I just want to say that I had a most incredible time,
reading, co-hosting and commiserating with my fellow poets and friends at the
recent Alternative New
Year's Day Spoken Word/Poetry Extravaganza! I want to thank Pete Dolak
and the rest of the staff for keeping the flame going from year-to-year with
this important coming gathering of the poetry tribe. And I want to thank
everyone for their participation & support. Looking forward to seeing you
all throughout the year & next year!
-Obsidian
Hey folks! I just want to give you all an alert
about the new book I just published and released, entitled, Bottom Feeder
and the Rise of the Mealy Men. I know the title sounds a bit strange, but
here’s what it’s about!
Bottom Feeder and the Rise of the Mealy Men is the gritty story of Franky, an educated,
middle-class, Afro-American man who loses everything and has to eke out a new
life on the mean and unforgiving streets of New York City. The saga itself
would be a typically tragic one, were it not for the colorful characters he
meets along the way, as well as the nail-biting escapades he undergoes in his
efforts to adjust to the newfound environment he is suddenly thrusted into.
Franky is also constantly on the run from a
group of vicious and very vindictive, Dominican drug lords, who were now
scouring the city to find and serve justice upon him, as well as from NYPD
Officer Clancey. Ever since Officer Clancey busted him sleeping in the confines
of Shult Park early one morning, he’s made it his personal business to catch
Franky in some act of violation of the law and to bring him to overdue justice.
In addition to this, there are repeated
reminders of his ultimate failure. To his dismay, he keeps running into the
very conspicuous commercial posters of The Mealy Men. The Mealy Men, Vagabond
Joe and Broken Glass are two television superstars, who stole his
original ideas about hosting major poetry events and staged spoken word
performances. Franky’s frequent encounters with these billboards only serves to
exacerbate his growing dissatisfaction with his own life’s predicament.
Although, Bottom Feeder and the Rise of the
Mealy Men is a rollercoaster ride of absurdities and a mockery of what was
once Franky’s contented life, it also provides some insights into his personal
philosophy about the nature of reality, as well as raising the question about
the very meaning of being.
It is a story mingled with hope and tragedy.
Perhaps it is a tale which may cause one to take a second look at the next
homeless person they encounter sleeping on the sidewalk of New York.
I encourage you all to check it out! Here are
the links where you will find Bottom Feeder is being sold (and other
books written by me are sold as well). I hope you will enjoy reading! (Just
cut & paste the site into your URL space and then click unto it to get to
the book site)
-Daniel Canada aka Obsidian
Draft2Digital
https://draft2digital.com/book/3834786
Barnes
& Noble
Apple
https://books.apple.com/us/book/bottom-feeder-and-the-rise-of-the-mealy-men/id6755916967
Thalia
https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1077578148
Vivlio
Smashwords
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1913383
Fable
https://fable.co/book/x-9798232133627
Everand
https://www.everand.com/book/958055746/Bottom-Feeder-and-the-Rise-of-the-Mealy-Men
Rakuten Kobo
You can also reach out to me and/or keep up
with any current postings, at this email and at these social media sites:
Email
My blogsite: OBSIDIAN!!! THE MYSTIC POET TAKES
NEW YORK
https://obsidianthemystic.blogspot.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.canada3
And on X
I'M WORKING ON FILLING UP MY NOVEMBER CALENDAR WITH POETRY GIGS... NEED A LITLE HELP
-Daniel Canada aka Obsidian
Alright friends. Here is my reading of the rest of the preface to my poetry anthology "Zen is Now." I will be reading the 1st poem in my next video. So stay tuned!
Here's a video of me reading my contributed poem in George Wallace's Anthology book: NYC From the Inside, hosted by the folks @ Great Weather. It was great seeing so many of the poetry family and being a part of a live performance again.
-Obsidian
18th of May marked the 6th anniversary of my mother, Sallie's passing from this earthly scene. Always the week after Mother's Day. Well, i've been a little remiss this year. So, here's my post-a pic of my dear mother way back when she was just 17. Here's to you, Sallie Canada. All of my love! (Can you hear Robert Plant singing "All of my Love" in the background?)
Okay, folks! This is Zen is Now Part 2, which is the follow-up of my previous video. Here I will be reading from the preface of my poetry anthology, "Zen is Now," and elucidating upon some of it's contents. So, tune and enjoy the ride!
-Danei Canada aka Obsidian
I am the NYC poet Obsidian and this is the introduction video to a series of videos featuring the spoken word poetry from my anthology, "Zen is Now." You can also follow me or send messages to me through my social medias: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.canada3/ https://twitter.com/lordlumiel or by email: lordlumiel@yahoo.com Thanks for tuning in and enjoy the ride!
Graves of dozens of kings
from the time of King Arthur uncovered in Britain
By Tom Metcalfe published 1 day
ago
Up to 65 burials of kings
and queens have been discovered.
The graves of dozens of what may have been
early British kings, queens, princes and princesses from the era of the
mythical King Arthur have been revealed by a new study.
It suggests that British royal graves dating
from between the fifth and the seventh centuries A.D. have been overlooked
until now, possibly because they weren’t elaborate and contained no valuable
grave goods.
The research reconsiders archaeological
evidence from a little-understood period of British history, between the end of
Roman rule and the late Anglo-Saxon kingdoms — a time traditionally described
by the legends of King Arthur.
