Earthrise
This world needs a new vision of life.
From the moon, we can see it…
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This World Needs a New Vision
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Poets on the Moon!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
At Apollo 11 Landing Site, Poets on the Moon! (via PR Newswire)
At Apollo 11 Landing Site, Poets on the Moon! (via PR Newswire)
ROCHESTER, Mich., July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The Detroit News headline for Monday, July 21, 1969, reads, “Footprints on the Moon!” I can still vividly recall watching it happen on black and white TV, as a teenager, along with my family and the many millions around the world. It fired my young…
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BOOK III Summer Serialization
At my writing desk, June 21, 2012, putting the last touches to BOOK III for the Summer Serialization
Book III of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem is now available:
BOOK III, THE ARGUMENT:
“Japara and the Persona return to the moon. The Parliament of Poets resumes. The nay-saying druid questions the fitness of the Persona, many rallying to his defense. The dark pit. The journey from Earth to the Moon. A flight with the birds of paradise and the poet Robert Hayden. Twin towers of ascending light. The Nine Muses and Lord Apollo. What is woman?”
The first epic poem in English in 345 years.
https://books.fglaysher.com/
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Finished the Fifth Draft of The Parliament of Poets
Lunar Soil
I finished the entire fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets, after four years of writing, on March 30, 2012. I’d welcome invitations to read from it.
See my reading at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, March 24, 2012, from Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.
“Who needs warp drive when I’ve got Queen Mab,
My escort and midwife of my dreams.”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4
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