“If ever a poet needs to be read, studied, appreciated and shared, it is Edward Bruce Bynum. He is of and ahead of his time. He has found his own highly distinctive and heart-stopping territory. Quiet, thoughtful, a questioner of multiple worlds not ready for the easy answers. . . . A word-worker seeking truth beyond the common. . . .”
Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions
By Edward Bruce Bynum
Paper - 9780979750922
Price: $18.00t
Published 2010
Size: 6 x 9, Pages: 77
Subjects: Africana Studies: Literature and Poetry, Fiction and Poetry
Publisher: Lotus Press
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Description
This collection is divided into four sections. In the first section, the title poem follows Conchis, a pig, as he relates his birth, life, and death and their significance. The character is based on Maurice Conchis, who appears as a psychiatrist in John Fowles’ novel The Magus. The following three sections present poetic meditations on various subjects including love, death, current events, “the holy feminine in everyone,” and creative writing.
Published by Lotus Press
Author(s)
Edward Bruce Bynum is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Dreaming Skull and Godzilla: His Life and Vision, as well as five texts in psychology/psychiatry, The Family Unconscious: Families and the Interpretation of Dreams; The Roots of Transcendence; The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology; and the forthcoming UREAUS: The Science and Mystery of the Shining Light Within Us.
Reviews
“If ever a poet needs to be read, studied, appreciated and shared, it is Edward Bruce Bynum. He is of and ahead of his time. He has found his own highly distinctive and heart-stopping territory. Quiet, thoughtful, a questioner of multiple worlds not ready for the easy answers. . . . A word-worker seeking truth beyond the common. . . .”
— Haki R. Madhubuti, author of Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009