- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (31 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595341276
- ISBN-13: 978-0595341276
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,191,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Collections of Madness: Amateur Experiments in Genius begins with e-mail conversations between three poets, Jane, Asil, and Nod, as they contemplate the answers to life's most difficult questions. Together, they decide to write a book and let their findings be known.
The friends experience the universe together, but also individually on separate, bumpy paths. Jane, Asil and Nod share their insights, disillusionments, and life-changing epiphanies. In "Questions from the Lonely Girl," Jane Smith explores how she is learning to breathe her own eclectic beauty into the world. In Asil Nottarts's section, "socio-political, purely poetic, mindless ranting, and the creative process," her whimsical poetry asks such introspective questions as "Who am I, really?" and "Is there ultimately any difference?" In "neo/fight blues," poet Nod Nihill2 offers a wide range of verse including creative solutions for a world in crisis, the contents of a fortune cookie, and patterns of rejection.
In Collections of Madness, the prolific words of Smith, Nottarts, and Nihill2 will entertain, enrage, excite, and transport you from the profound to the profane--and from the mundane to the extraordinary.
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Nod Nihill2, Jane Smith, and Asil Nottarts are a ridiculous, oddly perfect trinity. This is their first compilation of poetry.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
An Acquired Flavor of Madness
1 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
Reviewer Lloyd hung himself with, "...it really makes one look very ignorant to say something that is wrong when it is as simple to find from just opening a dictionary." So I'll refrain from stating the obvious.
Besides the fact that I personally know the authors of this book, I have considerable reservations about writing this review because they have the gall to ascribe genius to their first-time foray into publishing. Ergo, although I was asked to write this review, my opinion surely has not been coerced.
You shouldn't buy this book because you are looking for the next Shakespeare. You should buy this book because at the very least it will cause you to question almost everything you rely on to help you swallow the sugar-coated pill that is American culture as pimped to you by the mass media. As such, you may very well disagree with their perspectives. However, a certain respect can be found for the purposed freshman dissection and unmarketable presentation of their (and ultimately our) most pressing insecurities and vulnerabilities - without even the slightest hint of an apology.
It's not a smooth ride, but it's a wreck of mental, emotional, and spiritual proportions that can be redeemed if you choose to rubberneck.
Besides the fact that I personally know the authors of this book, I have considerable reservations about writing this review because they have the gall to ascribe genius to their first-time foray into publishing. Ergo, although I was asked to write this review, my opinion surely has not been coerced.
You shouldn't buy this book because you are looking for the next Shakespeare. You should buy this book because at the very least it will cause you to question almost everything you rely on to help you swallow the sugar-coated pill that is American culture as pimped to you by the mass media. As such, you may very well disagree with their perspectives. However, a certain respect can be found for the purposed freshman dissection and unmarketable presentation of their (and ultimately our) most pressing insecurities and vulnerabilities - without even the slightest hint of an apology.
It's not a smooth ride, but it's a wreck of mental, emotional, and spiritual proportions that can be redeemed if you choose to rubberneck.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Mmmm...Poetry
7 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
Jane expresses the ordinary madness of Woman well. Her words, while simple, are stunning. Asil has great depth. I wouldn't be surprised if words themselves sometimes fail expressing it. I enjoyed her articulate observations in poetic fashion. Nod is a creative oddity, but a genius. I read his stuff deliberately and with my entire mind involved in his work. I could not allow my eyes to simply fall over his words. I'm wiser for having read it. I have this book on my "Wish List." I read a friend's copy and can't wait for mine.
Some like poetry and enjoy diversity. I LOVE poetry and TRHIVE on diversity. Some don't love or thrive on anything; they're contrary for the sake of contrariness, critical for the sake of criticality, and wouldn't know "enjoyment" if it smacked them. Reading these poets made me want to know them. I look forward to reading more of their collections. Jane, Asil, and Nod, don't stop! We already want more!
If you are critical of everything you cross, and narcissistic enough to think all is beneath you and not worthy of your time or energy, then don't waste time on this book...you won't get it. If you have some pre-conceived, literature class-induced notion of what's "good" poetry or "bad" poetry, don't waste time with any poetry books...you won't get it. If you have a habit of taking time to appreciate what's around you, of being delighted by unexpected treasures, of contemplating your loneliness, of ranting mindlessly, of seeking ways to define the sacred, or grasping poetry in all of its confusing and surprising wonder, then buy this book...you'll get it...and if you don't, you'll surely enjoy the journey. "Collections of Madness" is just what it says. Insanity, in many delicious forms, abides within this book.
Some like poetry and enjoy diversity. I LOVE poetry and TRHIVE on diversity. Some don't love or thrive on anything; they're contrary for the sake of contrariness, critical for the sake of criticality, and wouldn't know "enjoyment" if it smacked them. Reading these poets made me want to know them. I look forward to reading more of their collections. Jane, Asil, and Nod, don't stop! We already want more!
If you are critical of everything you cross, and narcissistic enough to think all is beneath you and not worthy of your time or energy, then don't waste time on this book...you won't get it. If you have some pre-conceived, literature class-induced notion of what's "good" poetry or "bad" poetry, don't waste time with any poetry books...you won't get it. If you have a habit of taking time to appreciate what's around you, of being delighted by unexpected treasures, of contemplating your loneliness, of ranting mindlessly, of seeking ways to define the sacred, or grasping poetry in all of its confusing and surprising wonder, then buy this book...you'll get it...and if you don't, you'll surely enjoy the journey. "Collections of Madness" is just what it says. Insanity, in many delicious forms, abides within this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
WTF!!!! by Penny Goldenthrall Killeen-TX@the Keattle
1 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
I really dug this-though it was crazy!!! The second & third parts were too weird-in the second part we have Politics-Blah-Blah & the the next we have Mystical-Blah-Blah...but the first part was a cut up of Jewel & a Mad Woman!!! Get it you to will say WTF!!!
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