In these poems David Breeden explores the paradoxes of time and language as they stand in for the eternity and silence at the heart of human religious and spiritual experience. e e cummings said, "they played for timelessness with chips of when." The poems in this collection attempt to call time's bluff by laying all the cards on the table.

They've Played for Timelessness (with Chips of When)

Literature & Fiction

Breeden, David

Poetry

Virtual Artists Collective

Another Number: A Novel of the '70s

Silver Phoenix Pr

Dad, JJ Wade, is a used bookshop owner.  Son Buck is a screenwriter trying to make it on the west coast.  Between them is the long shadow of a divorce.  When Hollie Ivie, a Goth grrrl, becomes the obsession of JJ's life, Buck steps in with shock therapy-he steals Hollie.  Mixing journals, email, and third-person narration, this novel tells the story of a wasted, bitter artist who still might pull it out, his son headed in the same direction, and a woman who doesn't intend to be owned by anyone.   Where does Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher fit in?  A frumpy professor and email, of course.

A Poet's Guide to Divorce

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Fine Tooth Pr Llc

This collection is a series of meditations based on a short poem by William Carlos Williams. Beginning with the trope of sin and redemption implicit in the Williams lyric, these poems examine the nature of action, myth, and language. What does the Garden of Eden have to do with an icebox? How similar are deities and spouses? Can stealing plums lead to ultimate knowledge? This is just to say that saying isn't just. . .

This Is Just to Say: Meditations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

In News from the Kingdom of God, minister and poet David Breeden introduces readers to a Jesus hidden for fifteen hundred years. This new translation of The Gospel of Thomas not only reveals the incisive spiritual vision of Jesus, but also the poetry of his thinking. These meditations include wisdom from diverse religious traditions to delineate a spiritual practice at once mystical and profoundly grounded in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. Jesus lives in these pages, a profound wisdom teacher.

News from the Kingdom of God: Meditations on The Gospel of Thomas

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Wipf and Stock

This book-length poem imagines the Hebrew prophet Amos writing his memoirs from beyond the grave. Born into poverty and obscurity, Amos the shepherd and sycamore pruner faced daunting challenges in his attempts to follow what he heard as God's charge to change the social structures of his time. He had his vocation and his art, but what chance did he have against entrenched political corruption and religious hypocrisy? As Amos examines his life, his art, his message, and his failure, he recognizes the impossibilities of the trackless path out of the desert that he walked in life, and he faces the awful truth that "reality has authors." The poor do not write that reality, and Amos takes both pride and umbrage that he is recorded forever in the biblical canon as a "major minor prophet." From the comfort of the afterlife, Amos explores life's deepest questions with such companions as Laozi, King David, William Shakespeare, and Michel Foucault. Amos learns that telling the truth isn't easy or perhaps possible, even from beyond the grave. Still, he cannot avoid considering human existence and asking: Is it necessary to speak truth to power when victory is impossible?

The Art of Prophecy: A How-To Guide from Beyond the Grave by Amos, a Major Minor Prophet

Resource Publications

Resource Publications (CA)

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