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Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes - reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death. The book ends with a series of heartbreaking elegies for the poet's father, unflinching in their grief-stricken gaze. Poems about Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer musing on their art and subversive pastorals on our loss of biodiversity extend Saxton's focus into new areas. ere are dramatic monologues too - a returning cosmonaut disappointed not to be more generously treated; a Polynesian ambassador in Venice in the time of Casanova; a young man who falls for a girl in the American 'Neverglades' and serves with her brother in Viet Nam. Themes include love savoured, compromised or lost; identity, being and nothingness; and faith versus unbelief. In this dazzlingly various collection, plain-spoken storytelling is set against more oblique or lyrical voices, while sonnets, sestinas, villanelles and 'triplets' (juxtaposing conventional and consonantal rhyme) offer the pleasures of accomplished form. The common factor is a vividly observed aliveness, often inflected with wit. Saxton has conjured a teeming world of phenomena, ideas and emotions that never fails to surprise, as well as entertain or move.
I wrote this book to help America, its families, its people and every child, woman and man all over the world now and forever be free to "bloom and grow." We all want the same thing - a better life for our children. We can accomplish this in America and then, throughout the world. America must set the example. The purpose of life is to pursue your dream and acquire knowledge. What is your dream? What are your goals? What are the objectives you need to accomplish to attain your goals and live out your dream? As the wise men that founded our country wrote in America's Declaration of Independence, we have certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. They gave the people of this great land their sovereignty one of our many great gifts. My dream is for every life in this world from the time of conception to have the unalienable right to freedom. Each and every individual has the right to be free and no human being has the right to take away another's freedom regardless of race, religion or place/circumstance of birth; however, what comes with the right to be free is the obligation to productively contribute (work) to make the world a safe, kind, productive and clean place so life on earth improves from one generation to the next and is sustainable until the earth's natural end. We have always and will continue to fight the enemies of this great and noble cause until they see the light and join the cause or the Earth is rid of them. Any one who interferes with or violates the rights of another must be dealt with swiftly and firmly to restore the rights of the violated. We owe this to each other, those who have gone before us, those who have given their life for the cause of freedom and those yet to come. The goal is to make the world a kind, safe, clean oasis in the universe to allow life on earth to be sustainable, improve and gather knowledge until our natural end. With this the goal our first objective is to provide the opportunity/environment for each and every individual to be free. With the goal set and the objective clear, let's scale this back to America today. Democracy provides the right to every American to be free. Our government has over time assumed the roll of deciding what is best for the people when the government is supposed to be responsive to the people. Government serves the people not the other way around. The sovereignty was given to the people in our Constitution and the power in government belongs to the states first and then the federal government. I would like to share with you my dream, goals, objectives and action on how we straighten this out and then share with you some other thoughts about freedom and family. My hope is by reading this book you will find life is simple, you understand the purpose of life is to just have one and that you may do with your life whatever you wish as long as you are free and you are willing to work. After we obtain our code to live by from our parents, we obtain qualifications from schooling, apprenticeship and/or self teaching. We learn. Then, we gain experience by doing. We work. With patience, common sense and a bit of luck we develop wisdom creating our ability to wisely direct ourselves and others by being a leader. It takes time to develop wisdom and become an effective leader and it is not for everyone. A great leader helps people reach their potential not oppress them.
The China Shop Pictures ranges widely in time, space and subject matter, encompassing Jacobite wine glasses, pedagogical horses, a Japanese invention for walking on water, and a medley of viewpoints both famous and anonymous-from Virgil and Gerard de Nerval to a woman who's in love with "the monkey they left on the moon" and a man who complains (unfairly) to a sales assistant that the umbrella he's bought has a design fault.
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