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Melancholy Moon

Author: Gregory Richard Barden

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-06-18

Total Pages: 0

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From the author: Death and life are the same thread - they tie us to the Great Unknown, and complete the mobius that is eternity ... the only difference - the only element that defines their value - is that just ONE, is permanent. That water flows on as we are brought to bloom and drink of existence, and so does it return to the rill - to trickle and tumble and plunge the depths, and sate the entropic thirst of creation. This is the cycle of universality, the motion of perpetuity, though it is NOT its definition or analogue. Poetry is the glyphic expression of all that actuality encompasses - the creative endeavor to paint with words upon the canvas of time ... how blessed we are to hold that brush. - Gregory Richard Barden Editor's note: This is Greg's debut collection of poetry. Melancholy Moon was originally the title of a saccharine sweet song sung by American close harmony trio The Andrews Sisters. The title has been repurposed here for Gregory Richard Barden's debut collection. Unlike its precursor, Greg's poetry is anything but saccharine sweet. Like the song, he deals with affairs of the heart, but he does so in a deeply emotional and imagery-laden style that is boots on the ground rather than walking on air. Greg generates a lot of romantic atmosphere and imagery in his classically style poems, but his poems are laced with realism and down to earth notions rather than candy floss hopes. There are also free form poems contained herein. All that is Between for example, deftly deals with the curveballs and bruises of life in a beautifully stoic manner. Whether in sonnets and metred rhyme or in free verse, Gregory Richard Barden has a voice that deserves to be heard, and as you read through this collection you will see exactly why I love his poetry. It is incisively composed and it is achingly beautiful. - Steve Wheeler (author of Shocks & Stares, Nocturne and RITE) What they said about Melancholy Moon: The words will sing to your soul. - Charlene Phare (Author of Cobalt Skies) Melancholy Moon reads as smooth as a sweet moon shadow. - Matt Elmore (Author of Constellation Road) Gregory Barden's poetry is a refreshing mix of emotional intent, colorful storytelling, and American experience. His unique voice radiates from "Melancholy Moon" and warms the soul of readers through its well-spun thread of verse. - Dr Stephen Caldwell (Associate Professor, University of Arkansas) Greg Barden is a gifted poet and weaver of words. "Melancholy Moon" is a heartfelt collection I know you will enjoy. I sure did! - Mike Metheny (Past editor, JAM Magazine) Melancholy Moon is sure to fill your every poetic desire. - Brandon Adam Haven (author of Into the Grey) Gregory Barden's poetry captures the heartache and joyous carnal pleasure of love and love's ever flowing connection to the sea and the heavens in ways that dare us to bare our own souls with the same courage he shows. Whenever I am blessed with the chance to taste his bittersweet words and haunting memories, I am left with a smile on my lips and flutter in my heart. - Nat Warren-White (author of Slocum's Wake)

The Melancholy Moon

Author: Glenda C. Manus

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781532714573

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Funny, witty Cassandra Phillips has reason to be cynical. Life has dealt her numerous blows so she's put up an impenetrable wall around her own heart. Jilted by her husband for another woman, she now faces what she calls "the Big C" diagnosis, proof enough that even God has deserted her. Independent and strong-willed, she's determined to fight this battle alone, but when the pounds start melting away because of the chemo, her big sister steps in and whisks her away under the guise of a summer vacation. She coddles and cares for her like a mother hen, willing her to get well. The lively seaport town revives her soul as well as her body, and all goes well until a blue-eyed mystery man moves in next door to the little house they've rented. Sparks literally fly when they're together and she's both intrigued and suspicious when she surmises that he may have ties to a drug smuggling operation. Is it true, or is it her writer's imagination working overtime that makes her think so? Whoever this man is, his blue eyes have cast a spell upon her heart. Just when it appears he's equally smitten with her, things go terribly wrong when drugs, greed and wrong choices threaten to tear their worlds apart. Finding God again may be the last thing on her mind, but it may be the only thing that can save her.

The Vanishing Moon

Author: Joseph Coulson

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1935744216

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In The Vanishing Moon, Joseph Coulson writes with insight and beauty about the American working-class, about the strength and strain of family bonds, and about tragic incidents that haunt the human psyche over a lifetime. Set in Cleveland and Detroit, the novel chronicles two generations of the Tollman family, opening at the start of the Great Depression and moving forward through five decades to the Vietnam War. The first narrator, Stephen Tollman, looks back on his early adventures with his older brother, as both boys try to shield their siblings from the confusion and vulnerability of financial ruin. Later, as World War II approaches, Katherine Lennox, musician and political activist, offers an outsider’s view of the Tollmans, mesmerizing both Stephen and his brother with her energy and ambition. James Tollman comes of age in the 1960s, and as the youngest son in the family’s second generation, he strives to understand his father and mother amidst a summer of assassinations and civil unrest. Stephen returns to finish the story, struggling to hold his own against the currents of memory and abandoned dreams. Told with the compression and intensity of a poem, The Vanishing Moon is a novel of desire, unyielding necessity, and the people and places that inevitably disappear from our lives.

Low Moon

Author: Jason

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2009-07-14

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1606991558

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This book features five yarns―all brand new with the exception of the aforementioned “Low Moon,” which is collected into book form for the first time. The new stories lead off with “Emily Says Hello,” a typically deadpan Jason tale of murder, revenge and sexual domination. Then, the wordless “&” tells two tales at once: one about a skinny guy trying to steal enough money to save his ill mother, and the other about a fat guy murderously trying to woo his true love. The reason we follow these two parallel stories becomes obvious only on the very last page, in Jason’s inimitable genre-mashing style. “Early Film Noir” can best be described as The Postman Always Rings Twice meetsGroundhog Day. But starring cavemen. And finally, “You Are Here” features alien kidnappings, space travel, and the pain and confusion of family ties, culminating in an enigmatic finale that rivals Jason’s greatest twists. Funny, poignant, and wry, Low Moon shows one of the world’s most acclaimed graphic novelists at the absolute peak of his powers.

Mooncop

Author: Tom Gauld

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1770463550

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The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon...Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.” The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

Playing with the Moon

Author: Eliza Graham

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0230756786

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Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and husband Tom retreat to an isolated village on the Dorset coast, hoping to find the solitude that will allow them to cope with their loss and rebuild their foundering marriage. Walking on the beach one day, they unearth a human skeleton. It is a discovery which will plunge Minna into a mystery which will consume her for months to come. The remains are soon identified as those of Private Lew Campbell, a black American GI who, it seems, drowned during a wartime exercise in the area half a century before. Growing increasingly preoccupied with the dead soldier’s fate, Minna befriends a melancholy elderly woman, Felix, who lived in the village during the war. As Minna coaxes Felix’s story from her, it becomes clear that the old woman knows more about the dead GI than she initially let on. Playing with the Moon is an unforgettable novel of memory and loss, about the legacy of war, and the need to reconcile ourselves to our past in order to live with the present. Felix’s final shocking confession allows her to come to terms with an event that has cast a shadow over her life, and helps Minna to begin to accept her own loss.