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A Contemporary Odyssey --
Literary, critical, and artistic examination of Greek
and Roman culture, mankind’s first sweeping tradition
of literary and philosophical discourse – a body of
myth, history, and critical inquiry that is argumentative,
creative, self-critical, and root of the codification
of Western Culture. Translation, Imitation, Explication,
Testament, Critique, and Parody. 123 Writers &
Artists. The PIG IRON Series, Number 20, Cloth,
ISBN 0-917530-78-0
Paper, ISBN 0-917530-35-7
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No War No More -- Edited
by
Arya F. Jenkins "We take a stand for
peace, independently and collectively, artistically
and politically. In these times it is imperative not
to let slip through one's hands the opportunity to say
again and again, with whatever means possible, creative
and peaceful, that war is wrong, that love is the only
path to peace, justice and freedom, and that we will
not veer from this path no matter the consequences.
This idea fed this project and I hope will feed the
minds and hearts of those who share in our efforts by
reading this book." ISBN 9781434309839
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WNWG Presents - The WNWG
is a unique writing club based in Youngstown Ohio. Four
authors and friends, each specializing in different
genres and styles, have come together to form the
Wednesday
Night Writing Group. Together, we will take
you on a journey into the funny, twisted, macabre and
at times surreal realm of our imagination. Join us as
we explore the mysterious, the magical, and the utterly
absurd as we take you on an adventure through our oft-twisted
mindscape.
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Greenwood/Blue Lotus Press -
GBL Press, formed in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, is rooted
in a Buddhist, environmentalist and social consciousness...
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WNWG Illustrations
- artwork commissioned by Youngstown
Writers Group...
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> Fowler > poems and books,
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New!
from Finishing Line Press:
Condensed Matter
and Other States of Mind
The latest chapbook of poetry by Douglas
A. Fowler has been published by
Finishing Line Press. Order your copy of
this Limited Edition Collector's Edition today.
paper ISBN 1-932755-86-1
Send $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping (USA ONLY)
check or money order to:
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forward from the book:
"The average density of the universe is something like
0.0000000000000000000000000001 kilograms per cubic meter
(10-28 kg/m3). One cubic meter of granite weighs some
2700 kilograms. This book's density is 550 kg/m3. Your
body weighs in at about 1100 kg/m3, a density that is
some 10 million trillion trillion times that of the
universe. Our condensation from the void would seem
to be the exception; not the rule."
Douglas A. Fowler
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reviewers have observed:
"Doug Fowler illuminates a poignant world on the
margins where fish-moths, a perambulating cat, and False
Lupines rustle among the broken asphalt, and a pie-carousel
lurches into rotation in a hushed café."
Mary Carey,
the Daily Hampshire Gazette
"In the tradition of Beat poets
like Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, Ohio born poet and
naturalist Douglas A. Fowler traveled the American west
as a young man in order to explore nature and the American
landscape and find himself. Fowler’s love and understanding
of nature and physics have fueled much of his writing.
In the poems in his most recent collection, Condensed
Matter and Other States of Mind, published by Finishing
Line Press in 2005, Fowler reflects upon his connections
to nature and the universe at large.
"Fowler led a multifaceted life working many jobs before
settling into becoming a teacher. He has been a steelworker,
custodian, machinist and cabinet maker. These experiences
fueled poems in a collection, Jobs in Between the
Cracks: Poems in Remembrance of ‘Good’ Work. Fowler
said, “I will always consider the jobs that I held a
central part of an authentic education and I want my
writing to be a way of making this experience part of
that voice crying out a need for meaningful work amidst
our new managerial and retail landscape.
“At eighteen I was a steelworker, paying dues to
USWA Local 2243, and on the contract pay-scale with
full benefits. Now we send our kids to work in malls
for minimum wage. ‘Good’ work assumes conditions of
justice. It can also encourage connections with land,
water, air and how things are really made.” Through
his poetry, Fowler hopes to elucidate his concern for
a dying landscape and values and for a threatened way
of life. A sense of justice, an appreciation of nature
and for the way things work, as well as regret for valuable
things lost inform the poems in Fowler’s latest collection,
Condensed Matter and Other States of Mind. His
poems, like this excerpt from “Kyrie,” cry out to the
reader to perceive beauty in the obvious, to find poetry
and music in the mundane:
“I like the weeds on the broken asphalt
of abandoned fabrications, the rusted
wrenches
and sea-wrecks of overhead cranes
listing in the steel archaeology…”
from Poet and Naturalist
Douglas A. Fowler Reading at Barnes and Noble,
Arya-Francesca Jenkins, Edgewater, New
Jersey
"Doug Fowler transforms the
mundane into the profound in his insightful first collection.
I highly recommend this excellent book."
Leah Maines, author of Beyond the River
“Traveling cross-country or in his back yard, Doug Fowler
sees lovingly every whisper of life from hard rock to
soft flowers, from reliable laws of nature to the randomness
of spilled coffee.”
Teresa Saska,
Columbus-area photographer
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photograph by Teresa Saska
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about the author
Fowler has worked a number of jobs wedged in and around
college including stints as a steelworker, machinist,
carpenter, and cabinet maker. He has done field-work
in hydrology with both the U.S. Geological Survey in
southeast Montana and the Forest Service in Idaho. His
embarrassingly long vitae also includes work as a field
paleontologist in central Montana, on a forest fire
in Idaho, and three years as a school custodian.
He studied geology at the University of Montana back
in the mid-seventies when environmental issues were
in the forefront of academic discussion. There he obtained
his bachelor’s degree in geology. Doug went on to teach
physical science in several private and public secondary
schools as well as finish the course work for bachelor’s
degrees in physics and astronomy at Youngstown State
University. He did further graduate work in pure mathematics,
and studied the ways in which to teach math and physical
science, at both Western Washington University and Youngstown
State University. He received his master’s degree from
Youngstown State University, specializing in curriculum
development, and master teaching in both math and physics.
Along with an ongoing interest in wilderness hiking
and travel, Doug pursues the defense of the environment
with the tools of math and science education. He has
found refuge at Youngstown State University where he
currently is an adjunct faculty member of the Department
of Physics and Astronomy. He sees writing as a way of
making his experience part of that voice crying out
a need for meaningful work amidst our new managerial
retail landscape. He lives in northeastern Ohio with
his artist partner, Diana Ludwig. They share a continuing
interest in conservation, western wilderness trips,
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Contents of the book:
Will and Testament
Reservoir
The Upper Registers of Sky
Hidden Creek, elevation 6375 feet
A Walk in the Dark
While photographing Rose Crown,
Sedum rhodanthum Gray,
Beartooth range, 1993
Futurity
U.S. 30
Sky Top Lakes
Epitaph
Awakening
Darrtown Road
Ice Walk
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Hymn and Chorus to the Sun's
Return
cautionary aquatics
Fish Eye
In Western Ohio
Bumper
Railroad Flowers
Moving Pipe with Debbie
White Fields of Highway Elysium
hearing far light
A Reply
Kyrie
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from the back cover:
Doug Fowler was born in the heart of Ohio’s rust belt
and lived for a number of years in the American west.
During the 1970s he studied geology at the University
of Montana, which in those days had become a center
for the integration of the physical and natural sciences
with a growing body of literature and art centered on
land use and ecology. Fowler considers himself a naturalist
in that tradition. He now teaches physics at Youngstown
State University. He and his partner, artist Diana Ludwig,
make a home both in the Youngstown area and near Allegheny
National Forest. Condensed Matter and Other Sates
of Mind is his first published collection of poems.
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