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Road Rhymes #1
Hypnotizing Lines: Road Rhymes, #1
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780615522203.
In August 2010, j.d.tulloch and his reliable traveling companion, a 1997 Lincoln Town Car, embarked on what has evolved into a fifty-thousand-plus mile journey, trekking westward--and then eastward--on a noble quest of inspiration, an escapade of adventure, in search of an American Dream that once hearkened the spirits of forgotten voyagers who beckoned him from afar as Horace Greeley loudly whispered in his ear, "Go west, young man ... Go west."
Hypnotizing Lines: Road Rhymes, Volume One, the much-anticipated follow-up to j.d.tulloch's debut volume of poems, The Will to Resist: and psalms of anger, love & humanity, chronicles the first four months of his time on the road in poems that root themselves in the American landscape.
In August 2010, j.d.tulloch and his reliable traveling companion, a 1997 Lincoln Town Car, embarked on what has evolved into a fifty-thousand-plus mile journey, trekking westward--and then eastward--on a noble quest of inspiration, an escapade of adventure, in search of an American Dream that once hearkened the spirits of forgotten voyagers who beckoned him from afar as Horace Greeley loudly whispered in his ear, "Go west, young man ... Go west."
Hypnotizing Lines: Road Rhymes, Volume One, the much-anticipated follow-up to j.d.tulloch's debut volume of poems, The Will to Resist: and psalms of anger, love & humanity, chronicles the first four months of his time on the road in poems that root themselves in the American landscape.
90 pages, Paperback
First published August 7, 2011
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J.D. Tulloch
5 books6 followersj.d.tulloch is a writer, filmmaker, and social activist. He is the founder and managing editor of 39 West Press and has worked in broadcast radio and for the management team of the late Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
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October 12, 2011
My two favorite things about Tulloch's book of poetry:
1) The author is not only a personal friend, he's also clearly inspired by those kings (and queens) of carpe diem journeys, the Beats.
2) These poems, geographically inspired, roughly parallel my own road journeys in the West eight years earlier, in 2002. Time and again, my own travel memories resurfaced as I read Tulloch's perspective of California cities, Oregon, Arizona, Vegas, and the roads in between.
Unless you scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE, plan to read these poems with a dictionary nearby, and an encyclopedia of mythology might be useful as well. If you believe there can be value in dissent and that light should be cast on injustice, be prepared to have your blood stirred.
1) The author is not only a personal friend, he's also clearly inspired by those kings (and queens) of carpe diem journeys, the Beats.
2) These poems, geographically inspired, roughly parallel my own road journeys in the West eight years earlier, in 2002. Time and again, my own travel memories resurfaced as I read Tulloch's perspective of California cities, Oregon, Arizona, Vegas, and the roads in between.
Unless you scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE, plan to read these poems with a dictionary nearby, and an encyclopedia of mythology might be useful as well. If you believe there can be value in dissent and that light should be cast on injustice, be prepared to have your blood stirred.
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