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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas

joybragi84
Aug 9, 20222 min read

Picture Say More Than Words--At the Moment Anyway! Hint: Words Are at the Bottom of the Pictures






Today, when Kellie and I got home from a morning at the doctor's office and a meeting at ASUMH (that's where we work), a long-awaited package was sitting by the door. The package contained 20 advance copies of my book Atheists and Empty Spaces and several posters, bookmarks, and pamphlets. I didn't bother counting posters, bookmarks, and pamphlets because I will do that later. My mind is in a flurry of "What-can-I-do-now?"

The first thing that came to my mind is exactly what I am doing right now. I have between ten and twenty regular readers of my blog. You folks are the ones who keep me going. I would like to hear from more of you more often, but I cannot express how much I appreciate those who even take a glance at my attempts to entertain others through the written word, and I want you gals and guys to know first about the advanced copies and accoutrements if only by a few minutes or hours. I have advance copies of my book!


Atheists and Empty Spaces will become available to the general public on most bookselling websites including www.austinmacauley.com/us on August 31 and available through mail-order using the pamphlet pictured above.


Really! Who orders books by mail anymore? But, you can print the pamphlet and do that if you want. I have no idea how long it will take to come in. My advance copies were shipped from Cambridge, Great Britain.

Anyway, I am excited! I don't know what to do yet. I am ready to start talking about this book that has been at least ten to fifteen years in the making. Won't you join me? Enjoy!



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I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot

A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron

The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats

Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge

The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats

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