WSRadio Interview of Frederick Glaysher, January 11, 2015
Includes a reading of Black Elk on the Moon, discussion of consciousness, world religions, and the universe becoming aware of itself.
“He is the epic poet and visionary, and the author of two extraordinary books, The Myth of the Enlightenment and The Parliament of Poets. I recommend both.”
People Around the Globe Must Change their Thinking
Mother Earth
The first step is people around the globe must change their thinking… That is now in process and can be achieved, with a unifying Vision. When that happens, the “corrupt politicos” will have to change sufficiently if they want power, and they will, because they do, which now can only be held at the indulgence of the people.
For people around the globe to truly change their thinking, and this may be very difficult to understand, but I ask you to think of shamans telling a tale that brings the tribe together in a new understanding or Vision, helps them *feel* it, people need to read the epic poem that I have spent 30 years studying for and writing, a tale of humanity throughout the ages, in the vast expanse of time and space, in global and cosmic Unity, viewing Mother Earth from the Moon… united in a commonly shared Vision of Love.
Everything else has been tried and failed… now trust and mount the shaman path Heavenward to the Moon…
The problem is people must *feel* it and prose is ultimately based only on the reason of the head, not the heart, as poetry is, which is why historically, prior to modern times, it was always considered a form of epistemology, knowledge, a way of knowing that ran deeper than the intellect… It’s why I chose epic poetry because it can speak to the deepest regions of the soul.
The old paradigm of publishing and promotion is still very much in control of the major publications and levers of dissemination of new ideas and books. Unfortunately, most of it, is in the control of corporations that are thoroughly suffused with the atrophied vision of life from modern nihilism and materialism, the latter from both Marxism and capitalism. The world has truly been struggling throughout the last hundred years to achieve another vision of life beyond those old contentious ideologies, truly global and universal in outlook.
We’ve all seen it, from the moon, the great overview Image of Mother Earth, and feel it to some inarticulate degree and level… yet need a tale to help it come into focus… I believe, in our hearts and souls where real change originates and takes place.
Then, it will be easy to transform life on this planet… and care for the needs of all the people of Mother Earth. An epochal shift is what is required, a very deep change or clarification of Vision, which civilization on this planet has repeatedly demonstrated, in the past, when necessary, it is capable of making…
In Performance, on Stage, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, by Frederick Glaysher.
Like a story “around a campfire.” —From the Audience.
“Certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance [boldface added] and the words themselves.” —Thom Francis, Albany Poets News, New York.
Thirty years in the making, in late 2012, I finished and published The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Now after several public readings and as many reviews, my Kickstarter Project is to take it to humanity, in Performance, on Stage, at a Michigan theatre, in 2014. At approximately thirty minutes per chapter, I would read the first three chapters or “Books” of the epic, what has traditionally been called “in medias res,” in the midst of things, a flash-back device, with the action already in mid-stream on the moon.
In ancient Greece, the rhapsodes, reciters of epic poetry, an oral art, traveled throughout the Greek world, from city to city, reciting the tales of Homer and other epic poets. Nearly thirty-five years ago I had a theatre class in the interpretation of poetry that set me to dreaming of writing an epic poem and then traveling worldwide to recite it. Now I am ready, epic in hand, to commence that journey!
I believe that the imagination is at the core of all human endeavor, and that an imaginative vision of a New Global, Universal Vision of Life on this Planet can help inspire people to make it a reality. Together, from the moon, we can see it.
I need your help and support to bring the vision we all long for to the attention of humanity. I am painfully aware that I cannot do it alone. I could study and write alone for decades, needed to, but now I must turn to others to aid me in reaching an audience. I don’t have the financial resources to do it alone. I need $9,625 to take my epic poem to humankind! Please help, if you can…
Please share this Kickstarter Project with friends and family, blogs and elsewhere, the media, whatever you can do, and help get the word out about The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, *in Performance, on Stage*.
I’m very grateful for your help. See you at the Performance! Journey to the moon!
Alas, my Kickstarter Project has failed to reach its funding goal. February 14, 2014
Lord Apollo does not approve of my plan. Seeking his will, I have already dispatched a retainer to the Shrine at Delphi. The oracle hath sent back, once again, this cryptic poem,
Today being the ancient Greek holiday of St. Valentine’s Day, I shall retire to a glade to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, but will mull over his riddle as best I can…
Review by Nana Fredua-Agyeman, Accra, Ghana, Africa. ImageNations.
The Parliament of Poets (2012) is a 294-page epic poem by Frederick Glaysher, which has the moon as its setting and deals with important issues such as science and religion, the current consumerist approach to our economics, profiteering and capitalism, gradual wearing away of morality and spirituality, wars, hunger, general deprivation, race, and more. It is a poem in twelve parts or Books. This review shall be restricted to Book I, which deals with the general issues covered in the individual books, and Book XI, which involves the persona’s visit to Africa and involves Achebe’s character in Arrow of God, the Priest Ezeulu.
As already stated the setting of this epic poem is the moon, specifically, the Apollo 11 landing site. The gathering of ancient and modern poets from both East and West was called by the Greek god Apollo and the Nine Muses. The main subject for discussion is the meaning of modernity and modern day nihilism. Several poets are gathered: Cervantes, Du Fu, Li Po, Vyasa, Tagore, Basho, Saigyo, Rumi, Attar, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Keats, Wordsworth, Jane Austen, African griots and shamans, Balla Fasseke, Merlin, Job, and others. Before these gathering of awe-exuding poets stood the persona – The Poet of the Moon….
…a beautiful poem that falls off the tongue smoothly. …an excellent piece of poetry.”
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity, “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity. “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
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 modern life. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character, the Poet of the Moon, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and […]
A series of two different performances and six lectures, reviving the storytelling role of the ancient Greek rhapsode, and evoking a new global, universal vision of life. Continue reading →
