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Gates of Eden Countdown
What was the difference between a hippie, a Digger, and a 60s politico? Between a commune and collective? It's all here...
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Reflections on the Chinese Cultural Revolution via the Poet Wang Ping
I recently met the poet Wang Ping via twitter, a social medium that — at its best — can illuminate the time-space continuum and all its riches.
Wang Ping was a child during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and wrote a poem — “Flash of Selfish Consciousness” — about her experiences as an “excellent Red Guard of Chairman Mao.”
At a live reading, Wang dedicated her poem, "Flash of Selfish Consciousness" to the memory of the cultural revolution.
“I grew up there,” she said, “and for 10 years I had to write self criticism every day… Since I came here I never had to do it and sometimes I get kind of nostalgic.”
Wang Ping’s poem — complete with ironically understated Red Guard vignettes and whimsical snatches of rhetoric from Mao’s teachings — sparked recollections of our own cultural revolution here in America. Read more...
Wang Ping was a child during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and wrote a poem — “Flash of Selfish Consciousness” — about her experiences as an “excellent Red Guard of Chairman Mao.”
At a live reading, Wang dedicated her poem, "Flash of Selfish Consciousness" to the memory of the cultural revolution.
“I grew up there,” she said, “and for 10 years I had to write self criticism every day… Since I came here I never had to do it and sometimes I get kind of nostalgic.”
Wang Ping’s poem — complete with ironically understated Red Guard vignettes and whimsical snatches of rhetoric from Mao’s teachings — sparked recollections of our own cultural revolution here in America. Read more...
Cal State LA journalist covers 1960s antiwar efforts via prof's novel
Yes, book reviews can be helpful to an author, but I was especially thrilled when a student journalist from one of my writing classes interviewed me to write this Cal State LA University Times article. Excerpt and link below:"A Bowl Full of Nails, like my first novel Gates of Eden, has been part of an effort to set the record straight about how ingenious and successful the resistance and alternative-lifestyle movements of the 1960s really were," he says. "Those were important times, not only for me, but for the entire nation. And much of this significance came from the energy, idealism, and action of students on campuses who protested the Vietnam War, including '60s war resistors on our own Cal State LA campus!" [read more]
Charles Degelman’s A BOWL FULL OF NAILS wins a bronze medal
A bowl full of bronze nails for author Charles Degelman — his new novel collected a bronze medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. The awards, known as “IPPYs” are intended to recognize and honor exemplary independent and university titles published each year.
This year's IPPY Bronze is the second kudo for Degelman's 60s tale of resistance rebellion and love. Earlier, A Bowl Full of Nails rose to finalist in the Bellwether Competition, sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver.
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