Training Wheels - Softcover

Negri, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535238054 ISBN 13: 9781535238052

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

There is a punctuation that takes place in people's lives that is frequently captured in photographs, music, literature, and other media. Poetry allows us to re-experience a moment, regardless of whether in that moment there is a memory, a prospect of the future, or a real-time experience captured in words unrolling in a rhythm. The poem becomes a medium to reflect on an experience similar to a meditation, identifying and labeling the experience as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. In that spirit, the poem -- like meditation -- becomes a vehicle to assist in the natural movement of life. Training Wheels is a collection that delves into the poet's relationships to politics, friends and family members, spiritual investigation, music and poetry, and addictive behavioral processes, striving to be simultaneously honest and compassionate. "Processing these subjects led to a certain comfort and allowed me to do some inquiry around them with the motivation of finding how their unique rhythms resonated within me," says the author. The invitation to the reader is simply to appreciate whatever your response and relationship is to this work, knowing that what you experience in one moment may or may not be present in the next.

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About the Author

Richard Negri is a poet, performance-poet, bass player, and champion for social justice. His works include the plays Conversational Consciousness and Shadows Inside Out, the poetry collection Witness and two spoken word and jazz CDs: Pen to Paper & Other Blues and Meditations on a Downbeat.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535238054
• ISBN 13: 9781535238052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 50