released May 7, 2013
The film, 2012, which can be viewed via
www.bluexbaxter.com/2012 is the measure of poetry, book 10.
This package includes books 11 & 12. They are called, "Book 11: Letters To Carla Bozulich, & Book 12: Bob. Dylan. Is. Great.
Book 11 is more or less a collection of writing which erupted after finding a particularly potent person of art, and buying her work. The reaction, in review, was decidedly sexual, non-conformist, and lucid dream like.
Book 12 is the final collection of everything that is left after living. Both these books are necessary "work downs" from the extremely intense experience of the preceding portions of the book. Its completion. And now, release, means only one thing to the author-- You're not waiting on me.
Book I was the first of the series. Organized around traveling, rumor, the number 24, and wandering - it speaks to growth, madness, struggle, and the procurement of wisdom.
Book II is intense mathematics - street wisdom, points to different works, describes the madness of the city, letters to everyone from record companies to lovers, DNA,
Book III is a wired symphony. Birthed from hundreds of miles of travel, apparent failure, strength, shadow, and initial surge of enlightenment when one pursues one's destiny - its a collection of words many great poets would be envious of, many great story teller's dream of, and seeks to close the gap between reality and heaven.
Book VI is is War. The initial, rough, combination of realizing one's dreams are becoming reality. Details struggle, pulls on the great works and great people - shows paths to internal peace, decay of the wicked, and the fight for the more evolved sector of human kind - in the personal and collective.
Book V is Winter. Solitary. Affluence. Confidence. Bravery.
Book VI Is a combination of dream states, altered realities, altered goals, produced in heat. The 100 page epic poem is reminiscent of Nostradamus - lost loves, won wars, and some other things unrecallable.
Book VII Is Revolution.
These 'lost writings' complete the symphony of reason, rhyme, evil, redemption, information, the original left out, or had left.
The term - "more complete" comes to mind, but, if you're new to the challenge of the author's work, you'll find out later the numerals have meaning, the numbers needed rounded, and the icing on the icing of the cake (books 11 and 12 serve to be) enhance the intense beauty of the work, render it a masterpiece, and ensure it to be, at least, a book standing its ground amongst the catalogue of other great works - and, at best, a title whose contents you can learn to allow to add details, fine lines, bulk points, & weaving, narrative beauty to your mind and days.
As obscure as it gets, as real as a line can be, as harsh or as wide as written word has evolved to become-- its a link in the chain of the anatomy of knowledge - I wrote it. I lived it.
I'm sure you'll enjoy--- "The Measure Of Poetry: Books I-12"
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