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ISSN:
0974 - 0023
VOLUME
1 NUMBER 1 JAN. 2008
Editor: Dr.
Santosh Kumar ISSN:
0974 - 0023 (pp: 266) Publisher: Cyberwit.net,
India Pub. Date: 2008 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Binding: Paperback
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The birth of Harvests
of New Millennium was inspired by a very wise
suggestion of AZsacra ZARATHUSTRA that Cyberwit
should launch a new journal. Instead of three or
four issues a year it was decided to publish it
annually. The Journal will be a combination of Art
and Literature by creative minds from around the
world featuring known and emerging artists. While
selecting poems and artwork I concentrated on the
fact that an individual artist is influenced by
the whole heritage of world literature and art.
“A genre lives in the present, but is constantly
aware of its past and origin.”
The
artists included in this Journal are not like the
Georgian poets writing ‘nice’, ‘bucolic or
pastoral’ poems around 1910. On the contrary,
the contributors selected for Harvests
of New Millennium are deeply aware of two
World Wars, anarchy, terrorism, and the postmodern
obsession with “destruction of meaning”. Ezra
Pound had understood the need for reviving English
poetry: “I doubt if any of us in 1911 clearly
articulated the proposition: there ought to be an
active literature for if this literature be not
active, a nation will die at the top” (Polite
Essays, 1937).
It is a
matter of great consolation that even though the
scope of terror has enlarged, the poets and
artists have not stopped composing their works.
This is quite evident from a very large number of
poems and artwork received by me for this Journal.
This is a good sign for the survival of humanism,
love and spiritual values. “It is one of the
horrors of our times that tragedy has become
commonplace, almost banal” (Patric Dickinsion).
No doubt, Poetry by raising its voice to the
height of the
heavens is powerful enough to provide a healing
touch to our soul, ‘hurt in some vital part’,
due to the fret and fury of the contemporary
barbarism.
Another
significant thing about several poets and artists
included in Harvests
of New Millennium is their quest for some
timeless existence, and ‘a nostalgia for the
impossible’, a quest for the world of intellect
and spirit. “The postmodern would be that which
in the modern invokes the unpresentable in
presentation itself, that which refuses the
consolation of correct forms, refuses the
consensus of taste permitting a common experience
of nostalgia for the impossible, and inquires into
new presentations-not to take pleasure in them,
but to better produce the feeling that there is
something unpresentable” (Jean-Francois Lyotard,
The
Postmodern Condition, 1984). I’m
indebted to these creative artists for their
invaluable support and help. I’m obliged to all
subscribers and benefactors. Without their
cooperation and help, the publication of Harvests
of New Millennium is not possible. Best Wishes
for a very Happy New Year.
SANTOSH
KUMAR
Editor
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"There
are painters who transform the sun into a yellow
spot, but there are others who, thanks to their
art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into
the sun."
~ Pablo
Picasso
Sample
Book Pages
Harvests
of New Millennium
by
Janet K. Brennan, Author,
Artist, Poet and Reviewer
Cyberwit Publications has gone and done it again in
the production of another masterpiece with its newest
release, Harvests of New Millennium.
This magnificent book is a composition of fine
art and poetry from artists around the literary world
Chocked to the brim with intensity and savor,
“Harvests” kept me going from page to page not
knowing what I would find next, and which of the
artists and poets best deserved recognition for they
are all excellent!!.
Harvests,
is an eclectic view of the world through the eyes of
some of the best writers and artists of our time who
have spun their magic through verse and picture.
Within
these pages, one travels through various cites of the
world as in Pato
Van Hecke,s “In the Garden, “ and “Scotland”
where the artist has blended erotica with fine art in
a mutual convergence of life and sumptuous human
imagery.
Adam
Donaldson Powell’s-“The Path” is reminiscent of
many dreams converging into one final road that leads
to the portal of human soul and indeed, I found myself
stretching myself to see what might be on the other
end. This
photograph has a gorgeous blend of colors and shades
that are natural and soothing.
In Herman
Smorenburg’s “The Discovery Two” we are being
shown a moment in history that has many sagas and
layers of fine art behind it.
