-modernism.
So it is a new perspective on our global, modern experience that we need. Lord Apollo wisely called a Parliament of Poets upon the moon to help humanity understand it. As his humble servant, I have tried to write his and their words down to the best of my ability...
I think it's in that realm of Imagination that epic poetry can help to raise men's vision heavenward to the moon, from the moon looking back at our small planet, frail and endangered as it is, by ourselves, the asuras of our own being...
I love your quotation from Tagore... It seems Durga bestowed such an experience upon me that I have long thought that only the epic can possibly bear and convey its weight. I hope someday I might have readers who agree...
Actually, this morning, I've just finished revising, for the seventh time, Book IX, the third part of which is set at Fatehpur Sikri, so you're catching fresh from Akbar's Court, as it were!
I like your emphasis on "attitude" and, I would say, the mythical dimensions with which Vyasa and the great poets grappled with the antinomies of human consciousness, dramatized them, in moral terms, as you right say. I, too, agree that their moral terms, by and large, though not entirely, are and can no longer be ours. I believe, though, on a universal level, much of their understanding of life remains what human beings today need to recover and reaffirm, without going backwards in a mindless and slavish way. There is great nobility of soul in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, as in Homer and the other epic songs.
To my mind, we have lived into an epic time, in our own terms, universal and global, bearing much that is most worthy of the human being, at his or her best, yet world literature all too often continues to drone on the nihilistic dirges of Nietzsche and company or the small solipsistic obsessions of post-modernism.
So it is a new perspective on our global, modern experience that we need. Lord Apollo wisely called a Parliament of Poets upon the moon to help humanity understand it. As his humble servant, I have tried to write his and their words down to the best of my ability...
I think it's in that realm of Imagination that epic poetry can help to raise men's vision heavenward to the moon, from the moon looking back at our small planet, frail and endangered as it is, by ourselves, the asuras of our own being...
I love your quotation from Tagore... It seems Durga bestowed such an experience upon me that I have long thought that only the epic can possibly bear and convey its weight. I hope someday I might have readers who agree...
June 1, 2012 at 6:18 am
I shall eagerly wait for your grand poem, Frederick Glaysher, particularly to see how the Indian allusions are integrated in the epic fabric. The Ramayana & the Mahabharata are two goldmines having provided thousands of writers in all the Indian languages with themes & ideas to compose secondary epics, legions of ballads & lyrical poems, plays, short stories & even novels. They have inspired critical essays ranging from socio-historical writings to psychological analyses of the characters. Your conviction & confidence will surly inspire many others who may be thinking on the same line. And I hope the readers will appreciate your literary vision & your magnum opus.
June 1, 2012 at 8:23 am
I appreciate your good words. I've extensively read Indian literature throughout my life so I do understand and am well aware of what you're saying. Kalidasa's Cloud Messenger comes to mind as a piece I read back in the early 1970s. I hope I've brought some of that long familiarity into my own poem. I've never considered Indian literature, or any national literature, for that matter, as "foreign," but truly "world literature" from a very early age, loathing as a young poet the Western limiting of the term to European, a very myopic conception!
I've strained ever nerve to try to serve the Indian literary tradition in a worthy way, and hope sophisticated readers like yourself will ultimately agree. Since the Persona travels with guiding poets all over the Earth, to each continent, and many cultures, I fear at times that few readers will grasp the universality that is the drive of much of the poem. While I'm hoping readers from each continent will naturally relish the books dealing with their own writers and cultures, I've worked hard to create a wider resonance than any particular one, including the West, especially as the entire Earth is viewed as one from the moon... I think I've developed many strategies to aid understanding but your and other readers' judgment will be, in the end, the real test!
I've strained ever nerve to try to serve the Indian literary tradition in a worthy way, and hope sophisticated readers like yourself will ultimately agree. Since the Persona travels with guiding poets all over the Earth, to each continent, and many cultures, I fear at times that few readers will grasp the universality that is the drive of much of the poem. While I'm hoping readers from each continent will naturally relish the books dealing with their own writers and cultures, I've worked hard to create a wider resonance than any particular one, including the West, especially as the entire Earth is viewed as one from the moon... I think I've developed many strategies to aid understanding but your and other readers' judgment will be, in the end, the real test!
