Images In Juxtaposition

About the Book

Imagine, reader, that your “poetry engine” has stalled.  What you need is a creative battery jumpstart. This book will do it with you.  From the “Flight Poems of the Imagination” to “Live with a Thorned Heart,” “Everywhere Past the Galaxy,” these poems attempt to feed and characterize what becomes beauty in images into the profound and ideal, guided by a “Student of Life,” pointing to the masters, in an ever- brocaded journey into rhyme and sound; you’ll find yourself tasting of a higher power of the divine citing itself somewhere in time before beginning, before the bang.  Those fragile words go forth to enrich those who might embark on eternity to find themselves and their deity.  Sort or long the verses fall from a poetic heaven, as drops of rain in a storm, as a prelude to life, yet to be.  Put yourself in the cockpit, off to find a brilliant star cluster, as far off as you’ll go, where even the imaginings run dry.  Counsel your peers; bring up your dregs.  Carve out an empire rivaling Alexander, The Great still needs to be done.  Go with God!

About the Author

Conceived as a baby boomer in southern California, born in Pennsylvania, and between I went over the Rocky Mountains in my father’s Model “A” Ford named “Clompetida.” My father was a grade school friend and my grandmother worked as a domicile with the late Marlon Brando and his family.  I became an Eagle Scout in Staten Island, New York city and in Meadville, Pennsylvania.  I’ve assisted at over 5,200 lifetime Roman Catholic masses.  The family (with mom and dad) moved thirteen times in our first seventeen in various places in the U.S.  At the University of Notre Dame, which I put myself through financially, I became fluent in Spanish and French language with a native Colombian accent and a southern French accent, and with a year living abroad.  As a graduate student at five other colleges and/or universities, I studies poetry under Dr. John Matthias who read before the Queen of England in the 1960s; also, I wrote advanced calculus at Cal Berkeley 1973. I also raised 100,000 California red worms that I bought in what would become the “Silicon Valley.” By 1968-71 with Dr. John Dunne at N.D, I passed over into eastern religions and returned to Catholicism with new insights.  My teacher, professor Walter Langford, took fifteen of us to Cali, Colombia for a year.  He had started the Peace Corps for JFK in Chile.  I, myself, was arrested illegally with doctor Spock, the pediatrician, in May Day 1971.  After Notre Dame graduation, I traveled 22,000 miles hitch hiking around the U.S. and down into Mexico and Colombia.  I am 34 years diagnosed schizoaffective. Since 1972 Jesus Christ is my highest power.  This is my third publication with AuthorHouse publisher.