Blowing Out The Candles: Book One, Souls

by James Paul Gee

Overview

"Souls" is the first book in Jim Gee's Trilogy, "Blowing Out The Candles".

Sometimes, when a person has spent his life pursuing a life of scholarly work and deep contemplation, if a moment comes when he hears music or poetry, however strident or dissonant or melodic, whatever the text, and however raw and revealing it may be, he writes it down and does not fear it.

This is Garn's understanding of how Jim Gee wrote his poems. He says he doesn�t know where the poems came from. They arrived it would seem, like Stravinsky�s Rite of Spring, only for Gee the �rite� comes in the winter, in the midst of his aging discontent.

�All of us humans think, feel, and speak in poetry when we hurt,� Gee says. �Prick us, do we not all bleed in pulses and rhythms, in metaphors and pleas? When we drop pretense, we are incensed as humans at unfairness. We are incensed at anyone being left out, put down, or left to drown in sorrow.�

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148971368
Publisher:	Garn Press
Publication date:	11/12/2013
Series:	Blowing Out The Candles , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

James Paul Gee was born in San Jose, California in 1948. He was raised a devote Catholic and attended a seminary for 5 years, starting at the age of 13. He received his PhD in linguistics in 1975 from Stanford University. He has written and taught in a wide variety of areas, including syntactic theory, psycholinguistics, literary stylistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, literacy studies, ASL linguistics, deaf education, learning theory, and digital media, with an emphasis on video games and learning. He has taught and been tenured at six different colleges and held three endowed chairs. He is currently the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor at Arizona State University. He loves nature and birding, and abhors the disrespect we humans have shown our world and each other. He writes poetry as the �spirit� moves him, not as an academic, but as an older human being who, like all old people, can see the face of death, the value of life, and the need to imagine and implement new and better worlds for all creatures, human and otherwise.