Member: fglaysher

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Tagsbeyond postmodernity (5), earthrise press (4), global tragic vision (3) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Farid al-Din Attar, Matsuo Basho, Saul Bellow, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fu Du, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Hayden, Homer, Bo Li, Czeslaw Milosz, John Milton, Francois Rabelais, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, William Shakespeare, Sin-liqe-unninni, Jonathan Swift, Virgil (Shared favorites)

About me As long as I can remember, I have been struggling to move beyond postmodernism and postmodernity.

I privately studied writing at the University of Michigan with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden’s Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright).

I lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan--in Japan, where I taught at Gunma University in Maebashi; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi; ultimately returning to my suburban hometown of Rochester.

A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, I studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, I further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.

I've been an outspoken advocate of the United Nations and was an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000).

My books include,

Letters from the American Desert: Signposts of a Journey, A Vision. Preface. Earthrise Press, 2008. 172 pages.

The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture. Earthrise Press, 2007. 337 pages.

The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem. Earthrise Press, 2002. 71 pages.

Into the Ruins: Poems. Earthrise Press, 1999. Preface. 73 pages.

Brief Bio
http://www.fglaysher.com/bio.htm

About my library A lot larger than I can post on here for free.... but, basically, literary, West, East, whatever. Categories have always annoyed me. Cliques, coteries, isms, etc. I don't think most writers worth reading ever cared about those classroom props. They stand in the way, as they always have, of new forms of experience, consciousness, and writing--stand in the way of a new vision of what it means to be human, in the way of a new future receiving a hearing and being understood. The chestnuts of postmodernism all come down to that. They very much stand in the way today. Lived experience is what counts. It's changed, but our thinking hasn't sufficiently caught up. Especially in academia.

The publishers and newspaper and library reviewing venues of today are atrophied, imposing exhausted visions, keeping the patient on life support. The gatekeepers are defending the decrepit gates, dilapidated as they are, while writers increasingly walk or surf around them.... LibraryThing, and sites like it, have a chance to play a role in moving into the future, where the individual writer breaks free of the tyranny of exploitation represented by the illiterate publishing conglomerates, and others, scratching one another's backs.

I would say, though, that LibraryThing is itself still too tied to the old paradigm. With Jason Epstein, it must fully embrace the logic of the Post-Gutenberg Age. The publisher / reviewer / librarian gatekeeper relationships represent a deleterious intervention between writers and readers, often now imposing and protecting politically correct conceptions, suppressing others. While Epstein's Espresso Book Machine and POD will have to battle it out, or share the turf, amongst themselves and ebooks (devices like Sony's Reader, on which I have over 500 books, may give them both a run for the money)--it's clear the rule of the age-old emperor is changing.

It's already happened with music. What are readers waiting for?

The Mission of Earthrise Press
http://www.fglaysher.com/Mission.htm

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Real nameFrederick Glaysher

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Member sinceJun 15, 2007