The Green Notebook: Poems on Family, Relationships, Spirituality, Self-Enquiry, Recovery, Aca, Disruption, Death, Walking through the mirror and Cats

By John Angell Grant

"The Green Notebook gives one the key to enter the extraordinary poetical world of John Angell Grant. It is a world constituted of the lyrical and the horrific, the serene and th

• Language: English
• Publisher: EYEPUBLISHEWE
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798987025970

John Angell Grant

Bay Area poet John Angell Grant is the author of The Green Notebook, a collection of poems issued by Eyepublishewe in San Francisco. Grant's poetry has appeared in Tangents, Jeudi des Mots (translated into French by Marilyne Bertoncini), Behind a Door, Mots de PaiX et d'Espérance, Time to Arrive, and elsewhere. (Please click on underlined hyperlinks for more information.)An award-winning filmmaker, Grant is also the author of Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room, a scholarly study of poet T.S. Eliot's late plays. Grant's short films "Two Stoners" and "1958" have won multiple awards over the past year. Grant is also the author of 12 fully produced stage plays. He was playwright-in-residence at Berkeley's Bare Stage, and a member of the OATCO Playwrights Unit in San Francisco. John's play LANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION was produced in New York by the Manhattan Class Company (MCC), as well as in Los Angeles at the Gardner Stage and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Locally, his play "A Package for Max" was produced at the Pear Theater in Mountain View, as well as in Chicago by New Branch Theater.Grant's serialized novel Palo Alto Odyssey ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post. A second serialized novel, A Deadly Secret, also ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post.Grant has worked in video production, where he produced a television series on the Holocaust, as well as 100 two-minute films. He has written for American Theater magazine and many other publications, authoring 2,000 theater reviews, and 300 poems. Grant has a B.A. in Comp Literature from Columbia, and an MLA from Stanford. For more information, visit www.johnangellgrant.com

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"The Green Notebook gives one the key to enter the extraordinary poetical world of John Angell Grant. It is a world constituted of the lyrical and the horrific, the serene and the troubled, the desired and the lost. It is a world forever in motion and the poet at its center is Whitmanian in his ceaseless engagement with everything coming his way. The encounters might result in a witty and off-the-cuff haiku or, just as likely, a sober and well-wrought sonnet. Versatility leads the way. The poems about his father are unforgettable in their anguish and the poems finding peace in the simplicity of the everyday are consoling. Above all, this collection gives us a poet fully present in a reality he has been given and which he redeems." –William M. Chace, Professor of English and President Emeritus of Emory University, author of The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.

John Angell Grant has written a splendid collection of poems, compassionate and eloquent, comprising the daily, often represented by his cat, the awful, most represented by his father, and the inevitable, with sad incisive thoughts about Death. They help us confront our lives, both in their trivial and more profound aspects. – Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University, author of The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War.

"The Green Notebook offers rueful wry wit haunted by hideously violent childhood abuse. Now grown old, Grant savors solitude and compassion in a garden ringed by mirrors, crossing to the other side and back, entering realms of hurt and delight with direct clear spoken verse and quirky sonnets.  An astonishing and moving book." – Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director Emeritus, Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University, author of the poetry collection Witness: 2017-2020.

Okay, dahlink, I read the whole thing. I found it oddly comforting, especially Moving Toward Death. I like the snarky sonnets especially. Also Le Carnet Vert (I lived in Paris for many years). I think your work would very much suit The New Yorker. You're strange, there's no doubt about it, but most of my favorite people are similarly afflicted. Thank you for entrusting me with your fine work. And I don't even like cats in general. I think they know too much. Plus one of the neighboring feral pussies kicked my little dog's ass.  – Raechel Donahue, kick-ass disc jockey at San Francisco’s KSAN radio and Los Angeles’ KROQ.

The Green Notebook

Poems on

Family, relationships, spirituality, self-enquiry, recovery, ACA,

disruption, death, walking through the mirror, and cats

By

John Angell Grant

Also by John Angell Grant:

Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room: Plays of T.S. Eliot

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