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Critical Essays
Author: Adam Donaldson Powell
& Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback
(pp: 106) ISBN: 978-81-8253-110-9 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1
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days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad,
India Pub. Date: 2008 Condition: New Description: Much
has been written regarding the history and development of
literary criticism, the present "crisis"
precipitated by trends and practices in the areas of
publishing, marketing and distribution, as well as challenges
posed for literary criticism by electronic publishing ...
including a renaissance of the age-old questions regarding
which persons are qualified to write literary criticism, and
the purposes and goals of good literary criticism.
All of these topics,
themes and discussions are actual and important today. My main
concern is to provide authors of literary works (poetry, short
stories, novellas, essays, novels etc.) and independent
presses and facilitators of self-published books of quality
with a new form of literary criticism: which is informative,
which incites debate, which challenges author and reader, and
which provides entertainment, but which at the same time
functions as a marketing tool and an opportunity for authors
to consider their own development and accomplishments from the
perspective of another literature enthusiast. I review both
first-time authors and authors who have written dozens of
books, assess individual books as well as compare several
books by the same author, and sometimes follow a specific
author’s development from book to book.
All literary criticism
is subjective by definition. However, it can be helpful for
both author and readers of literary criticism to discover new
ways of perceiving their own writing, and writing in general.
I am not an English professor, or even an English major. I am
an author, and yet another who constantly struggles with the
same questions, choices and challenges all authors confront.
It is my experience that reviewing others’ writing gives me
greater insight into my own. This is (for me) an ever-going
process of personal and artistic development.
Lastly, I would like to
say that I consider literary criticism to be an art form in
itself – a form for expression that is constantly stretching
and yawning, recollecting older traditions and recognising the
contemporary and the visionary in authors, and sometimes
making associations between diverse forms of artistic
expression and artistic disciplines. However, reading a book
review or a piece of literary criticism is no substitute for
reading the book, and is not a prerequisite either. Literary
criticism is only a personal guide and commentary ... a short
essay containing the reviewer’s thoughts and reactions to
having read a work (or works) of literature by another author.
— Adam Donaldson Powell
As a reviewer I always
try to promote understanding and enjoyment of literature. A
literary critic should always aim at reconstructing the mind
of the creative artist as manifested in his or her manuscript.
The vast field of an artist’s mind is revealed only when we
discover ‘wisdom of the ages’ in his work. "The past
is altered by the past as much as the present is directed by
the past." In my critical review of the creative artists
included in Critical Essays I have kept the attitude of a
careful searcher or explorer. The main concern is to search
the intrinsic and unique strength of the poet or short-story
writer. An immortal poet always uses language "charged
with meaning to the utmost possible degree" (Ezra Pound),
and his poetry is "the storehouse of recorded
values" (F. R. Leavis).
— Santosh Kumar
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LE PARADIS (PARADISE)
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Author: Adam Donaldson Powell Binding: Paperback
(pp: 80) ISBN: 978-81-8253-103-1 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad,
India Pub. Date: 2008 Condition: New Description: Le
Paradis is a 100% fictional work, touching on many issues in
today’s French Polynesia: poverty, wealth, ecology,
mythology and the conservation of culture and tradition (au
sujet de la pauvreté, de la richesse, de l’écologie, des
légendes, et de la conservation du patrimoine culturel). It
is my hope that this work will evoke interest regarding both
the threats and consequences of modernisation, ecological
disasters and materialism for delicate small societies outside
the mainstream political, economic and cultural structures
propagated by the large and powerful countries of the world.
Many of these "peripheral" societies are struggling
to maintain their traditions and cultural specificities. I
would further venture to suggest that we who live in the large
agenda-setting centres of modernisation, military and economic
power and globalised culture have much to learn from these
small societies in the far corners of the world, and that the
survival of the Earth itself may be contingent upon a
willingness to learn simpler and more holistic and
interpersonal approaches to life, culture and spirituality.
This time I have chosen French Polynesia as the
geographical/cultural entity that serves as a background for
the abovementioned message; however, it could just as well
have been another set of islands, or another remote society.
