242 Mirror Poems And Reflections

'242' is Dr. Marc Latham's second poetry collection, after the first one was published by Chipmunka in 2009. The first collection contained poems written by Marc from his youth to the creation of the Folding Mirror form, while this book focuses on the FM form recognised by Lewis Turco in his definitive 'The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms'. Caroline Gill, an award-winning poet whose 'Thalatta, Thalatta' Folding Mirror poem was used as an example in 'The Book of Forms' provides an introductory explanation of the Folding Mirror form at the start of this book. This book contains 121 Folding Mirror poems created in three years by Marc Latham as he tried to make sense of the universe and life's place in it. They are supported by 121 reflections relevant to the poems' themes. The seven chapters reflect the wide spectrum of issues and topics covered, being divided into: personal-psychological (containing thirty-four poems and thirty-four reflections), social (19-19), culture (15-15), literary (12-12), nature (30-30), travel (6-6) and space (5-5). The poems and reflections were inspired by the deepest thoughts of a PhD graduate and world traveller, and his new research and observations on the above subjects. Before and during his world travels and university education, Marc was inspired by Romantic and Beat poets, Rock musicians and other writers and journalists who have trawled the mind for self-analysis while searching for knowledge about human nature. Marc's first collection featured bipolarity and ADHD in the title, and included several poems inspired by them. These topics feature again in this collection, with the poet finding the mirror form especially conducive for bipolarity poetry. From his position in the average age's middle-age, Marc's poems and reflections in this collection stretch from humanity's prehistoric past to our current space exploration and prospective future, while also comparing us with the animal world, and tackling the important social and environmental problems of the present. Having focused on hegemony theory in his doctoral research, Marc uses his poetry to try and break through the cultural 'norms and accepted truths' of the modern monotheistic world to highlight alternative realities that could possibly improve conditions for plant, animal and human life. Marc uses the two sides of the Folding Mirror poem to show at least two sides of arguments and issues, with the folding line in the middle either connecting or dividing the two halves. There is also time for beauty and comedy amongst the digging and depression, and some poems and reflections provide colourful light-heartedness to lift the mood. Several of the poems posted as reflections were written while Marc undertook a 100-mile trek to view Everest in the Nepalese Himalayas. It is hoped that as well as entertaining the reader, the poems and thoughts will support the preservation of life and nature, and improve human understanding of itself and the world.

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the "indistinct regard" (Othello). Utilizing a methodological premise on the notions of early modern indistinction and multiplicity, Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard analyses the survival of English art after iconoclasm and the circulation of Italian art and motifs, methodologically reassessing the conventional comparison between painting and literature. The book examines Caravaggio’s and Shakespeare’s works in the perspective of the gradual waning of symbolism, the emergence of chiaroscuro and mirror imagery underneath their radically new concepts of representation, and the triumph of multiplicity and indistinction. Furthermore, this work assesses the validity of the twin concepts of multiplicity and indistinction as an interpretive tool in a dialectical interplay with much recent work on indeterminacy in literary criticism and the sciences.

A deliberately chosen selection of poems that aims firstly at relating to the emotions of the readers. Mirroring the emotions evoked in our day to day experiences. Secondly this book of carefully woven words aims at your pleasure in reading it.

The collections of poems were inspired by different events occurred in my life which I have observed through people’s eyes and soul during the years. “Your Eyes Are the Mirror of Your Soul” I have been writing at a very young age.... -thank you Lynda

Reflections of life, love, loss and other things through poetry.

Go Look in the Mirror is a collection of poems, reflections, and letters. It is about life, love and sorrow and the challenges life throws at us at any given moment. We cant predict when they come we; we just have to figure out how to deal with them when they do. As a mother, nanny, wife and friend. I have witnessed first hand the struggles my children, husband and friends have gone through. I have seen them unhappy in the relationships, feeling ignored by their significant other' or keeping themselves so busy they forget to look up and see the people next to them. I have listened to their struggles and have seen the sadness they carry around with them on the daily. From depression, daunting physical challenges and suicidal thoughts. This book is about accepting ourselves just they way we are, about accepting our way of being in the world. young old . big or small, making time for us, finding balance, and not accepting being treated poorly. It also also includes little tidbits of how important it is to have friends and people in our lives, to live a balanced life with responsibilities and boundaries as well as finding time to relax and have fun. Most of all this book is to offer encouragement to you the reader and be the voice for all the things we might want to say to some one but don't. sort of the the unspoken word. life is made up of moments big and small. At times these moments can be so hard and get us so down that we might not be able to look in the mirror and see our true reflections. Good news is we can change the narrative. Walk with me through my writings let me show you that life is worth living, that you are enough. All you have to do is look in the mirror and see what I see. Together lets change the reflection you see when you look at it.