June 1, 2012 at 9:16 am
My best wishes. May Calliope stand by the side of your writing table!
June 1, 2012 at 10:11 am
Ah, she's in my poem! On the moon!!! ...along with the rest of the Nine Muses. Trying to be a loyal servant of all the Muses, East and West, Saraswati plays the vina, standing on a lotus blossom, while Shiva Nataraja dances in the Himalayan foothills for Tagore and me... darshan! You can understand why I worry some Westerners may not make the leap of faith, aesthetically speaking, but I hope they will, that I handle things in such a way that they can...
June 1, 2012 at 10:46 am
You are increasing my interest & curiosity to no end! Let me wait! Best wishes again.
June 1, 2012 at 10:52 am
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With the Troy Interfaith Group, I visited the Jewish synagogue Shir Tikvah in Troy, Michigan, on May 3, 2012, for the 8th National Day of Prayer Celebration, "We Are All God's Children." It was a tremendously successful observance with approximately 175 people in attendance from all religious traditions. Rev. Bob Cornwall of the Central Woodward Christian Church opened the evening on behalf of the Troy Interfaith Group. Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg and his congregation were most cordial hosts. After his opening message and prayer, the Sikh Society of Michigan shared a beautiful shabad or hymn from their scriptures, accompanied by the traditional harmonium. The Ahmadiyya Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, and the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit shared elevating prayers and chants, some sung by their youth. Socializing and refreshments followed, a wonderful evening, as TIG continues its efforts to build understand and respect among the religions of our area and world! https://www.shirtikvah.org
May 13, 2012 at 7:34 am
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With the Troy Interfaith Group, I visited the Jain Temple in Farmington, Michigan, last week. The Jain hosts were gracious and informative. I've visited many houses of worship over the years, on three continents, and found the Jain vision of life and spirituality uniquely beautiful. Jains believe Mahaveer (sometimes Mahavira) was the most recent of what they call Tirkanthars, a type of religious teacher perhaps similar to the Buddha, predating him by more some hundreds of years. They also believe Jain pre-dates Hinduism. Mahaveer is himself preceded by 23 Tirkanthars for a truly sweeping range of cosmic time. A beautiful temple and people, with about 5 to 6 million adherents in India. Welcome to Jain Society of Greater Detroit https://www.jain-temple.org/
May 13, 2012 at 5:34 am
The spelling should be Tirthankar...
May 13, 2012 at 6:16 am
May 7, 2012...
May 13, 2012 at 7:43 am
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My reading from the fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets at the Albany Word Fest, Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Albany, New York, at the Albany Public Library. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. From Book III, still on earth, in the midst of things… YouTube: https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k
April 25, 2012 at 7:03 am
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Just published in Rupkatha Journal, Kolkata, India: "The Poet’s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore," by Frederick Glaysher. "I cannot write about Tagore without writing about what he has meant to me as a poet during the course of more than forty years of reading him. In the early 1970s Tagore became for me a model and mentor, an example of the poet’s life, one which resonated deeply with my own experience, especially in spiritual terms, which I eventually learned was taboo even to mention in the learned halls of American universities, where God was and is usually dead, and no one desiring intellectual respectability had better utter the slightest syllable otherwise…." https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2012/04/05/the-poet%E2%80%99s-religion-of-rabindranath-tagore/
April 10, 2012 at 5:06 am
Congratulations!
April 10, 2012 at 5:38 am
Thanks, I appreciate it... I think we need to remember and honor those writers who strived to find and articulate a humane, spiritual vision of life, all the more now as everything can seem so endangered by the worst within the human being, all around the globe...
April 10, 2012 at 5:54 am
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"Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind." Frederick Glaysher reading from The Parliament of Poets https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4
March 29, 2012 at 11:24 am
Part 2 on YouTube has a "flash" intro of Earthrise Press...
Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mfCaBZYkY&
Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mfCaBZYkY&
April 2, 2012 at 6:44 am
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"Who needs warp drive when I've got Queen Mab, / My escort and midwife of my dreams." Frederick Glaysher reading from the fifth draft of his epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, March 24, 2012. World premiere! FROM Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. 12 minutes. https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4
March 26, 2012 at 8:38 am
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"Rodin's The Gates of Hell" ...III, The Thinker Staring into the portal I see humankind stretched out on the rack of this century, gassed in the trenches of Europe, vivisected in the meat shops of Germany, forced to kowtow in China and India, in Africa and the archipelagoes, by the British, the French, the Japanese, by all those intent on empire, intent on the worship of themselves. Staring into the portal I see ourselves revealed in the terror of what we are, of what we cannot face, cannot bear, try always to ignore, while the cost grows greater and greater, while like Ugolino we grope over the dead, the victims of our rapacity, our devouring lust. “O Master, the sense is hard.” Copyright (c) 1999 Frederick Glaysher https://fglaysher.com/into_the_ruins.html Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011.
February 29, 2012 at 9:13 am
Masterful, Frederick. Loved it.
February 29, 2012 at 9:32 am
Oh and I just checked on Amazon that it's available on Kindle. Shall love to buy it tmrw. :)
February 29, 2012 at 9:32 am
Thank you, Vistasp, for the good words. Helps to know someone's out there! Hope you enjoy my poems... My Rodin sequence has a I & II...
The pictures are from a trip I took to California last summer. I couldn't visit there without making time to see this matchless work of art...
The pictures are from a trip I took to California last summer. I couldn't visit there without making time to see this matchless work of art...
February 29, 2012 at 9:37 am
Not at all Frederick, it's beautifully expressed and that's what the Internet is for. I know instinctively I will love this stuff. :)And the pic is beautiful.
February 29, 2012 at 9:41 am
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Rodin's Paolo and Francesca... "our devouring lust." Copyright (c) 1999 Frederick Glaysher https://fglaysher.com/into_the_ruins.html Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011.
February 29, 2012 at 8:16 am
Damn, that looks like fun!
February 29, 2012 at 8:54 am
...but, ah, they're writhing in Hell! Dante saw them there on his visit... wrought them in immortal song, Rodin in immortal bronze.
February 29, 2012 at 9:16 am
did the sculptor take help from William Blake's paintings? His depiction of hell is quite similar to it.....Nevertheless, it is beautiful!!
February 29, 2012 at 10:54 am
Suggestive comparison... perhaps Blake's a little more mythical, though. Rodin is thoroughly realistic style, and yet there is a phantasmagoria of the mind...
February 29, 2012 at 11:31 am
White's translation:
"There is no greater grief
Than to recall a bygone happiness
In present misery....
While the first spirit told her tale, the other
Wept with a passionate grief that mastered me;
I felt a faintness, as it were of death,
And like a corpse fell headlong to the ground."
It would appear Dante must have had reason to faint...
"There is no greater grief
Than to recall a bygone happiness
In present misery....
While the first spirit told her tale, the other
Wept with a passionate grief that mastered me;
I felt a faintness, as it were of death,
And like a corpse fell headlong to the ground."
It would appear Dante must have had reason to faint...
February 29, 2012 at 1:16 pm
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...while like Ugolino we grope over the dead, the victims of our rapacity, our devouring lust. “O Master, the sense is hard.” Copyright (c) 1999 Frederick Glaysher https://fglaysher.com/into_the_ruins.html
February 29, 2012 at 7:30 am
Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011.
February 29, 2012 at 7:30 am
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Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011. III The Thinker Staring into the portal I see humankind stretched out on the rack of this century, gassed in the trenches of Europe, vivisected in the meat shops of Germany, forced to kowtow in China and India, in Africa and the archipelagoes, by the British, the French, the Japanese, by all those intent on empire, intent on the worship of themselves. Staring into the portal I see ourselves revealed in the terror of what we are, of what we cannot face, cannot bear, try always to ignore, while the cost grows greater and greater, while like Ugolino we grope over the dead, the victims of our rapacity, our devouring lust. “O Master, the sense is hard.” Copyright (c) 1999 Frederick Glaysher https://fglaysher.com/into_the_ruins.html
February 29, 2012 at 7:03 am
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Bronze, of course... The Thinker pondering Hell below... Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011
February 29, 2012 at 6:31 am
Perhaps the greatest art work of the 20th Century. Guernica next comes to mind...
February 29, 2012 at 7:11 am
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One of only two or three full exhibitions, worldwide, of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, July 1, 2011
February 29, 2012 at 5:44 am
Am I right in remembering Ueno Park in Japan and the Louvre?
