This small collection of poems allowed me the rare privilege of being poetically anchored in a particular time and place, namely, Sarasota Florida and environs in the last quarter of the twentieth century. My love of Sarasota and Florida is a deeply rooted one, more unconscious than conscious if...
This is a prize-winning collection of poems with a special taste. That I think you'll like. I say it has "a special taste" because I hate poems with meaning, with causes, with ideas. I am one of those poets who believe poetry should communicate as directly as an unexpected kiss. If someone were...
This homage to the Great Mother began to take shape when some very peculiar drawings of the nursery characters were given to me by a local artist. Let’s just say they were peculiar enough to set off a whole new parade of characters bouncing around inside my head like they couldn’t wait to get...
This book is a memoir of a very mysterious journey I took when I stumbled upon some translations from Melanisian pidgin (Tok Pisin) of twelve poems written by the Australian aborigine Eldred Van-Ooy. I would suggest anyone who is convinced that this too too solid earth is actually that should...
SOULPRINTS started as a lark one day ago when I became bored waiting for my son Art to complete his business day and go out to dinner. Art always had the latest high tech equipment in his office which included on this day, a brand new state-of-the- art copier that began to draw me to it like the...
This book is about unlocking a source of beauty already within us. A source that has been with us since we first became human. It is the first poetry—a musical, spontaneous poetry that will rise out of us once we reawaken it. I call this poetry SOULSPEAK and its poems, speakings. Some will be...
MIRRORS is an extraordinary book. Not only do we get a chance toread some haunting poems aimed directly at the heart, but we alsoget the author’s incredible account of what happened after thepoems of aborigine Eldred Van-Ooy were sent to him by anAustralian business acquaintance. Of that...