{"id":2325,"date":"2015-02-05T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2015-02-12T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T13:11:17","slug":"reviews-brief-february-5-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2015\/02\/05\/reviews-brief-february-5-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews in Brief to February 5, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Selected Reviews of <em>The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem<\/em> in Brief to February 5, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beautiful poem&#8230;an excellent piece of poetry.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Nana Fredua-Agyeman, Ghana, Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A great epic poem&#8230;&#8221; \u2014<strong>Dr. Hans-George Ruprecht, Carleton University, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bravo to the Poet for this toilsome but brilliant endeavour.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Umme Salma, International Islamic University, Bangladesh, in Transnational Literature, Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A uniquely powerful work&#8230;.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Spirituality Today, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;maybe it is poets and philosophers, rather than activists and politicians, who can ultimately help transform this world into something better.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Mr. P. J. Morris, Amazon UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A masterpiece that will stand the test of time.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Poetry Cornwall<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1436\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PP_200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1436\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PP_200.png\" alt=\"The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be intimidated by an epic poem. &#8230;in the most beautiful, mellifluous language.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Miriam Knight, New Consciousness Review radio, Portland, Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Like being enfolded into a glorious, celestial, orchestral song&#8230; A worthy literary masterpiece&#8230; Amazing, wonderful book.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><strong><em style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Julie Clayton,\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #000000;\">New Consciousness Review<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beautiful book.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Dr. Catherine Al-Meten, The Examiner, Portland, Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the poetry and language is rather beautiful. &#8230;it\u2019s really very readable.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Chris Hislop, Savage, London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;a very important book for our time.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Tina Benson, Amazon Review, California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A contemporary classic! Highly recommended for reading.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Nishat Haider, Lucknow University, India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;fascinating juxtapositionings, and unique symbolism for our time.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Dave Gordon, The Jewish Post and News of Winnipeg, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found this book to be up to the standards set by Homer.&#8221; \u2014<strong>LibraryThing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longer excerpts with links on my homepage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Beautiful poem&#8230;an excellent piece of poetry.&#8221; \u2014Nana Fredua-Agyeman, Ghana, Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2015\/02\/05\/reviews-brief-february-5-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[804,29,186,184,475,232,806],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-parliament-of-poets","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}