GAZING AT FLOWERS :: Haiku of Issa, Michelle Tennison & Santoka

GAZING AT FLOWERS :: Haiku of Issa, Michelle Tennison & Santoka

Gazing at Flowers :: selections of haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Michelle Tennison, & Santoka Taneda :: read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Essential Haiku : Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa - edited by Robert Hass : ECCO Press, Hopewell, New Jersey 1994 Walking Into the Wind : A sweep of poems by Santoka, versions by Cid Corman : Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, California 1990

GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 4

Part 4 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès, translated by Edourad Roditi - this episode (#42) opens with a haiku composed by Michelle Tennison - then continues on with our sequential and final audible offering of this seminal work, Genesis Rejuvenated. We begin where we left off with Chapter 3 / Within the Heart :: The Crystal Well, The Life of the Heart, The Heart of All, And a Man Who Was Seeking, Then a Man Sought, Loneliness, The Pool of Genius, And Which Knows, The End of the Great Horror, Beatitude, The Conquerer, Those Who Died.  La Nouvelle Création : Au Sans Pareil, Paris 1929. Genesis Rejuvenated : The Menard Press, London 1973.

GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 3

Part 3 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès - this episode continues on from Chapter 2 / The First Day - reading the following sections in sequence : The First Night, The Second Day, The Second Night, The Third Day, The Third Night, The Minor Genesis, The Minor Shadow, The Flight of the Seventh Day, The Continents. Before the Page will finish with its presentation of Genesis Rejuvenated in its entirety in our next episode, episode 42.  La Nouvelle Création : Au Sans Pareil, Paris 1929.  Genesis Rejuvenated : The Menard Press, London 1973

GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 2

Part 2 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès - this episode continues reading from where we left off in our previous, Part 1, episode. We begin with Chapter 2 / Bubbzy - reading the following pages in sequence : Blue Waters, Evening, The Lights, The New Adolescent, The Kiss of Peace, Joy, The Song of The Created, The First Voice, The Second Voice, The Third Voice, The Fourth Voice, The Fifth Voice, Life, The Call.  Before the Page, in successive episodes, will continue with the reading of Genesis Rejuvenated until listeners hear it all : a total of four (4) episodes.  La Nouvelle Création : Au Sans Pareil, Paris 1929 Genesis Rejuvenated : The Menard Press, London 1973

GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 1

Part 1 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès - this episode features a reading of the book's brief introduction along with the opening chapter of this spectacular literary and spiritual effort. Originally written in French, then published in France in 1929 under the title La Nouvelle Création, Genesis Rejuvenated was not available in English until 1973; both publications are now rare.  Genesis Rejuvenated was translated from the French by Edouard Roditi. Before the Page, in successive episodes, will continue with the reading of Genesis Rejuvenated until listeners hear it all.  La Nouvelle Création : Au Sans Pareil, Paris 1929 Genesis Rejuvenated : The Menard Press, London 1973