What's Mine Is Now Yours

by Jan Michael Alejandro

Overview

The poems in "What's Mine Is Now Yours" shares the past and present world of poet, Jan Michael Alejandro, and the world around him... Here, take it, read it
What’s mine is now yours
The words on the page
as it reads through you
are no longer mine
It takes on new purpose
develops new rhyme.

Here, take it, see it
What’s mine is now yours
Strokes on the canvas
as it paints through you
are no longer mine
It takes on new vision
that changes in time.

Here, take it, sing it.
What’s mine is now yours
The notes in each measure
as it plays through you
are no longer mine
It takes on new feeling
with most every line…

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013882539
Publisher:	Nail Soup Publishing
Publication date:	12/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	172 KB

About the Author

Jan Michael Alejandro is a published and produced playwright, songwriter and poet. His plays, music and poems have been performed in Los Angeles and New York City.
Jan’s dada, avant-garde, beatnik inspired CD was released and premiered at the Dada Poetry Salon IV in Greenwich Village, on March 18, 2011.
And his musical collaboration with French novelist/ independent filmmaker, Sophia Balestri, on The Tower/ La Maison Dieu ‘ Project XXII is available on YouTube.
Jan’s produced plays include What’s the Play About?, Letecia, Foreplay, No Rest For Santa, **Buon Natale, Mountain Road, Baking With Mrs. Claus, Ornament Exchange, Chin Up, Personal Space Invaders, and Common Bonds, which received “Critics Pick” from Backstage West. (**Co-written with Mara New)
His produced musicals/operas and songwriting credits include: *The Queen and the Dragon, *Gift of the Magi, Holiday Mitzvah, Myjovi el Musical, Bad Dad.
Music for Procter & Gamble’s Another World and Guiding Light, film score for TVC’s First Strike, Songs recorded by various artists including: Ava Cherry (Capitol Records), Arnold Mc Culler (What’s Good Records) and songs produced by David Benoit (AVI Records). (*Co-written with Jonathan Price)
The Tower (Video)
Jan toured with Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Blondie, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and Todd Rundgren.

Editorial Reviews

“Jan Michael Alejandro is a creative hurricane launching Cat 5 power into poetry, music and playwriting--sometimes all three at once! His capacity for understanding the human condition runs deep, and what may appear simple on first encounter blossoms like a beautiful exotic flower on repeated listening or reading. Alejandro gets to the core of emotions without giving it away. When you read a poem of his, or see one of his plays, its echo will come back to you a day or a year later, sheddi

Kat George

“Jan Michael Alejandro’s poetry is infused with sheer rhythmic vitality. Fasten your seatbelts—this is one gritty, humorous, dog lovin’, mind and sun reflecting, ride.”

Jane Ormerod

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