Avram Gur Arye’s AGAIN on the mountain, a long, “semi-autobiographical” prose piece and poem; harks from a distinct Berkeley Bubble (“coping strategiey?”), but all with a first-person voice.
Gur Arye courageously heads toward “the hope for peace among us” out of thour BLM upheaval, producing a beautiful glossy paperback illustrated with his exquisite, thought-provoking photographs. His story wraps both his head and heart around “THE DISEASE” of hatred (racism).
By owning his privilege of being “from a moderately racist Jewish family” in New York City, “but out in the world… accepted / since most importantly / I WAS WHITE,” he sets his sights on pictorial and poetic reimagining.
AGAIN on the mountain is an elder architect and photographer’s offering and voice. Like his arrangements of antique and therapy figurines, there’s a static quality to AGAIN, “BUT IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THAT:”
To “recapture that /
revolutionary (American) /
flame” after “300 years of /
MURDEROUS ABUSE” “while surrounded by /
BLEAK POLITICAL PROSPECTS;” each of us has to suss out, leverage and re-enshrine genuine
“JUSTICE” to test thour viable beliefs and actions.
Plunging into his stimulating online world of creativity and publishing (blurb, fineartamerica…) shows us
hopeful, nourishing alternatives to isolated expression available NOW.
Now, if we can just spread these powerful means to achieve his idealistic ends…
https://www.blurb.com/ebooks/reader.html?e=737938#/spread/17
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/avram-gurarye
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