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Rapture:
endings of space and time
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Author: Adam Donaldson Powell Binding: Paperback
(pp: 86) ISBN: 978-81-8253-082-9 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2
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India Pub. Date: 2007 Condition: New Description: At a time when it would seem that humanity now needs art and poetry more than ever, the profession of poetry has perhaps never before seemed so much of a useless occupation from an economical perspective. And yet the number of aspiring professional, amateur and “closet” poets seems to increase -- all across the world. In a rapid-paced environment where the Internet has “foreclosed” on both newspapers and long novels, and where coming to the point in a cost-effective way is the norm for all forms of communication (“time is money”), poetry has begun to regain an important status as a means of quickly conveying ideas and feelings and of providing recreation and diversion in small doses. The prevalence of storytelling as a form in today’s poetry attests to this new need for economizing literary access to both information and escape. At the same time, another new form of poetry has re-emerged in recent years: rapturous poetry, i.e. “active” poetry which is akin to free prose written in an economical style and format. Rapturous poetry is actually nothing new – even in the English language. I personally consider much of Walt Whitman’s poetry to be “rapturous” in both style and form, as in Whitman’s poem “Poets to come!” from “Leaves of Grass”.
By rapturous I mean “enticing”, “actively engaging” and “transporting”. In this day and age it can be argued that rapture is perhaps more identifiable with a contagious sense of conviction and the power of sentimental persuasion rather than overbearing romanticism, and religious or sensual ecstasy. The drive to live, to create, to experience and to convey one’s feelings, thoughts and experiences in an unfolding and captivating fashion is evident in all who wish to leave their signature upon the annals of history – if even for a brief moment in time. This is the “passion” of the 21st century. It is not necessarily an ego trip, but perhaps an attempt to both justify and verify life itself at a time when the value of human life and nonconformity are increasingly challenged.
There exists a poet in each and every one of us – oftentimes in seclusion, but nonetheless scratching and clawing for release and self-expression. It is to this end that I have written the following poems, dedicated to the poet in us all – wherever and whomever we may be.
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Three
Legged Waltz
Author: Adam Donaldson Powell Binding: Hardback
(pp: 80) ISBN: 81-8253-058-X
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Description: Adam Donaldson Powell's fourth book of poetry, Three-legged Waltz, is inspired by the masterful works by composer Maurice
Ravel: "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" and "Gaspard de la Nuit". In this volume of poetry and reviews, Powell transforms the formerly
"useless occupation" of the waltz into a multicultural and trilingual dance suited for modern times. With original poetry, his poetry
in translation and his reviews in Spanish, English and Norwegian, Adam Powell invites the reader to dance both on the periphery
and in the heart of an increasingly globalized literary world.
His partners in this three-legged waltz are three poets
(María Cristina Azcona, Diane Oatley and Susan Morales Guerra) who
have each written a preface in one of the book's three languages, and have otherwise contributed their literary and translation
talents. On the sidelines, watching this sometimes decadent and sometimes luscious waltz is the Chilean-born writer
Fernando Rodríguez who has contributed with editorial and translation assistance.
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El Último Tango
Las reglas más importantes
Con respecto a la vida
Nos fueron reveladas unos momentos
Antes del amanecer en
Una de las grandes avenidas
Que siempre están en discordia
Con la logica de las cosas útiles:
El vino joven ..
El sexo promiscuo ..
Las compras compulsivas
Y quizás .. el ir a la iglesia
En un día de trabajo.
Nos reconocemos en los
Sueños vivos capturados en
Las pinturas de Goya y El Bosco.
Y allí, bailamos nuestro último tango;
Lenta ..
Y religiosamente ...
Y huimos de la memoria exacta
A la sombra de nuestras
Últimas
Indiscreciones.
Three-legged Waltz
Well hidden behind the portals
Of passionless and watery eyes
The incessant carousel of an insomnious
Three-legged waltz is revealed with
Childlike vision; hypnotically in
Syncopation with the murmur
Of the inviolate ticking clock.
In this surface-like existence, well
Beyond resistance and emotion,
Every attempt to break through is
As futile as punching a pillow
Or screaming in a dream.
And in the absence of promise we
Eventually find solace in our perpetual
State of existentialism and blues --
And pretend not to recognize the
Everpresent and bittersweet
Scent of lemons exuding from
Each and every passerby.
Edderkoppkvinne
Du, edderkoppkvinne.
Som bestandig er iblant
De best kledde i byen,
Men som aldri bruker
Penger når du er ute.
Du, edderkoppkvinne.
Så sjenert at gutter
Leter etter deg inntil
Du fanger dem.
Du, edderkoppkvinne.
Så ensom. Så lei.