One needs only to take the leap into the
painting and sit with it for a while.
The result is an overwhelming desire to know
the story behind the painting.
This, along with his oil on wood painting of
“Moonlight Secret” takes the viewer with its bold
choices and delicate messages in color and dream like
quality that leaves us to know that there is far more
than what meets the eye to these portraits.
Katherine
Luke caught my eye with her dream like, wizardries in
oil of “Calalily.”
This painting is a subdued and surreal
vision-dance done in reds and hints of blue and black
that exercises the art form of allusion.
Her “Margherita” is sumptuous in its
intoxicating affect of blends of pastel and mists, all
executed on bare canvass with oil.
When viewing Luke’s unique style one gets the
impression that we are looking through the rabbit hole
into an unexplored world of artistry
Master photographer and poet, Louie Levy does not
disappoint with his “Lonesome Senior Reader.
Levy writes
“He,
like myself and countless others, being elderly, have
sadly out-lived most of our parental relatives.
Nostalgic and happy of cultural holidays that we had
livingly shared with song, dance and feast.” His
touching and poignant photograph captures these words and
gives us pause to wonder at the personality he has
captured from behind the book.
Moving
on to the final pages of this human journey art-form,
we have some of the best poetry in the world.
Jim Ganley writes with perfect calculation
in his rhyme and stance poem, “Time” as he
explores the
subject with a bit of a slant.
The reader will want to go back into this fine
pour for
several reads.
“Time
is God; God is time said with each breath
Though
none gets to find out until we’ve faced death
To
learn of space and time would up like a vine
The
fabric of existence so precisely fine”
Dr.
Santosh Kumar, whose poetry has been read around the
world, stirs things
up in his urgent pleas for salvation of mankind in his
timely “Come, for a while”
‘Honour
your spirit guide, communicate to protect the planet
Place
symbol of your worship
Build
Medicine Wheel in the directions four
East,
West North South after reality”
In
Shirley Bolstock’s “Who Will Rake The Leaves?”
we find a beautiful tale of aging and questioning and
remembrance written in a sublime metaphorical style
that only accomplished poets can achieve
”Leaves
landing upon the ravages of bittersweet memories
The
debris is now flying through years of laughter and
tears
The
stillness arises and encompasses me, and I wonder,
Who
will rake the leaves, in the autumn of my years?”
This
family and life poem, much like my own “Gentle
Tugs” sends the reader on a journey of exploration
into what many be the most important values in life
and how we will spend our last years.
“Most nights I
sit
Watching
a perfect sun
set
over the mesa-wide,
Dreaming
of a place, new
to
hang my hat
should
I wander from this place
to
greener pastures by the sea
A
lake with Loons
How
I love Loons!
by
~ Janet K. Brennan
Peace poet, Louie Levy is no stranger to the art form
of poetry and once again regales us with his genius
style and flow with “Tomorrow’s yesterday,
B’klyn Nu Yawk Kids,”
“Remembering
guttered sidewalk streets and
My
life in
Brooklyn
NY
”
This
magical poem is a treat for the mind as it takes one
into the world that was
New York City
once upon a time.
His “Shadows, And Time of Day” is a
riveting piece that allows the reader to wander into
the depths of
their minds to question the importance
of simple acts of kindness
“Shit,
I thought, another Wino who should be working
I’ll
just keep walking and pass up another homeless bum”
To
the ravages of war and the atrocity of human
suffering. Levy
never minces words in his larger than life style. Yet
behind this hard hitting
and gritty pros is the soul of a compassionate
lover of life.
“Hey
enemy. With that there rifle and me with mine!
Ready
aim aire! So we shoot us both down dead.
Hey!
Please not in the head, who would know us then?
We
enemies aren’t supposed to have no guilt…
So
bang Bang!
Encapsulated, this fine publication, Harvests of
Millennium delves
into the questions and possible answers of life from
youth to old age.
It is without question a literary
accomplishment not to be missed.
Highly
recommended reading! Entertaining from start to
finish.
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