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    Nine Tales Of Creation
    Nine Tales Of Creation
    Nine Tales Of Creation
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    Nine Tales Of Creation

    By Fabrizio Frosini, Daniel Brick, Dilantha Gunawardana and

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    This is the second Anthology of Poetry, after "At The Crossing Of Seven Winds", published with the participation of poets from different parts of the world. In his Introduction to this book, my Minnesotan friend Daniel Brick highlights what he calls "four gems of poetry".
    The first gem is: The poetry is relevant and accessible at every stage of our lives.
    The second gem is really a question: How do I know I am a poet? This is a vexed question, and can cause prospective poets considerable confusion. Do you patiently wait for the State's Poet Laureate to call you some morning, "Jeremy, the Governor is going to confer Poethood on you at a press conference at 10 am. Be there!" ; or do a group of public officials draw up a list and announce them on the radio.. Would such an official affair convince you that you are indeed a poet? Perhaps you need a diploma. You could pay a Writing School on a University campus $3000 and receive an official diploma. Would that give you the necessary knowledge, confidence and experience to exercise your Poethood? Believe me when I tell you it is much simpler than all of the above. The word POET means MAKER in ancient Greek, and just as poets make poems, poets make themselves into poets, and then announce they have assumed the role. - [And a poet's role could be an important one: think about.. as..] - Every culture appears to have at least one very crucial poet whom everyone recognizes as representative. In medieval Europe, people would open Virgil's Aeneid at random, someone else would throw out a number, and the one holding the volume would go to that numbered line and that word on the page, read it out loud and the group would draw conclusions from what the nearly divine Virgil had revealed to them. Is it any surprise then that Dante made Virgil his guide through Hell, Limbo and Purgatory?
    Well.. "NINE TALES OF CREATION" contains poems by nine contemporary poets, all of whom are engaged with poetry as a way of making sense of the world and its people and places. You can wrap your mind around our volume and take in the particular points of view offered on a variety of subjects. You can't go wrong in the company of nine sincere and committed poets. As you read our poems, your mind will expand, grow more subtle, be inspired!
    To know what the 3rd and 4th gems are you've just to dowload the book: it is a chip book, yet an interesting one..!
    The poets: Fabrizio Frosini, Italy ; Daniel J. Brick, Minnesota, USA ; Dilantha Gunawardana, Sri Lanka ; Lawrence Beck, Nebraska, USA ; Maia Padua, Mindanao, Philippines ; Mihaela Pirjol, Cyprus ; Niken Kusuma Wardani, Java, Indonesia ; Simone Inez Harriman, Northland, New Zealand ; S.zaynub Kamoonpuri, Tanzania.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFabrizio Frosini
    Release dateMay 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310924699
    Nine Tales Of Creation
    Author

    Fabrizio Frosini

    Born in Tuscany, Italy. Currently living close to Florence and Vinci, Leonardo's hometown. Doctor in Medicine, specialized in Neurosurgery, with an ancient passion for Poetry, he is the Author of over 2,000 poems published in 20 personal books. Frosini writes in Italian, his native language, and English. He is the founder of the International Association "Poets Unite Worldwide," with which he has published more than 50 Anthologies. Among his own books: «The Chinese Gardens - English Poems», «Prelude to the Night», «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls - Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» (Bilingual Ed.) - [for the others, see below].~*~In Frosini's Poetry:1. The Truth is Affirmed ; 2. Beauty is Conveyed ; 3. The Personal becomes the Universal.One of the key terms in contemporary poetry is 'POETRY OF WITNESS'. "Florence, A Walk With A View" is an excellent example of this type of poem. It exchanges the anger we experienced in the preceding poem with melancholy, but this is a haunted and desperate melancholy, not at all like the word's root meaning of sweet sorrow. Yet, in Fabrizio Frosini's poem, the city charms the visitor with its natural beauty - "the silky lights of the / Sunset" - and artistic ambiance - "the intimate warmth of nostalgia that makes / Your heart melt at the sight around".In the finest poetry, beauty is conveyed in all of it sensuous and spiritual glory. The title "Water Music" refers to one of Handel's most popular works, a masterpiece of baroque melody, rhythm and harmony. The poem, however, is not about this music.. here is a shining element of the beauty this poem conveys - "I was in my room, staring at the clear sky through the window. The moon, so pale and magical, drawing my imagination to her. In my ears Handel's music was playing softly." - There is the beauty of VITA NOVA, in this Frosini's poem: Dante's idealization of Beatrice with its artistic and moral benefits experienced by a contemporary couple. And finally the beauty of sublimation, when an otherwise sensuous experience must be transferred to the plane of the Imagination. Other Frosini's poem, like "Nocturnal Snowing", are Poems of Memory, that reveal the persistence of an experience of mutual attraction in the poet's life over many decades. There, a young woman, who is forever young and lovely in the poet's mind, becomes a touchstone of emotional value. But not all good experiences are given a future by the hand of fate. And so Frosini's poetry also explores the emotional consequences of the loss of such a promising moment... The prevailing reaction in reader after reader is that Frosini's verses relate to their emotional lives. In other words, Fabrizio Frosini's personal experience reflects their personal experience, and thus the Personal becomes the Universal...~*~Books published as sole Author:(*BE*: Bilingual Editions, English–Italian ; All books have PAPERBACK and EBOOK Editions)– «The Chinese Gardens – English Poems» – English Ed. – (published also in Italian Ed.:– «I Giardini Cinesi» – Edizione Italiana);– «KARUMI – Haiku & Tanka» – Italian Ed.;– «Allo Specchio di Me Stesso» ('In the Mirror of Myself') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Vento e il Fiume» ('The Wind and the River') – Italian Ed.;– «A Chisciotte» ('To Quixote') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Puro, l'Impuro – Kosher/Treyf» ('The pure, the Impure – Kosher / Treyf') – Italian Ed.;– «Frammenti di Memoria – Carmina et Fragmenta» ('Fragments of Memories') – Italian Ed.;– «La Città dei Vivi e dei Morti» ('The City of the Living and the Dead') – Italian Ed.;– «Nella luce confusa del crepuscolo» ('In the fuzzy light of the Twilight') – Italian Ed.;– «Limes —O La Chiave Dei Sogni» ('The Key to Dreams') – Italian Ed.;– «Echi e Rompicapi» ('Puzzles & Echoes') – Italian Ed.;– «Ballate e Altre Cadenze» ('Ballads and Other Cadences') – Italian Ed.;– «Selected Poems – Επιλεγμένα Ποιήματα – Poesie Scelte» – Greek–English–Italian (Αγγλικά, Ελληνικά, Ιταλικά – Greek translation by Dimitrios Galanis);– «Prelude to the Night – English Poems» – English Ed. (published also in Italian Ed.:– «Preludio alla Notte» – Edizione Italiana);– «A Season for Everyone – Tanka Poetry» – English Ed.;– «Evanescence of the Floating World – Haiku» – English Ed.;– «From the Book of Limbo – Dal Libro del Limbo» – *BE*;– «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls – Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» – *BE*.~*~Forthcoming publications:– «Mirror Games — A Tale» – English Edition (also in Italian Ed.:– «Giochi di Specchi — Un Racconto»);– «Il Sentiero della Luna» ('The Moon's Path') – Italian Edition.~*~For the Anthologies published by Fabrizio Frosini with "Poets Unite Worldwide", see Frosini's profile as a PUBLISHER, or POETS UNITE WORLDWIDE's profile.~*~Some of Frosini's poems are also published in the Anthology "Riflessi 62" (Italian Edition), edited by Pagine Srl.~*~Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/poetsuniteworldwide/Website address:https://poetsuniteworldwide.org/Blog:https://poetsuniteworldwide.wordpress.com/Twitter username:@fabriziofrosini

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      Nine Tales Of Creation - Fabrizio Frosini

      Opening note

      This is the second Anthology of Poetry, after "At The Crossing Of Seven Winds", published with the participation of poets from different parts of the world. This time, seven out of nine of us are new, but we all –old and new ones– belong to the same "circle", as we share the same passion.

      The title I have chosen, "Nine Tales Of Creation", does not have any reference to religious or ontological issues; yet, it simply refers to the poetry created by nine poets.

      In his Introduction to this book, my Minnesotan friend Daniel Brick cleverly highlights what he calls "four gems of poetry" and points out that even if most of us poets are not native English speakers, we've used such common language to speak the truth as we know it.

