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November 10, 2012 · 10:11 pm

An Afternoon at an Art Exhibition

This afternoon we went to an exhibition by one  of my favorite artist’s.  Marie Brožova is one of my favorite artists for many reasons.  For one, her and her husband Martin are friends of ours, so I’m a bit biased.

Her medium of choice is colored pencils

Still, you can follow the link there and check out her work and judge for yourself.  Some of you will like it.  If you are into rainbows and unicorns and bright colors and fairies and stuff like that, you probably will. If you are looking for black and white charcoal drawings which put the angst of our existence into sharp relief, then it’s not for you.  Looking at her drawings will not depress you at all and you will walk away from the exhibit without being even the slightest bit traumatized, which you may consider a wasted afternoon.

Me, I’m into that kind of thing.

Another self-interested reason for liking her is that we’ve got a couple of collaborative projects going on.  If you go up to the tippy top of this blog page you will see “poetry” on the clicky bar.  That leads you to all my books of poetry, some of which have been published, some not.  There’s one called Tarot Poems.  She translated it into Czech and did the drawings.  At my class on Thursday, the one with 3 second graders, one of them had that book and asked me to autograph it for her.  It’s as close to being famous as I’ve got so far.  Also, my wife and I are busy translating a couple of her books into English.  That’s going to take a while.

She is an incredibly prolific artist.  The pictures just keep pouring out, and she works in public – watching her draw is part of the exhibit.  I asked her once if she knew how the pictures were going to turn out before she started and she said “Down to the last detail,” which  really surprised me.

That’s pretty much the total opposite of the way I write poetry – I never know where it’s going.  I get the first line in and then hope something follows that, and something follows that, until I get to a reasonable point for an ending.

Which is sometimes that I do with this blog, as well.

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July 2, 2011 · 11:31 am

Huge Mega Announcement, Please Read!

The light flows through the water

that is falling through the air

a rainbow is a picture

on a screen that isn’t there

 – Poems from Prague

3 of Swords, from Tarot Poems

I am writing this to announce that all of my poems are online. Well, not quite all, but at least 300-400 of them. Some of them are collected into books, which are available on Amazon. The plan is that eventually they all will be, although a few of them may need to be reworked before then.

In any event, you can read them all for free at http://www.gurukalehuru.com. I know that a lot of you reading this are writers, like me, and I’m guessing that a lot of you reading this are also, like me, less than flush with ready cash to spend on a book of poetry that you may or may not like. So, please, read them first.

If you are among the affluent minority and like the poems, I would be thrilled if you would buy the books, which I think would make lovely gifts by the way.

Here’s the breakdown: There are 3 books which are available already on Amazon. They are “Poems from Prague,” “The Guru Kalehuru and other Poems,” and “The Alchemist’s Notebook.” One more should be there soon, we’re not sure if the problem is with Amazon, Createspace, or something we’ve done. That is “Four Syllables on Water” which is one of my personal favorites, but also somewhat of an atypical style for me.

There are 3 more books which I hope to have available on Amazon by the end of the summer. Those are “The This of the That,” “Willie’s Silly Animal Poems” (which I hope will be popular with kids) and “Vowellery,” which I hope will be useful for students of English as a 2nd language and/or their teachers. It’s not exactly earth-shaking poetry fraught with deep meaning. It’s more of a pronunciation guide.

In addition, there are pages and pages of stuff that hasn’t been organized into book form yet, and I’m adding more all the time. Just finished a new poem today, as a matter of fact.

There is another book, “Tarot Poems”and I’ve only got a small sampling of the poems on my website, because it’s actually much more the artist’s book than it is mine. In a sense, the poems illustrate the drawings, which are awesome. Also, it is more than a book. It is a box set. There is a completely original Tarot deck along with the book, which is both in English and Czech. Information for purchasing that one is also available on my website or, if you happen to be in Prague, you could stop into Marie Brožová’s gallery, at Malé Náměsti 11.

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