{"product_id":"imagine-tom-fallon-9781597132800","title":"Imagine: The Abridged Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Fallon's \u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003epoints to the ancient human questions \"why creation\" and \"what is the meaning of life.\" It is a prose and free verse literary epic of human beings on a small planet in the mystifying great creation that is beautiful, frightening and astonishing. The epigraphs \"Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?\" of Paul Gaugin and Eugene O'Neill, \"I am only interested in the relations between man and God,\" set its direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003ebegan when Tom Fallon realized at the age of 84 that he was facing the end of his life, death, silence. In response to this realization he began to create the word creation that would be his last. It is created in literary form of the modern direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith earlier creations \u003cem\u003eThrough A Strangers Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Man on the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNow \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCreation Now With Words \u003c\/em\u003eFallon experimented with literary form in the modern aesthetic direction rather than following traditional prose or poetry forms of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter three years of uncertainty Fallon completed \u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003eas the last words of his insignificant human life on the small planet earth in the great creation opposing his death drawing with his creative self from the great source in creation to present a new creation as the creation itself opposes death with a new creation, new creations. Often he asked himself as he wrote what is creation, why creation, why death for a creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003eis presented in five form sections. Part one, \u003cem\u003ePrelude\u003c\/em\u003e, begins with the creation and is followed by \u003cem\u003eNaked\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePresence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSilence\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eNaked \u003c\/em\u003epresents a news reporter who has lived through the danger and violence of human beings on earth while in part two, \u003cem\u003ePresence\u003c\/em\u003e, a young person communicates tentatively, spiritually, with his creator, his God. In three, \u003cem\u003eImag\u003c\/em\u003eine, the incredibly vital Loreen appears with her beauty, wildness, joy and intelligence leading to the last words in \u003cem\u003eSilence \u003c\/em\u003ewhich seeks an answer to the future of the creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFallon's embrace of literary art experiment has its roots in his exposure to art creators of the past. A first grade teacher quieted his wildness by introducing him to art. Bored in high school he discovered Thomas Craven's \u003cem\u003eMen of Art \u003c\/em\u003ewhich jump started his embrace of the great aesthetic explorations the 19th and 20th Century. The early Maine Writers \u0026amp; Publishers Alliance encouraged his exploration of literary form with complete freedom and the Marianne Moore interview with Donald Hall \u003cem\u003eParis Review \u003c\/em\u003ein 1961 reinforced his embrace of art, literary, form exploration opposing traditional poetry forms of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisits to New York City during the Sixties and Seventies exposed Fallon to the happenings movement and Off Off Broadway theaters such as La Mama ETC with LeRoi Jones and Rosalyn Drexler, and his discovery of modern jazz of artists like Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton as well as experimental classical music of John Cage, Steve Reich and Anton Webern added to writers such as Shakespeare, Keats, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Charles Olson, e. e. cummings, Dick Higgins, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo it is Tom Fallon's \u003cem\u003eImagine \u003c\/em\u003eexists as he faces death, silence, his last words on a very small planet in the great creation: \"Why do I exist? Why does the creation exist?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Fallon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1597132802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597132800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose River Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Tom Fallon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518947307775,"sku":"9781597132800","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f65943c4-1034-497e-ae88-49289e01ae96.jpg?v=1778736263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagine-tom-fallon-9781597132800","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}