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Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing
postmodern conceptions of life and literature that have become
firmly entrenched in contemporary world culture. East and West meet
in a new synthesis of a global vision of humankind ranging over
classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and
non-Western, from the dilemmas of modernity in Yeats, Eliot,
Milosz, Bellow, Dostoevsky, to Lu Xun, Ryuichi Tamura, Kenzaburo
Oe, Naguib Mahfouz, R. K. Narayan, among others, from mimesis and
deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on
Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature. Clearly the work of
a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human
experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the
Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first
century. All the muck and glory of American and international
experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind
struggling with itself and its Age. Acutely perceptive of the
spiritual and moral nuances of literature, criticism, and culture,
Glaysher confronts the loss of religious faith in the modern world
and breaks through to a vision of the unity of the human longing
for transcendence.
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Collected Poems (Paperback, Revised)
Robert Hayden; Edited by Frederick Glaysher; Introduction by Reginald Dwayne Betts; Afterword by Arnold Rampersad
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Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the
twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work,
collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of
Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus,
Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which was nominated for a
National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American
poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold
Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In
Hayden s work the actualities of history and culture became the
launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His
voice characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for
the formality of pattern is a seminal one in American life and
literature."
The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem, by Frederick Glaysher, takes
place partly on the moon, at the Apollo 11 landing site, the Sea of
Tranquility. 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. All the great shades appear at the Apollo
11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility: Homer and Virgil from
the Greek and Roman civilizations; Dante, Spenser, and Milton hail
from the Judeo-Christian West; Rumi, Attar, and Hafez step forward
from Islam; Du Fu and Li Po, Basho and Zeami, step forth from China
and Japan; the poets of the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana meet on
that plain; griots from Africa; shamans from Indonesia and
Australia; Murasaki Shikibu, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen,
poets and seers of all Ages, bards, rhapsodes, troubadours, and
minstrels, major and minor, hail across the halls of time and
space. One of the major themes is the power of women and the female
spirit across cultures. Another is the nature of science and
religion, as well as the "two cultures," science and the
humanities. That transcendent rose symbol of our age the Earth
itself viewed from the heavens, one world with no visible
boundaries, metaphor of the oneness of the human race, reflects its
blue-green light into the darkness of the starry universe. This
text constitutes the ninth draft.
Moving beyond Postmodernism, overturning the nihilism of Nietzsche,
Peter Marsh, an academic philosopher, weighs modern life in a
conversation with his friend, David Emerson, a businessman. Brought
together after long separation by the brutal murder of Mary, Peter
s wife, a time of devastating loss and crisis, their friendship
inspires a dark night of the soul, during which Peter s meditations
range over several hundred years of philosophy, politics, religion,
social change, the dilemmas of existence, evoking a spiritual
vision of the complexities of the 21st Century, the United Nations,
and global governance.
Drawing on his experience living in Asia and Arizona, as well as
his reading of classical literature, both East and West, Frederick
Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing conceptions
entrenched in postmodernism and postmodernity. In Letters from the
American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and
religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations,
pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle
for spiritual knowledge and truth. Fully cognizant of the
relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a deeper
meaning and purpose for the individual and the world community in
the writings and global vision of Baha'u'llah, as expressed in the
Reform Bahai Faith. Confronting the antinomies of the soul,
grounded in the dialectic, Glaysher charts a path beyond the
postmodern desert. Alluding to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All
Souls Chapel, Glaysher invites readers to consider the implications
of the universal, moderate form of the Bahai Teachings as
interpreted by Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah's son, who had spoken
throughout the West in Europe, England, and the United States from
1911 to 1913. Abdu'l-Baha's message of the oneness of God, all
religions, and humankind holds out a new hope and vision for a
world in spiritual and global crisis. Far from a theocracy, the
Reform Bahai Faith envisions a separation of church and state as
the will of God, in harmony and balance with universal peace, in a
global age of permanent pluralism, in a world of multiplicity,
where religion is a reflection of individual distinctiveness, not
of communal identity.
The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith collects many of
the early writings of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha, published in the
West, seeking to restore and preserve their vision of the oneness
of God, humanity, and all religions. In addition to all of the 1912
Universal Principles of the Bahai Movement, the book includes
Baha'u'llah's Hidden Words, selections known as the Spirit of the
Age, an address by Abdu'l-Baha at the Friends' Meeting House in
London in 1913, and many Bahai prayers for community and individual
worship and meditation. Though beginning in 2004, the Reform Bahai
Faith traces its origin to the early Bahais Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad
Sohrab, and Julie Chanler, who sought to preserve the Teachings of
Abdu'l-Baha after his passing in 1921. They and other early
American Bahais understood the Bahai Faith was being turned into an
oppressive organization, under what the British Museum document
expert Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell judged to be a fraudulent will and
testament. Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Bahai Faith, believed in
and taught a moderate, universal religion, grounded in a separation
of church and state, not a theocracy, and members of the Reform
Bahai Faith seek to recover and renew that saving vision for all
humanity. The newcomer to the Bahai Teachings will find here a
brief but eloquent and inspiring introduction to the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, while people already familiar with it will find a
refreshing breeze has returned to revivify and uplift the spirit.
This book marks the first publication of the Reform Bahai Press,
which will publish several more titles during the next few years.
The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith collects many of
the early writings of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha, published in the
West, seeking to restore and preserve their vision of the oneness
of God, humanity, and all religions. In addition to all of the 1912
Universal Principles of the Bahai Movement, the book includes
Baha'u'llah's Hidden Words, selections known as the Spirit of the
Age, an address by Abdu'l-Baha at the Friends' Meeting House in
London in 1913, and many Bahai prayers for community and individual
worship and meditation. Though beginning in 2004, the Reform Bahai
Faith traces its origin to the early Bahais Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad
Sohrab, and Julie Chanler, who sought to preserve the Teachings of
Abdu'l-Baha after his passing in 1921. They and other early
American Bahais understood the Bahai Faith was being turned into an
oppressive organization, under what the British Museum document
expert Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell judged to be a fraudulent will and
testament. Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Bahai Faith, believed in
and taught a moderate, universal religion, grounded in a separation
of church and state, not a theocracy, and members of the Reform
Bahai Faith seek to recover and renew that saving vision for all
humanity. The newcomer to the Bahai Teachings will find here a
brief but eloquent and inspiring introduction to the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, while people already familiar with it will find a
refreshing breeze has returned to revivify and uplift the spirit.
This book marks the first publication of the Reform Bahai Press,
which will publish several more titles during the next few years.
Beyond postmodernism, Into the Ruins confronts much of the human
experience left out of the balance by postmodern poetry, often
compared to the Alexandrians and the Neoterics, when writers
similarly concentrated on the minor themes of personal life, while
ignoring the challenging experience of the public realm. Suffused
with a global tragic vision, Into the Ruins has its gaze fixed
firmly on the 21st Century.
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