My Quartet of Poetry Books

https://www.facebook.com/ArthurTurfa/videos/219314942086327/

Video with all four poetry books

Accents now has a video......now on Amzazon Kindle Direct Publishing in both paperback and e-books!

https://www.facebook.com/AccentsTurfa/videos/693375984344608/?modal=admin_todo_tour

Back at the Rosewood Art & Music Festival, Columbia, SC!

   Here is a link to my first video. The rosewood Art & Music Festival 2018 is on September 29th from 11 am-7 pm in Columbia, SC at
Rockaways
2719 Rosewood Drive
Columbia, SC 29205

https://www.facebook.com/ArthurTurfa/videos/219314942086327/UzpfSTI5MzczMjMzNzQ3MDY3NzoxMTA3OTI2MDU2MDUxMjk3/

Inger Simonsen's Books on Amazon

    Earlier I posted about her books, and I want to do so again. Stars in the Lobby has ben revised, and I want to post again about her.

     What impresses me about her is that she went to great lengths to care for her son. That shows that there is more to the stereotype of people from the 60s/Hippie Period did not care for family or take such things seriously.

https://www.amazon.com/Inger-Simonsen/e/B00KAGZTJG

A Track from "Gemini"

    I've been reading Inger Simonsen's memoir of her time in Los Angeles, and it got me thinking about my time in the Southland: 

https://soundcloud.com/arthur-turfa-1/sounds-from-saturday-evening

Inger's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ingersimonsenauthor/

Her books: https://www.amazon.com/Inger-Simonsen/e/B00KAGZTJG

Stunning Poem about Contemporary Issues

    Poetry, along with music, has impacts the public forum in ways no other art form can. A poem is mobile, either in memorized or printed/handwritten form. Music requires instrumentation or a singer, and requisite talent.

    To me a lot of the politically-fueled poetry these days is shrill, strident, and too often slides into prose written in poetic form.Oftentimes I am in complete sympathy with the cause or issue. But I shake my head and wish that someone would simply write a better poem.

    Christian Campbell did. If you do not get a poem-a-day in your e-mail, sign up now. It's free.

    I want to read more of him. Here, he gives the reader a good sense of place, includes references to other poets and persons, and gets his point across poetically.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sculpture-fragments-stuart-hall

     There they are! I took inventory because I have two events coming up in September. There will be more details later, but I thought I would take a picture of all four books for promotional purposes. I have a new phone, and for whatever reason needed to start a new Instagram account.
     
     All of the books are available from the usual vendors, and two in electronic formats. the sites should be self-explanatory, and you know how to navigate them. Earlier this week I was thrilled, or chuffed as I have learned to say, to see Saluda Reflections crop up on Barnes & Noble Internet ads. I saw one today, even!

    The books and their publishers, in order of their release:

     Places and Times, eLectio Publishing, © 2015. They will include a free e-book upon purchase of     a paperback.This is my first book of poetry.

     Accents, Amazon KDP, ©2017/2018. I regained my rights to the book. This is my most                   thematically-structured work, and contains what I consider some of my best poetry. It has
 been available on Amazon KDP in Kindle since February of this year, and last month now
 can be had in paperback format.

    Gemini, Broad River Books, © 2018, was rushed out in time for Deckle Edge, South Carolina's Literary Festival, in Columbia, SC. Broad River Books is a subsidiary of Muddy Ford Press. For reasons beyond my comprehension, the book is not listed on their site (I am being diplomatic and accurate), but let me assure you that it does exist and that people have purchased it. For international readers, through Amazon there is a click-and-print scheme, whereby a hard copy will be made available at a bookstore close to where the reader lives. If anyone avails his.herself of this option, I would absolutely love to know how it went!

   Saluda Reflections, Finishing Line Press © 2018. this was to have been my third book, and it became my fourth. FLP wanted Accents, and I should have told someone "Sorry!" since at that time there was no signed contract. The book has been out for just under one month; it is more about what is happening around the nation and world, and less about me.

   I would be totally remiss if I did not say anything about the friend and artist who has created these stunning covers. Carol Worthington-Levy and I became friends in the 8th grade, and have maintained the friendship for decades. Here is a link to her website: http://worthingtonfineart.com/  you can fined out about the recent successes of this San Jose, CA-based artist.

   Creativelly speaking, I do not forsee another book for at least one or two years. I am writing more, reading more, and honing my craft. Follow me at https://twitter.com/DrTurfa,
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