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Succeeding Petals
- Author(s):
- Steve McCarty (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Poetics and Poetry
- Subject(s):
- Mysticism, American poetry, Twentieth century, Religious poetry, Short stories, Poetry
- Item Type:
- Poetry
- Tag(s):
- mystical experience, 20th-century American poetry, Short story (genre)
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/3q8m-0h44
- Abstract:
- The author's second volume of poetry, composed in Honolulu from 1973-1977, starting with a short story written in Boston in 1970, typeset by hand, "The Parable of the Lion and the Fish." Mystical selections from the 1977 self-published book have titles like "A Prosem on the Meaning of Religion," "Wake up God," "Look Directly at Life," "We Are the Meaning of Existence," "The River Now," and "Honesty is Truth."
- Notes:
- The author has long hesitated to look back upon the ostensible fallow period of his 20s before his academic career in Japan. Can it be the same person? Opening these frayed volumes is a grateful catharsis, while perhaps communicating visions that have stood the test of time.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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