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The new study by Ken Dark, an emeritus
professor of archaeology and history at the University of Reading in the United
Kingdom, identifies what may be up to 65 graves of post-Roman British kings and
their families at about 20 burial sites across the west of England and Wales,
including the modern English counties of Somerset and Cornwall.
The British continued to rule in what are now
the west of England, Wales, and parts of Scotland in the centuries after the
end of Roman rule in Britain in the early fifth century, while the invading
Anglo-Saxons settled in the east.
But while Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time were
given elaborate burials with valuable and ornate grave gifts, the Christian
British may have viewed this as a pagan practice, Dark said.
Instead, the British seemed to have buried
their royalty without grave goods in simple graves without stone inscriptions
alongside the graves of common Chistians – although many of the royal graves
were enclosed by a rectangular ditch and probably surrounded by a fence that
has since rotted away, he said.
Dark, who is now at the University of Navarra
in Spain, is the author of the study published this month in the Journal of the
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
"The royal graves are very
standardized," he told Live Science. "They have some variation, just
like the ordinary graves do — some are bigger, some are smaller, some have only
one grave in the center while others have two or three."
Post-Roman Britain
Roman rule in Britain lasted from A.D. 43,
following a Roman invasion under the emperor Claudius, until about A.D. 410,
when the last Roman troops were recalled to Gaul (modern France) amid internal
rebellions in the Roman Empire and
invasions by Germanic tribes. (The Roman general Julius Caesar invaded
southern Britain in 55 B.C. and 54 B.C., but he didn’t establish permanent
Roman rule.)
Between the fifth and seventh centuries, the
Christian British ruled what are now western England and Wales as a patchwork
of small kingdoms that tried to continue Christian Roman traditions. In the
same period, pagan Germanic tribes — the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who
originated in the north of Europe — invaded and settled in the eastern
parts of the country.
The legends of King Arthur, who was supposedly
British and Christian, are set in this period, although most historians think
Arthur didn't actually exist. (Dark, however, suggests that a real person or a
fictional hero of that name was famous as early as the sixth century, because
Dark's previous studies have suggested there was a sudden spike in the use of
the name "Arthur" among British and Irish royal families at the
time.)
Dark began his investigation to address a
long-standing archaeological mystery: while many British kings were known to
have lived during this time period, almost none of their graves had ever been
found.
Until this study, the burial of only one
British king from this era was known after being discovered in the northwest of
Wales; an inscription on a gravestone names the person buried there as Catamanus
(Cadfan in Welsh) and declares that he was a king (rex in Latin.)
But Cadfan may have retired from the kingship
to become a monk before his death, and the phrasing of the inscription implies
his grave was being commemorated because of his status as a monk, Dark
said.
Meanwhile, the graves of at least nine
Anglo-Saxon rulers from the period have been found, including one at the
famous ship-burial at Sutton Hoo near
the east coast of England.
I just want to take this time out to say thanks to
all you poets and readers out there, that purchased a copy of my poetry
anthology, “Zen is Now,” online @ the Smashword site. I am sincerely honored to
see so many readers. I hope you all
enjoy the browsing experience.
I also would like to invite those of you who haven’t
already, to purchase a copy. Lastly, I would like to say that I always look
forward to hearing honest feedback from you, if you care to shoot me an email
or social media message.
As always, I’m wishing everyone to stay well during
these trying covid times. So, keep in touch. All the Best!
-Daniel Canada aka Obsidian
Here is the site: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1035093
My email address: lordlumiel@yahoo.com
Egyptian Dendara Temple 1995 BC. What does that tell us?
-Daniel Canada aka Obsidian
I just want to take this time out to express my
gratitude to all you poets and readers out there, that purchased an advance,
“Pre-release” copy of my poetry anthology, “Zen is Now,” online @ the Smashword
site. I am sincerely honored to see so many orders. I would like to take this opportunity to
invite those of you who haven’t already, to place your orders in before the
release date of September 26th. Thank you all kindly and I look
forward to hearing feedback from you as well!
Here's the Smashword site: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1035093
-Obsidian
No Bio b-s, not for me, just blow-hard pride, dull facts that mask thin poetry -Jay Chollick Madman Speaking New storms up there—thunder in the head—bravado-brained, it bursts! and with such force, that I, with terrifying hands, now coddle meteors! Will myself cruciferous. And briny dazzled, turn sudden clam! owning, as if born into it, its Morbid juice. I will—I must! toward foreign ecstasy, creep newly born—or eel-like, twist; work heavy human into it, find glass and there somehow, re-silver Youth and touch in mirrored memory the acned boy; slim blush and fumbled sexuality—to be ingenious! To throw off cells, leap leaping from oneself, pop-eyed and singing madrigals!—to be another’s bloodline, flowing Smooth. But pity—all these flame-lit possibilities, seem repugnant now, they bring me, tugging madness, to the sharpest edge I feel Unhinged. This brain has rust corroded lobes, they make me thrash; or glued to stodgy platforms, make me sit; watch fireflies; the deep bending of a continent, the twilit haze—but not, full-flood organic, to partake of them, to simply Sit; grow thin, dry husked, and papery—to lose the wing; the latitude; the infinity of lines. And who denied their liquid fingers, touches light? This sanity is Too sad for me. I’d rather say—come here magnificence! you be gardenia; and I, turning leather—oxford or anklestrap, I’m someone’s Shoe
