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Now an ePub on Kobo and Google Play, The Parliament of Poets

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

Now an ePub on Kobo and Google Play, The Parliament of Poets

Kobo (many devices, iPad, smartphones, tablets, etc.)
https://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Parliament-of-Poets/book-o0H_nhEHWkqOyyVMFD1LWg/page1.html

Google Play (many devices, iPad, smartphones, tablets, etc.)
https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Frederick+Glaysher

Both ebook sellers have numerous affiliates around the world and with time availability of my epic poem will spread to them as well. They both also provide their ebook list to independent booksellers and local bookstores in the USA. For one list, see IndieBound.

With the full setup now on Kobo and Google Play, I consider my epic poem fully published and distributed. I don’t anticipate making it available through other outlets. I have all the bases covered, if you will, to my satisfaction–Amazon, hardcover and Kindle; Barnes & Noble, Hardcover and Nook ePub; Kobo, ePub; Google Play, ePub. Through Ingram’s Lightning Source, the epic is available worldwide, or will be soon, as a hardcover book, through many booksellers in the USA, the United Kingdom, all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, India, and many more locations. For specific countries, see my web site page, Order Books.

I don’t really like the way Apple allows independent publishers to place their books on iTunes, i.e., through Smashwords, which has a stigmatizing association that I don’t think highly of and uses what I consider to be an inferior format to the ePub2 that I want my ebooks published in. The reader deserves the best. If iTunes were to allow writers to publish directly through an Apple account, I would then make my books available on it. Unless or until that happens, readers with Apple devices can read my ebooks through the apps for Kobo, Google Play, and Kindle, or the hardcover.

Frederick Glaysher

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Now on Barnes and Noble, Hardcover & Nook, The Parliament of Poets

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

Now on Barnes and Noble, Hardcover & Nook ePub, The Parliament of Poets

Apollo, the Greek god of poetry, 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. The Parliament of Poets sends the Persona on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and wisdom traditions of humankind. On Earth and on the moon, the poets teach him a new global, universal vision of life.

Hardcover & Nook ePub:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-parliament-of-poets-frederick-glaysher/1112448232?ean=9780982677889

LibraryThing Review:

“A wonderful book. As a fan of poetry and especially epic poetry I found this book to be up to the standards set by Homer. I met some new poets that I have looked up and added to my collection. This book also is very thought provoking as it brings into question what humanity is doing to the Earth and each other. I highly recommend it.” (  )
  vote |   wtshehan | Oct 25, 2012

 

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Now on Amazon, Hardcover & Kindle, The Parliament of Poets

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

The Parliament of Poets, An Epic Poem, Hardcover, now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Parliament-Poets-Epic-Poem/dp/098267788X/ref=la_B001H6P3K8

 

The Parliament of Poets, An Epic Poem, Kindle, now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Parliament-Poets-Epic-Poem-ebook/dp/B00AAQCCU0

 

LibraryThing Review:

“A wonderful book. As a fan of poetry and especially epic poetry I found this book to be up to the standards set by Homer. I met some new poets that I have looked up and added to my collection. This book also is very thought provoking as it brings into question what humanity is doing to the Earth and each other. I highly recommend it.” (  )
  vote |   wtshehan | Oct 25, 2012

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Joseph Campbell, Earthrise–The Dawning of a New Spiritual Awareness

Earthrise

Earthrise

I’ve found myself over the years repeatedly going back to a few of Joseph Campbell’s books and articles. Among them, of course, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and his 1979 article “Earthrise–The Dawning of a New Spiritual Awareness,” reprinted in Thou Art That (2001), which I’ll let here speak for itself:

“Men stood on the moon and looked back and by television we were able to look back with them–to see earthrise….

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. There is no division and all the theological notions based on the distinction between the heavens and the earth collapse with that realization. There is a unity in the universe and a unity in our own experience….

Symbolically, the same tradition suggests the return of Mother Earth to the heavens, the very thing that has occurred because of our journeys into space….The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth–that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us…….the Space Age reminds us that it must come from within ourselves. The voyages into outer space turn us back to inner space.As Thomas Merton wrote, a symbol contains a structure that awakens our consciousness to a new awareness of the inner meaning of life and reality itself. Through symbols we enter emotionally into contact with our deepest selves, with each other, and with God–a word that is to be understood as a symbol.”

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