[Tony Barnstone]

Hi Friends,

Please see the flyer below. The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/8196360142?ref=myi_title_dp

I am so happy to say that my new book of poems (kind of a new and selected reimagined as a themed book) is now available from Amazon.com. It has 10 amazing full-page color reproductions of paintings by Alexandra Eldridge.

A number of the sonnets (all the philosophical ones, which you might remember!) were aided by crits at Eratosphere.

Thanks! Tony Barnstone


In Apocryphal Poems, Tony Barnstone tells all the truth, but tells it slant, creating a world like ours but seen refracted in a slightly skewed mirror. Here are imaginary sciences, apocryphal religions, our mortality sprouting into new life, strange philosophies. Here is the Buddha as a flight of neutrinos, beach partiers in Florida as stars being swallowed by a black hole, the beast of the Apocalypse emerging from the labyrinth in the guise of AI, love manifesting as oxytocin and vasopressin, those groovy hormones. “Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth” writes William Blake, and in the refracting mirror of these poems our world shatters to reflect our strangeness, multiplicity and changing masks of life in the 21st century.

[Siham Karami]

Huge congrats, Tony! The cover picture is wild; I love it! Bodes well for what’s inside. Also “A Whole Lot of Florida” got my interest as that’s where I live now, for good or ill. “A Whole Florida of Despair” is a great title, it all kinds of sums up the state, which does contain pockets of relief in odd places. Sounds like an attractively wacko collection. Worth all the iguanas I have to sell to buy it (not enough to make a dent in the population, don’t worry).

Best,
Siham

[Alexandra Baez]

Hey, Tony, how exciting! I've been a big fan of your philosophical sonnets, particularly, and I'm really happy to be able to have them all in my hands now. It's so neat when somebody says they're going to do something big and wonderful and then they actually do. I've just put in my order. That's such neat artwork on the cover, too--mysterious and a bit spooky and very elegant at the same time. I can't wait to see everything that's inside. And of course it will feel like a special kind of surreally amazing to see little bits here and there that I had something to do with.

[Matt Q]

Congratulations Tony! Great to see that those poems are out in the world. Love the cover, too.

-Matt

[Tony Barnstone]

…it’s been a crazy time of travel, deadlines, medical stuff, family and I’ve been away too long to be polite replying so belatedly. But I do appreciate the good word, folks.

And I see from another thread that Alexandra, one of my favorites here on the Board, has passed on. So very sad to hear that and it makes me even sadder to be silent so long.

Take care all, Tony