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Worth a second ask: Please buy my book. It’s real values for the money.

Originally posted on IS SHE AVAILABLE? Tales of Sedition and SUBVERSION:

THERE IS NO SUCCESS LIKE FAILURE AND FAILURE IS NO SUCCESS AT ALL.

The American Poet Bob Dylan had a terse style of delivering phrases that could sting like a yellow jacket.  His vagabond words penetrated the skin, past blood and sinew all the way to the bone, scraping the deepest sentiments.  Dylan woke me up to the breath of this cold morning’s truth when I was 14.   I didn’t Look Back.

Now his words return to frame my present.

And I’m thinking to myself, there are so many things that can be done in this world; most of them bad but some of them good.

Apart from my daughter, the one accomplishment that I’m proudest of, that I believe brings real value into this increasingly commodified existence, is my book IS SHE AVAILABLE?  a fusion of Poetry, Comics, Art, Jazz and animation.  There’s even two short stores, 3 full comic…

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THERE IS NO SUCCESS LIKE FAILURE AND FAILURE IS NO SUCCESS AT ALL.

The American Poet Bob Dylan had a terse style of delivering phrases that could sting like a yellow jacket.  His vagabond words penetrated the skin, past blood and sinew all the way to the bone, scraping the deepest sentiments.  Dylan woke me up to the breath of this cold morning’s truth when I was 14.   I didn’t Look Back.

Now his words return to frame my present.

And I’m thinking to myself, there are so many things that can be done in this world; most of them bad but some of them good.

Apart from my daughter, the one accomplishment that I’m proudest of, that I believe brings real value into this increasingly commodified existence, is my book IS SHE AVAILABLE?  a fusion of Poetry, Comics, Art, Jazz and animation.  There’s even two short stores, 3 full comic strips and two original sculptures.  All extraordinary media interpretations of 52 original works of poetry and fiction by me.

The book formation follows the story of Stone Soup, the Grimms fairy tale of the traveling vagabond who knocked on a door in times of scarcity, carrying nothing but a stone wrapped in a kerchief at the end of a stick he bore across his shoulder.  The vagabond asked for hospice from the cold and upon being told directly that there was no nourishment to be found within, the hobo replied that he had brought his own:  a stone for making stone soup.  His benefactor was intrigued by the idea that a meal could be made from no more than a cauldron of boiling water and the stone the traveller carried.

IS SHE AVAILABLE? is a book of Stone Soup

But she let him in and once the water in cauldron  began to boil, it made perfect sense to add a few carrots, a couple of onions, some turnips and leeks to what was already going to be a nourishing feast.   The additions enriched the broth and their collaboration is what made the meal.  This is no cautionary tale of distrusting travellers but instead point out the real value of any meal, of any endeavour between anyone, not just artists.  Which is how we can enrich our lives by bringing what we have to the same pot that others bring their best to.

Nature is cruelly competitive; but as humans our forte is cooperation and collaboration.  That is how we have survived.

So I am asking you to join our collaboration in bringing the substance of art and literature to the screen.

Come to the IS SHE AVAILABLE? website and have a look at the contents of this unusual work.  160 fully  illustrated pages intensely designed by Rian Hughes.  15 original jazz compositions, musical interpretations of poetry by the jazz composer Gilad Atzmon.  Feast your senses on a unique, deeply personal but also universal, work of both print and electronic arts.

You can see the inside as well as the outside.

And yes, please support our project by purchasing a download of the eBook for only $9.99 and/or a copy of the sumptuous hardcover for $24.95.  

I guarantee you’ve never seen anything like IS SHE AVAILABLE? before, in print or on screen.

“Is She Available? has the feel of an artifact from the near future – a seminal work of a new genre fusing poetry, graphic art, music, and animation.” Paul Mirick for Broken Frontiers

Thankyou for keeping a poet from roaming the streets, knocking on doors with a stone book tied  to the end of a stick. 

