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  Mianus Village

  Jack T. Scully

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  MIANUS VILLAGE IS a vivid, entertaining  collection of 36 free verse poems that read and sound more like short, short stories than abstract modern poetry. It tells the story of a blue-collar boy growing up in the rough and tumble atmosphere of a Veterans’ housing project in the years following World War II. Set on the banks of Riverside, Connecticut’s Mianus Village, it is reminiscent of the bittersweet, bygone days of our youth and simpler, safer times for our country. This audiobook will be especially appreciated by Baby Boomers whose Greatest Generation parents once saved the world from tyranny and genocide. Author David Huddle describes the book as a celebration of "American innocence, decency, humor, and family life” while simultaneously mourning "their loss." Says author Peter Shea:  "MIANUS VILLAGE is going to sit you down in the easy chair of your mind.  With metric simplicity and an uncanny choice of evocative words, Scully will take you to Mianus Village – a real place for sure, and the setting for many autobiographical tales, but also a place that is emblematic of the commonalities within all of us. "Following a roughly progressive chronology, the work starts with a tale of a great-grandfather with a “brogue, thick as spud stew,” and ends with the death of his mother. Along the way, we meet some of the many characters that peopled his early life: Daddy, who fought “up the boot of Italy,” Gunner, the natural born killer; Dante, who loses a good portion of a digit to Jack’s Bowie knife; the crazy old fisherman Ike, and Eva Ruth, his secret love.”Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, MIANUS VILLAGE will slow down time’s winged flight in your life  and make you a child again—every time you listen to it.

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  The Bhakti Poet Saints

  Mirabai, Kabir, Guru Nanak

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  Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement.  Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. 
   
  Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’ which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.  
   
  The rapid spread, of the Bhakti movement, with its theme of love and devotion to God, proffered by these rebellious poet saints, did, over the following centuries, meld with much needed Hindu reforms and went to the heart of human existence.  These ‘God possessing’ rather than ‘God fearing’ poets rejected hierarchies and intermediaries in their spiritual devotion and were critical of rules, regulations and ritual observances administered by Brahmin priests in the sacred but elitist court and temple Sanskrit.   
   
  Their poems, in their local language, emphasised personal devotion as a route to salvation with kind deeds and a humble life rather than ritual mediation, stretched the fabric of society.  They were all from lower castes and many were women giving the movement an egalitarian spirit that helped reinforce the message that god’s love was all-encompassing for every person willing to surrender to the divine.   
   
  Furthermore, their verse was accessible, simple, innovative with new poetic forms and often expressed in songs with a fierce passion and ecstasy that demonstrated the movement’s focus on inner, mystical and authentic devotion and humility.  Impromptu performances with provocative outbursts of singing and dancing in unconventional settings or public gatherings evolved into poetic presentations and community recitals as the rapid popularity of the movement spread.  Although the language is every day and simple, many verses carry undercurrents of complex ideas, philosophical and psychological dilemmas, nuance and humour. 
  1 - The Bhakti Poet Saints - An Introduction 
  2 - His Ears Ringeth by Sambandar 
  3 - Thiruppavi (An Extract) by Andal 
  4 - Tiruvasiriyam by Nammalvar 
  5 - Navada Bhakti in An Untainted Heart by Gangasati 
  6 - Show Me Your Way Out by Akka Mahadevi 
  7 - Would A Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi 
  8 - The True Name is Like Sandalwood by Namdev 
  9 - Amrutanubhav (An Extract) by Dnyaneshwar 
  10 - Vakh - If in the Flux of Time by Lal Ded 
  11 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded 
  12 - Acceptance by Janabai 
  13 - Where Shall I Go by Ramananda 
  14 - Vaishnav by Narsinh Mehta 
  15 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  16 - Illusion and Reality by Kabir 
  17 - Song 6 - The Moon by Kabir 
  18 - I Laugh When I Hear That the Fish in the Water is Thirsty by Kabir 
  19 - It is the Mercy of My True Guru by Kabir 
  20 - Song 1 - Oh Servant Where Dost Thou Seek Me by Kabir 
  21 - Song 69 - If God Be Within the Mosque by Kabir 
  22 - The Light of the Sun by Kabir 
  23 - You Are Me and I Am You by Ravidas 
  24 - The Name Alone Is The Truth by Ravidas 
  25 - How to Escape by Ravidas 
  26 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 
  27 - Gauri Dipaki Measure by Guru Nanak 
  28 - Shikshashtakam by Chaitanya 
  29 - Mine is Gopal by Mirabai 
  30 - Beloved Mohan by Mirabai 
  31 - Mira is Steadfast by Mirabai 
  32 - I Will Sing the Praises by Mirabai 
  33 - O Deluded Ones by Mirabai 
  34 - Enjoy the Company of True Saints by Mirabai 
  35 - Listen by Mirabai 
  36 - Sister Without the Lord I Cannot Carry On by Mirabai 
  37 - Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas 
  38 - To Arrange Words by Tu

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  Great Poets The: John Clare

  John Clare

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  John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. 
  His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote. 
  But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.
  Public Domain (P)2013 Naxos AudioBooks

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  Do I love thee… …let me count…

  Various Authors

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  Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from Sappho to Shakespeare to Edgar Lee Masters. From Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Sara Teasdale. It includes some poets you might not expect: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Donne, Walt Whitman. It speaks of love gained, of love sought, of love accepted, of love rejected, of love in hate, of love beyond the grave, of love exalted, and of love refused. Every mode and color of love is here, as spoken by great poets of all ages, men and women alike. Enjoy these poems with someone you love, and let their messages sink into your hearts.The poets whose work is included here are:Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare, Edgar Lee Masters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, "anonymous", John Greenleaf Whittier, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainier Maria Rilke, Richard Lovelace, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, Sappho, Walt Whitman, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bronte, Christopher Marlowe, Coventry Patmore, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Dowson, Lord Byron, George Gordon, John Donne, John Lyly, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and William Butler Yeats.

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Holly Williford

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  “Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again… oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can’t just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can’t go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it. Not to mention it completely unravels time, so that there is no existence anymore. So it’s important that you do not try to do this again or I’ll be back to take you back to your time again. 
  “Why don’t you have a seat and I’ll make you a drink while I take you back to your time? I understand wanting to fix seemingly terrible events, and actually recently just tried to alter something minor myself. It wasn’t a historical figure or anything like that. They probably wouldn’t even have noticed, and I am not quite sure yet how they found out. I’m actually going to find out my punishment afternoon. I think I’ll have a drink as well.” 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Lost Bodies: Poems between...

  Heng Siok Tian, Phan Ming Yen,...

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  Four writers. 
   
  Three travelling in Portugal. 
   
  One staying behind to care for his ailing mother. 
   
  One long-distance writing affair. 
   
  The passing of the mother together with memories of other losses and absences come together in Lost Bodies, a meditation on the transience of time and love and an invitation to get away—physically or spiritually—from worldly concerns to explore a different history, a different culture, a different light, laced with dreamy scents and the faint calls of fado.

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