Så redd for deg selv.
Du edderkoppkvinne.
Er det rart, eller ...?
Adam Donaldson Powell has previously published "Collected Poems and Stories" (Cyberwit),
"Arcana and other archetypes" (AIM Chapbooks) and "Notes of a Madman" (Winston-Derek
Publishers, Inc.
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Collected Poems and Stories
Author: Adam Donaldson Powell Binding: Paperback
(pp: 175) ISBN: 81-8253-028-
8 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad,
India Pub. Date: 2005 Condition: New Description: Adam Donaldson Powell is a professional writer, painter and international activist, working within the areas of art and culture, immigration politics, gay politics, health
issues and assorted other sociopolitical issues etc. He was born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York, USA and is a naturalized citizen of Norway.
The
book has been Dedicated to the memory of Tor Vågli (1949 - 2004)
and the countless Asian tsunami victims of 2004.
Review
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Adam Donaldson Powell's Publishing (and stage
performance) Credits:
ADAM DONALDSON POWELL:
Author of
novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays, literary
criticism and photobook criticism. He
is also a visual artist (painter and internet photographer),
and has previously worked professionally in
the following artistic disciplines: classical music and
theatre/dance (in the USA and Norway). Adam
Donaldson Powell writes and publishes his literary works in
several languages, primarily including: English,
Norwegian, Spanish, French.
Book
publication (to date):
Critical
Essays, literary and photobook criticism by Adam Donaldson
Powell and Dr. Santosh Kumar, 108 pages, Cyberwit.net,
India, ISBN 978-81-8253-110-9.
Le Paradis (Paradise), 80 pages, Cyberwit.net, ISBN
978-81-8253-103-1, 2008, India. Includes a booklet with
symbols from The
Universal Language of Light, as seen by Laila Holand.
Rapture: endings of space and time (86 pages), Cyberwit,net,
ISBN 978-81-8253-083-6, 2007, India.
Three-legged Waltz, (80 pages), Cyberwit.net, ISBN
818253058X, 2006, India.
Collected Poems and Stories, (175 pages), Cyberwit.net, ISBN
8182530288, 2005, India.
Arcana and other archetypes, (special limited edition -
hardback collection of poetry), AIM Chapbooks ANS, 2001,
Norway (now out-of-print).
Notes of a Madman, (hardback collection of poetry),
Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc., 1987, ISBN 1-55523-054-7,
USA (now out-of-print).
Other literary
publication:
Essays,
literary criticism and photobook criticism by Adam Donaldson
Powell has appeared in many literary magazines, literary
websites, newspapers etc., including but not limited to:
Ginyu,
Los Muestros, Lynx Online Literary Magazine, Skyline Review, Taj
Mahal Review, Samora Magazine, Kritya: a journal of poetry,
Writer’s Cramp, Portugal News, Skyline Magazine's and
Hudson View Poetry Digest's literary criticism website etc.
Adam has reviewed many talented authors, including: Albert
Russo, Pradip Choudhuri, Jan Oskar Hansen, Shirley Bolstok,
Robert P. Craig, Mary Barnet-Schiff, Literary House Review
2007, Orania Hamilton, Geert Verbeke, Barbara Elizabeth
Mercer, Alan D. Busch, Fernando Rodríguez, Victoria
Valentine, Vijaiganga, Marie Mappley, Robert M. Wilson,
Linda A. Peters, Santosh Kumar, Ban'ya Natsuishi, Susan
Morales Guerra, Sayumi Kamakura, Moshé Liba etc.
Adam has written prefaces for books, and edited novels and
books of poetry, as well as individual poems and short
stories, written by several other authors.
Adam’s own poetry, artwork, stories and novellas have
appeared in several literary reviews and journals,
anthologies, online magazines, literary websites etc. on
several continents.
Distinctions
and memberships:
Recipient of
Norwegian Foreign Ministry's travel stipend for authors,
2005.
MEMBER OF:
BONO
World Poets Society
Poetas del Mundo
Norwegian P.E.N.
Bilingual MCA
IFLAC-Argentina
Poetry performance:
Adam has
performed his poetry in English, Spanish and Norwegian, and
at various venues
from New York
City to Oslo to Buenos Aires to Kathmandu to ...
See Adam's website: www.adamdonaldsonpowell.com
for examples of his writing, his
visual art
and for comments on / reviews of his poetry by others.
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