February 29, 2012 at 6:13 am
...awe-inspiring for me. I first saw it in a special exhibition in Detroit in the early 1980s. I wrote a series of poems about it, in my book Into the Ruins, if interested, "Rodin's Gates of Hell": https://fglaysher.com/into_the_ruins.html
February 29, 2012 at 6:28 am
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A creative mounting of Rodin's The Thinker, from The Gates of Hell. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 11, 2012.
February 29, 2012 at 4:56 am
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Introduction to Reform Bahai Faith, Monday, March 5, 2012, Troy Interfaith Group https://reformbahai.org/blog/2012/02/17/troy-interfaith-group-march-5-2012-intro-to-reform-bahai-faith/ Friends, especially in Michigan, Many of you know that members of the Reform Bahai Faith in Michigan have been participating in the monthly meetings of the local Troy Interfaith Group, at Christian Protestant and Catholic Churches, Mosques, Gurdwara, Hindu Temple, and Unitarian Universalist Churches, among others. Frederick Glaysher, a member of the Reform Bahai Faith in Rochester, Michigan, will be the featured speaker on the Reform Bahai Faith at the Troy Interfaith Group on Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:00 to 8:30 PM, held at Northminster Presbyterian Church 3633 W. Big Beaver Road (2nd church east of Adams Road, south side) Troy Michigan 48084 https://www.troyinterfaithgroup.org/ Mr. Glaysher has been a member of the Reform Bahai Faith since 1976 and is the editor of The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith, available through the Reform Bahai Press https://reformbahai.org/Reform_Bahai_Press.html and other online book sellers. He holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, with course work in religious studies and has taught world religions at the college level. His personal website and info may be found at https://fglaysher.com/about.html All are welcome. Hope you can make it!
February 28, 2012 at 4:42 am
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View from behind Burundi... in the UN General Assembly Hall, where I sat during the afternoon, the UNA Members Day, Feb. 10, 2012. My tweets are available on my Wall (scroll down), if interested in highlights.
February 27, 2012 at 8:24 am
Susana Malcorra, UN Under Secretary-General of the Department of Field Support, on peacekeeping. An out-standing speaker...
February 27, 2012 at 8:29 am
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View from Jamaica... in the UN General Assembly Hall, where I sat during the UNA Members Day, Feb. 10, 2012. My tweets are available on my Wall below, if interested in highlights.
February 27, 2012 at 7:38 am
Ambassador Di Carlo speaking... quoting Kofi Annan, "No government has the right to hide behind national sovereignty"; on Israel and the Palestinians, "need to come to terms."
February 27, 2012 at 7:50 am
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Photo of the rhapsode amphora that I took on a recent visit to the New York Metropolitan Museum. Terracotta amphora (jar). Attributed to the Berlin Painter. Period: Late Archaic Date: ca. 490 B.C. Culture: Greek, Attic ; Gallery 157, New York Metropolitan Museum.
February 27, 2012 at 6:01 am
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Date Taken: July 27, 2009 at 1:34 pm Orientation: 1 Camera Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi Exposure: 1/160 F-Stop: 80/10 ISO Speed: 400 Focal Length: 18/1 |
Side entrance to Dr. Johnson's House...
February 24, 2012 at 10:03 am
Visited that very spot last year! Were you on a walking tour?
February 24, 2012 at 10:14 am
No, just on my own... my wife and I on literary pilgrimage.
February 24, 2012 at 10:24 am
Great! I could easily spend 6 months exploring London . . . enjoy . . .
February 24, 2012 at 10:26 am
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Date Taken: July 27, 2009 at 1:34 pm Orientation: 1 Camera Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi Exposure: 1/250 F-Stop: 10/1 ISO Speed: 400 Focal Length: 22/1 |
Dr. Samuel Johnson's house, 17 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE UK
February 24, 2012 at 9:58 am
Derek Turner 2009... actually, Dr. Johnson appears as a character in an epic poem I'm working on... so maybe someday you can meet him too!
February 24, 2012 at 10:05 am
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At Troy-area Interfaith Group 7th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration, reading Abdul-Baha's Prayer for America.
November 21, 2011 at 7:45 am