Franz Kafka wakes up from a nap to discover that he occupies a bed at a homeless shelter called the "Roach Motel," in the year 2015, and no one could be more surprised than he. Computers, television, Smartphones, rock bands, urinals: what can it all mean? Under threat of the madhouse for believing that he is Franz Kafka, he makes his escape into a world and a cast of characters he could hardly have imagined. What will he do with his time now that he is stranded in Richmond, Virginia? What is this new world like in which he finds himself? How will he ever make his way back to 1920? In the end,...
Franz Kafka wakes up from a nap to discover that he occupies a bed at a homeless shelter called the "Roach Motel," in the year 2015, and no one could ...
Late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I an anthology of pirated poems was published in London. It was almost immediately called in by the authorities. Only a tiny number of copies still exist.
Among the pirated poems were anonymous songs and sonnets, one of which fits the profile, established and fine-tuned by centuries of scholars, for Shakespeare attribution like no other candidate for the past 300 years. Discovered: A New Shakespeare Sonnet follows the trail of people and events that resulted in the publication of the anthology and documents the perfunctory treatment of...
Late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I an anthology of pirated poems was published in London. It was almost immediately called in by the authoritie...
The formal diagnosis of Autism was not established until about 1940. The idea of a spectrum of autistic experiences came still later. But surely High Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome existed before their diagnoses were formulated.
Henry David Thoreau and Two Other Autistic Lives offers three names from history that can verifiably be shown to have exhibited unmistakable, detailed, high functioning autistic personal behaviors. Henry David Thoreau, the highly eccentric poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, and the renowned chemist Henry Cavendish: their stories, and the...
The formal diagnosis of Autism was not established until about 1940. The idea of a spectrum of autistic experiences came still later. But surely Hi...
"Mind Dance is an impressive collection of poems that draw on the formal poetry tradition but are not limited by it. Purdy is innovative with form and content, and he can sustain a complex, extended meditation more cogently and movingly, than all but a handful of his peers." -A. M. Juster
Mind Dance is a book of poems that celebrates the poetry and rhythm that suffuses all of life from the subatomic particle to the human being. It is a contemporary Metaphysical Poetry, filled with images from our sciences and rhythms suggesting the energy and variety of life...
"Mind Dance is an impressive collection of poems that draw on the formal poetry tradition but are not limited by it. Purdy is innovative wit...
"Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?" fr. Shakespeare Sonnet #76 "Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, ..." fr. Shakespeare Sonnet #110 What do you think? Did a London street hustler, from nearby Stratford-on-Avon, with no more than an eighth grade education write the works of Shakespeare? How about a reckless, brilliant Earl who lived many strange adventures and turned to writing, under a pen name (in order to avoid...
"Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and wher...