Igor Goldkind 

Chris Browning:

“i follow igor goldkind on facebook. i am not a friend of his, but a friend of mine kept reposting things he’d written and said and i found his way of expressing himself too good to ignore. as is the case with this book. i’ll level with you. i don’t really understand poetry – it’s too opaque and often too personal for me to really understand and i often feel i am missing huge amounts of the impact of even the small amount of poetry i do understand. if i read it aloud i appreciate it more, but even then. but when i saw a goldkind book of poetry was on offer and remembering how much his writing had affected me in the past i thought i would take the risk

i’m glad i did. again, i don’t fully understand or appreciate all of it but goldkind is a beautiful writer. he enjoys the ways a sentence hangs together both on the page and, if you follow me, in the mouth as you read the words. but what makes the book special is the third way he makes the words work – through graphic design. you see the OTHER reason i followed goldkind is because even though his words my friend linked me too resonated, i also liked the fact he’d been involved in all sorts of british comics over the years, especially 2000AD which is a comic i have very, very fond feelings towards….

by Bill Sienkiewicz and Rian Hughes ©2014

and it’s on this level that even this man who struggles with poetry found himself adoring the book. because it’s a beautiful thing to hold. a beautiful thing to look at. and in the same way that if i don’t like all the poems,

if there’s a bit of artwork that someone has contributed to the volume that doesn’t work for me there’s often something coming along very soon that does absolutely work. there’s some lovely art here by people i do know of – rian hughes, glenn fabry, david lloyd, shaky kane, bill sienkiewicz – and many i didn’t – i was very taken by the work of dix, lars henkel and jeff christenson particularly. even if i didn’t like a poem or piece of art, something special and wonderful and surprising would be along very soon

and speaking as someone who is very deeply in love with books as a printed medium and could never imagine reading or appreciating an e-book, the fact that the electronic edition has apparently so much more to it – music! moving images! – very much pleases me. this is a book by someone who not only has a glorious way with words but has a very unique vision for what he wants to do. and that’s why i’ll be cherishing this volume… “

THE HEART’S FLESH AWAKENING

PR

Women that like to dress their men

Liked to play with dolls

As little girls.

As little girls will.

But boys who do not know how to dress

Themselves as dolls

Will be dressed by little girls grown

Who know exactly how to dress their dolls.

igorgoldkind:

A New poem revised.

Originally posted on IS SHE AVAILABLE? Tales of Sedition and SUBVERSION:

We who are hiding in our second bedrooms,

Licking the silver from the backs of our screen,

Are living in a differently timed zone

Of insomniac awareness.

Sometimes 2, sometimes 3, sometimes 4 or more

Lives are lived and lost each night.

In our rooms, by ourselves

Sitting too close to the edge of our beds.

This is our legacy 

The lasting  perpetuity of our sensory species:

The glow that contests the light that once shone from our eyes,

Right up to the razor’s edge of our understanding of

What is not yet known.

The un-utterable.

What can barely be thought , much less said and

Yet still dances these words so merrily across this page.

In the ballet of silence that surrounds them.

Who are you reading this?

What perturbs your eternal sleep-walk into the night?

Are there questions you are pondering?

Or are you merely waiting for the screen to pull…

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igorgoldkind:

This turned me on…

Originally posted on The Cruise For Beatles Fans:

A Day In The Life

A Day in the Life is one of the Beatles most influential, powerful and impactful songs in the history of popular music. I’ve read many different accounts of this song’s creation and decided that for my website I would compile and consolidate as much of this information that I could find. My sources for this article are numerous but need to be acknowledged. It starts with Geoff Emerick’s book “Here, There and Everywhere- My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles” (one of my favorite books about the Beatles, insightful, humorous and exciting at times…I’ve read it numerous times and find something new each time I do) and then moves onto “Many Years From Now” by Barry Miles (if you want to know what Paul remembers and thinks about every Beatles song, this book is for you), “All You Need is Ears”

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There’s an emptiness at the heart of any compressed space.

The air that fills a dome; an unanswered echo.

There’s an emptiness in my heart

That reminds me

All of my ideas are empty.

The floating leaves from a fumbled folder

Flying papers littering the sky.

This emptiness must remind you

How light and flimsy your desires really are,

How gently they fall from the sky to the floor

A confetti of mercy and good intentions.

Shredded emotions that fall at your feet.

They are, in the end, compared to Nothing,

Merely the fleeting litter of  this mind .

See?

Mindfulness, A Reminder

~the intentional, accepting and non-judgemental focus of one’s attention on the emotions,thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment~