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Kung Fu of the Dark Father
Contributor(s): Cervine, Dane (Author)
ISBN: 1632100312     ISBN-13: 9781632100313
Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Eastern
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious
- Sports & Recreation | Martial Arts & Self-defense
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2016946846
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.44 lbs) 136 pages
 
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Kung Fu of the Dark Father presents not only the poet's father, the author's own enigmas, but also a veritable lineage of men confronting what Lorca describes as the duende in art and life--mythology's insistence that one must enter the underworld before there is any hope of bearing light. Here we meet a destruction derby hero, the Rolling Stones, Freud's cocaine habit, Meriwether Lewis' less than heroic return from the great West; St. Augustine, Copernicus, Hemingway's third son--each facing a darkness that poetry helps bear. There are also wild gurus, wandering monks--a terrestrial crew despite celestial aspirations--the human in each of us, with clay feet under a tainted moon.

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- Praise for Dane Cervine's Poetry -

...has a fine sense both of language and the interconnectedness of human lives that for me is at the heart of poetry.
--Adrienne Rich, author of Later Poems: Selected & New

...poems that matter...the beauty and pain of life become indistinguishable. Deliciously full of joy, insight, and awe.
--Ellen Bass, author of Like a Beggar/

...it is really the passion and precision...that earns my full attention.
--Tony Hoagland, author of Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

...clear struck bells.
--Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty


Contributor Bio(s): Cervine, Dane: - Dane Cervine's books include How Therapists Dance (2013) and The Jeweled Net of Indra (2007) from Plain View Press. Early collections include his own publication of the book What a Father Dreams (2005), as well as a chapbook series under the One Pony Press imprint. His poems have been chosen by Adrienne Rich for a National Writers Union Award; by Tony Hoagland as a finalist for the Wabash Poetry Prize; a Second Place prize for the Caesura Poetry contest; twice a finalist for, and the 2013 winner of the Atlanta Review's International Poetry Prize; 2nd Prize in the 2013 Morton Marcus Poetry Award; and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Dane's work has appeared in a wide variety of journals including The Hudson Review, The SUN Magazine, Atlanta Review, Sycamore Review, Poetry Flash, Catamaran Literary Reader, Red Wheelbarrow, numerous anthologies, newspapers, video & animation-including a fine press broadside of his poem Clay Feet from Sam Amico's Middle Earth press. Dane lives in Santa Cruz, California-where he works as a therapist, and is the emeritus Chief of Children's Mental Health for the county. His work integrates the arts of therapy and writing with a long-standing meditation practice. His website is at http: //www.DaneCervine.typepad.com.