Kirjahaku

A joyfully quirky and colorful fine-art tarot deck and guidebook focusing on awakening creativity as a path of self-realization. The creation of The Radiant Tarot deck was born from the author and artist's years of working with archetypal images, the universal symbolic language. Sentient animal and plant kingdoms animate the artwork, honoring and acknowledging the interconnectedness of all life. The art is inspired by "Gaia mind," where all creation's forms--animal, vegetable, mineral--affect our precious planet in life-supporting ways. The words of Rainer Maria Rilke "the animal world?beholds the Open" invite us to understand this renowned poet's insistence that "one must know animals, must feel how the birds fly, and know the gestures with which small flowers open in the morning." William Blake speaks of "animal forms of wisdom," says that "Nature is Imagination itself." It is the creative energy of these master artists drawn from the natural world that inspire The Radiant Tarot.

The Golem of Los Angeles is the 2006 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award winning poetry collection by Tony Barnstone. "Tony Barnstone’s poems are besotted with the world—slot machines in Vegas, ants and centipedes and rivers, fires and beaches and “filtered forest light,” love in its carnal splendor, and the charnel squalor when love dies. Yet the Contents page in The Golem of Los Angeles—full of Psalms, Parables, Testaments, Sermons, Sutras, even the occasional Spell—makes clear that Barnstone’s deepest impulse is religious: to praise and to pray. I praise this book. May it fly, reader, into your hand." —Charles Harper Webb

Utilizing the work and thought of William Carlos Williams, this book delves into the battle between science and the humanities over cultural authority. It argues that argue many modernists in the arts and humanities sought to find areas of commonality between apparent opposites (narrative and quantitative discourse, intuition and external observation, the creative process and scientific method, the avant-garde and scientific innovation). William Carlos Williams was deeply concerned with finding such commonalities, in part because of the binary split of his own professions. He was a major modernist writer with a passionate humanist faith in the power and importance of the arts, but also a doctor whose positivist medical training schooled him to see science as the only truth. How he negotiated these warring discourses is, in microcosm, the story of technoscience and its arguments with and compromises with the humanities and arts.

Poetry. This book won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by B. H. Fairchild, who writes in his foreword, TONGUE OF WAR is one of the most distinctive manuscripts I have ever judged for a book prize (And it is a book rather than simply a collection). Barnstone writes that he intends TONGUE OF WAR as a love letter to the World War II generation. But he explains, I see the sequence as a history in verse in which I allow the readers to inhabit multiple and warring perspectives on the War in the Pacific, including the Pearl Harbor attack, Hiroshima, and the conflict in between. Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler writes that Barnstone has revealed humankind's capacity both for evil and for redemption with a power that few writers have ever achieved.