      A reader may observe that "truth" is a challenging word, and remember all of us what Paul Celan himself claimed: «only in the mother tongue can one speak his own truth —in a foreign tongue the poet lies». Yet, I don't think we ("native" or not) are 'liars'. We have simply spoken about the world as we know it, about love, hopes, about ourselves, using our experience and our own cultural background. The poems which follow are our own tales of creation, thus –using a verse from one of Daniel's poem– I invite each and every reader:

      "Come into the warm yellow light, join our circle."

      Fabrizio Frosini (Firenze, May 2015)

      ~*~

      Hisakata no / hikari nodokeki / haru no hi ni /

      shizu kokoro, naku / hana no chiruramu

      The spring has come, and once again / the sun shines in the sky;

      / so gently smile the heavens, that /

      it almost makes me cry, / when blossoms drop and die.

      Ki no Tomonori (c. 850 – c. 904 AD)

      (named among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and a compiler of the Kokin Wakashū)

      ~*~

      Foreword

      by Daniel J. Brick

      We are a group of nine poets from different parts of this small, troubled and beautiful planet Earth. All of us use English as a common language. Most of us are not native speakers of English, and each of us has a unique and wonderful culture. This is the main point: in our poems in English, we are speaking the truth as we know it; we are conveying beauty as we appreciate it.

      By way of introduction to this collection of the planet's poetry, I have highlighted four GEMS OF POETRY to share with our readers. Each of these gems shines its own light on the publication.

      —The first gem is: The poetry is relevant and accessible at every stage of our lives. Don't we still read Mother Goose fables in their stylized verse renditions to our younger siblings? Of course, we do, and when they get older we switch to Dr. Seuss. And later still, perhaps Shel Silverstein. These three writers and many like them around the world emphasize the sound qualities of poetry and the sheer delight of playing with words - their rhythms, rhymes, meanings.

      As we get older we need poetry that has a few wrinkles. It has to be tough because it's going camping with the family, or on a nature hike with a school group, or a first plane flight with friends. Or perhaps you'll read the poetry books at home, but only take a notebook and pen, or a smartphone when you go out so that you can focus on writing your poems.

      Well, you get my drift. As we get older the poetry we read gets older with us. Every culture appears to have at least one very crucial poet whom everyone recognizes as representative. In medieval Europe, people would open Virgil's Aeneid at random, someone else would throw out a number, and the one holding the volume would go to that numbered line and that word on the page, read it out loud and the group would draw conclusions from what the nearly divine Virgil had revealed to them. Is it any surprise then that Dante made Virgil his guide through Hell, Limbo and Purgatory? Imagine a poet today with such authority! Virgil embodied the very power and scope of poetry for Dante and his culture. What living or dead poet could play such an exalted role just in your personal life?

      —The second gem is really a question: How do I know I am a poet? This is a vexed question, and can cause prospective poets considerable confusion. Do you patiently wait for the State's Poet Laureate to call you some morning, "Jeremy, the Governor is going to confer Poethood on you at a press conference at 10 am. Be there!" ; or do a group of public officials draw up a list and announce them on the radio.. Would such an official affair convince you that you are indeed a poet?

      Perhaps you need a diploma. You could pay a Writing School on a University campus $3000 and receive an official diploma. Would that give you the necessary knowledge, confidence and experience to exercise your Poethood?

      Believe me when I tell you it is much simpler than all of the above. The word POET means MAKER in ancient Greek, and just as poets make poems, poets make themselves into poets, and then announce they have assumed the role.

      WE ARE SELF-PROCLAIMED POETS! This will need repeating before my essay ends. We prepare ourselves, we evaluate our readiness, our degree of commitment, our sheer boldness to enter into the realm of art. Say it: "I am a poet because I say I am a poet.". If saying that makes you giggle, or feel doubt, or shrug your shoulders, you are not ready to make such a grand proclamation. Stay focused, keep writing your poems as they present themselves your imagination. You must also realize you have this threshold to cross: only you can assert your identity as a poet. You cannot deceive yourself, you cannot deceive poetry itself. When you are ready, the waters will part. —You understand now, you cannot deceive yourself, or trick yourself. You must be ready and, if you are, the waters will part.

      —The third gem is: The psychological benefits of being a poet. Whether you see a life in poetry as a mission to spread ideas to people who need them, or a calling to reveal the precious beauty of the Earth, or an avocation to affirm the wonders of eros and agape, or a game with language, there are amazing psychological benefits. Poetry can provide a way to close the gap

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