Chronicles

By Acie Cargill

Chronicles is a collection of 65 poems by Acie Cargill. They concern events and people he has either observed or thought about. They are written in a journalistic poetry style that he learned and developed with his mentors Mark Strand and Gwendolyn Brooks. There are six poems at the end by Lauren Seeley and one by Marlene Broderick.

Cargill has written a series of poetry books which will be soon published relating mostly to events and attitudes of the past 50 years. He hopes that future generations will be able to use this material to apprise and evaluate life at this time.

Some of the poems are from the words of Martin Luther King, Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Abraham Lincoln. Some are critical of environmental abuse, animal abuse, police brutality, self-abuse, general unfriendliness among neighborhoods, the adulation of English and other royalty, the way homeless are treated, and excessively large homes and the lifestyles that goes with them.

Some of the poems are adulatory for individuals such as Danica Patrick, Bobby Thompson, Green Beret heroes, war protesters, hobo Liberty Justice, climber Ron Kirk, Pope John Paul II, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, Coach Jack Robinson, Jack Kervorkian, and Greenpeace activists. There are also tributes celebrating the 50 years of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.

Cargill is an environmental and animal rights activist and a member of American Mensa and the Grammy Association.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Acie Cargill
• Release date: May 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311971562

Acie Cargill

Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA Poet Laureate Mark Strand and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger, who wrote Little Big Man that Arthur Penn made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role. Cargill also studied journalism with instructor Jean Daily. His work is a synthesis of all these styles.He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He also is a member of the Grammy Association, The US Quill and Scroll Society.Cargill is a vegetarian, a former physician, a musical performer on a variety of instruments, an environmental activist, a lecturer, medical reviewer, a lover, a cannabis user, and a seer.

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Chronicles

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Acie Cargill

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Synopsis

Chronicles is a collection of 65 poems by Acie Cargill. They concern events and people he has either observed or thought about. They are written in a journalistic poetry style that he learned and developed with his mentors Mark Strand and Gwendolyn Brooks. There are six poems at the end by Lauren Seeley and one by Marlene Broderick.

Cargill has written a series of poetry books which will be soon published relating mostly to events and attitudes of the past 50 years. He hopes that future generations will be able to use this material to apprise and evaluate life at this time.

Some of the poems are from the words of Martin Luther King, Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Abraham Lincoln. Some are critical of environmental abuse, animal abuse, police brutality, self-abuse, general unfriendliness among neighborhoods, the adulation of English and other royalty, the way homeless are treated, and excessively large homes and the lifestyles that goes with them.

Some of the poems are adulatory for individuals such as Danica Patrick, Bobby Thompson, Green Beret heroes, war protesters, hobo Liberty Justice, climber Ron Kirk, Pope John Paul II, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, Coach Jack Robinson, Jack Kervorkian, and Greenpeace activists. There are also tributes celebrating the 50 years of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.

Cargill is an environmental and animal rights activist and a member of American Mensa and the Grammy Association.

About The Author

Acie Cargill studied poetry with the late US Poet Laureate, Mark Strand and the late Illinois Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks. He was also coached in novel writing by Thomas Berger, who wrote the book for the Arthur Penn-Dustin Hoffman successful collaboration, Little Big Man.

Cargill has also been involved in writing folk music and plays traditional music for a living. He has completed a series of 4 books of his poetry that will be available as ebooks. He is also working on a play and a novel, and has recently published his first novel, Puerto Rico that is available online as an ebook.

He is a vegetarian, former holistic physician, and a member of American Mensa and the Grammy Association.

Table of Contents

Synopsis

About The Author

1. Greenpeace Heroes, the 450 foot Chicago smokestack

2. Get Rid of Royalty

3. Little Sister, Anorexia

4. I Cry For The Earth

5. Gigantos, The Rio Whale Rescue Attempt

6. Earth Liberation Front

7. Pope John Paul II, The Peacemaker

8. Words of Martin Luther King

9. Escape from a Nursing Home

10. McMansions

11. Words of Abraham Lincoln

12. Danica Patrick

13. Did Jesus Exist

14. Pirates of Somalia

15. A Man’s Man

16. I Got Pet Zombies

17. Chicago, 1968, Democratic National Convention

18. Death of Ron Kirk

19. Liberty Justice

20. Homeless

21. Heroes of Huong Tran

22. Fortresses of Hate

23. Bobby Thompson, The Shot Heard Round the World

24. Epilepsy

25. The Sea

26. Nero Fiddling While Rome Burns

27. Where I Stand / Ted Kennedy

28. Should You Go To Your Reunion

29. If You Eat Meat

30. Bubbly Creek, Chicago

31. Bobby Sands