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  Farhang - Book One

  Patrick Woodcock

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  Farhang honors the people, places, and things Patrick Woodcock has seen while working as a migrant writer, volunteer, and teacher for almost three decades. This book is the first of three that will celebrate, memorialize, or eulogize the myriad moments that impacted his life while also shaping the shade and content of his writing. Beginning in Poland in 1994 and ending in the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Northwest Territories in 2022, Farhang travels the globe through Lithuania, Russia, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, the Kurdish North of Iraq, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda. From the salt mines in Wieliczka to the dirt paths to the Baraa government school in Tanzania, where he volunteered, Woodcock has tried to honor the moment before it becomes muddled, dulled, or romanticized. Some of the poems are about friends or students, others are about the cracked knuckles of strangers, the crawling and the abandoned. Art, language, architecture, politics, and the suffering from politicians left unchecked are also a focus. Sadly, many of the poems are for friends and locations lost to either time, neglect, or warfare. Farhang tries to chronicle some of what no longer exists or only lives on in the poet’s head and soul.

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  Poems from the Wilderness

  Jack Mayer

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  Wilderness inspired poems composed on the trail by an American doctor/poet, sharing his love of the backcountry, trail-walking, camping, and the “wilderness effect,” a unique sensation of aliveness and deep connection. Mayer’s poetry explores our human experience of the natural world, our intimate and mysterious connections to flora and fauna. It proclaims the opportunity that walking mindfully in the wilderness offers to experience the divine. The uniqueness and intensity of these musings lead his poems to attempt reconciliation of our lived experience with physics, spirit, and music, the latter manifested in his experience of singing to the dying; the wisdom of nature rendered in music and consolation. A few poems are inspired by Mayer’s medical practice. Some spring from his ordinary life and reflections on his childhood and family, which have followed him into the woods. 
  “Ever since Emerson sent American poets into the woods to discover their souls, the connections between language and spirit have been steadily forged on this continent. Jack Mayer is a writer I've long admired, and in these bright, sensuous, deeply reflective poems we encounter a wilderness that exists on many levels: the Vermont trails that he loves, walks and dreams, and the contours of his own expansive spirit. I read these poems with increasing pleasure, and plan to return to them again and again. Mayer is a fine, fresh voice in American poetry.” —Jay Parini, author of New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015 
  “These poems...recall such earlier wilderness poets as Han Shan and Gary Snyder. Like those ancestors’ dispatches from the heights, they combine reflections on time and reality with the glow of physical exertion in the open air. Mayer’s humor also bubbles up in ways that make his voice a distinctive and delightful addition to this lineage.”—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home

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  The Iliad

  Homer Homer

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  "Sing, Goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Achilles..."
  
  Set in the tenth year of the siege of Troy, The Iliad focuses on the "Menin"—the soul-consuming anger—of the Greeks' greatest warrior, Achilles. When the high king Agamemnon dishonors him, Achilles withdraws from battle, leaving the Greek forces to face the devastating might of the Trojan prince, Hector. What follows is a visceral, blood-soaked drama that explores the high cost of pride and the crushing weight of fate. It is a world where the gods walk the earth, where men seek immortality through "Kleos" (eternal glory), and where even the greatest heroes must face their inevitable end.
  
  The Human and the Divine: The Iliad is a masterpiece of dual perspectives. On the ground, men struggle with the physical and emotional toll of war. Above, on Mount Olympus, the gods—from the vengeful Hera to the meddling Aphrodite—manipulate the conflict like a game of chess. This divine intervention raises the stakes from a mere tribal dispute to a cosmic tragedy.
  
  The Shield of Achilles: In one of the most famous passages in literature, Homer describes the forging of Achilles' new armor. The shield is a microcosm of the world, depicting scenes of peace, harvest, and justice alongside the horrors of war. It serves as a haunting reminder of the life and civilization that the heroes are fighting to preserve—or destroy.
  
  Experience the foundational story of Western culture. Purchase "The Iliad" today and witness the dawn of the hero.

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  Come To Tower - Poems with Music...

  Ayse Balkos

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  Finding Freedom in the Face of Grief: A journey of Family and Self-Discovery. Ayse is incredible and she is not even aware of it. 
  Ayse Balkos's first book, Come To Tower, is the poetry collection of a fresh voice of a renegade woman, angry, hopeful, strong, confused, clear and vulnerable. The poems are accompanied by Ash Gray’s beautiful tones of Hummingbird Gibson acoustic guitar, dazzlingly honest, unpretentious and real journey of a soul. 
  A goodbye letter and a fresh new journey. Her voice is elegant, unique and original. This is what a new poetry bursting from raw heart sounds like. 
  Ayse's untamed words and Ash’s melodies will take you on a journey to a different reality. 
  She was born with a sense of void and that void taught her how to listen to her feelings. We are grateful for that sense and pain she had to go through to write these verses. 
  This audio book is an hour long.

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  The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  Oscar Wilde

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  He did not wear his scarlet coat, 
  For blood and wine are red, 
  And blood and wine were on his hands 
  When they found him with the dead, 
  The poor dead woman whom he loved, 
  And murdered in her bed.

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  Questa

  Stephanie Fleischmann

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  Jessie, who hasn’t seen her mother since she was 14, is on her way home, bringing with her a foster child who won’t talk and a runaway they’ve picked up along the way. Meanwhile, her estranged mother awaits their arrival at the bus station in Questa, New Mexico, next to a woman who longs for a disappeared love to return.
   
  
   
  Questa debuted at the historic CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center in New York City in 1991, and received its West Coast premiere in L.A. Theatre Works’ production.
   
  
   
  Recorded at The Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica, in June 1991.
   
  
   
  Directed by Michael Bloom
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  Christopher Dreyer as Albert
   
  Valerie Landsburg as Jessie
   
  Dorothy Lyman as Sophie
   
  Alma Martinez as Swan Lady
   
  Bianca Sanchez as Delia
   
  
   
  Produced for Radio by Steve Barker
   
  Stage Manager: Christopher Fox
   
  Original music by Michele Navazio

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