New Poems Share Mysteries Unique to Love: The Seeker Is The Sought Published by Outskirts Press
San Francisco, CA, January 22, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published The Seeker Is The Sought: Poems 1970 - 2010 by Marvin Richard Montney. The author's most recent book to date is a 6 x 9 paperback in the poetry category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/marvinrichardmontney was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
By including the two poems “Song of Sophroniscus’ Son” and “Lynne” within his collection among others of comparable power, this poet entices readers into a world where they can freshly experience lyrical initiations into certain mysteries, certain “realms not yet named/not shown/calculated endeavor,” and certain “joys and empowerments,” that only lovers share.
Moving first through a cluster of poems in Part I entitled “The Seeker,” then through another in a second Part, “The Sought,” readers come to uncover an articulated inwardness during their passage through the third and final cluster in Part III, “The Found,” that will leave them transformed.
Talisman for this journey of initiation is Michael Murphy’s (The Future of The Body (1992), p. 218) hypothesis, which the poet quotes in his Acknowledgments: “It is conceivable that various joys and empowerments relayed from...lover to lover...involve processes and structures that neither science nor religion has adequately described.”
Poetry, this poet claims, gives insight into these reflexive processes and structures known to lovers alone. Montney’s readers, of course, will decide for themselves whether or not, in proving his intriguing claim, the poet succeeds.
80 pages in length, The Seeker Is The Sought: Poems 1970 - 2010 is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the poetry category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, The Seeker Is The Sought: meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95.
Additionally, The Seeker Is The Sought: can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432702267
Format: 6 x 9 paperback white
SRP: $15.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/marvinrichardmontney.
About the author:
Marvin Richard Montney is a prize-winning American poet, novelist, humorous memorist, playwright, award-winning humorous speaker, published writer and philosopher currently living and writing in California. As instructor in philosophy, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois, and graduate teaching assistant in Western and Asian Philosophy, University of Hawaii-Manoa, he taught some Philosophy of India, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and Confucius, as well as Western philosophers.
Born in Leavenworth, Washington of third-generation, Anglo-Saxon-French-American descent, migrant farm worker parents, his father eventually becoming a roofer and later owner-operator of his own roofing company. Marvin Richard Montney was raised in Portland, Oregon. Graduating Cleveland High School as newspaper co-editor, co-valedictorian, and student body president, he ranked nineteenth out of the 116 full-time male students of his Whitman College freshman class, and attended Reed College (B.A., Western Philosophy), University of Chicago (A.M., Committee on Ideas and Methods, Western and Philosophy of India specialty), and University of Hawaii (Ph.D./A.B.D./area exam, Western and Comparative Indian Philosophy). He then visited ten weeks in Shinjukuku district, Tokyo, Japan.
With his high school tennis partner, he was Runners-Up Doubles Champion for the State of Oregon. The Bureau of State Audits deemed him eligible, among 4,546 out of 24,915, to enter the supplemental application phase of Californians called to serve on the nation’s first Citizens’ Redistricting Commission. On June 11, 2010 it notified him he will not proceed to the next selection phase, although it will retain his application materials for ten years, as required by the Voters’ First Act. “If the bureau is called upon”, it wrote him, “to fill a commission vacancy in the future, the bureau must attempt to fill [it] with prior applicants. Thus, unless you have a conflict of interest that prohibits you from serving, there is a possibility that you may be called upon to serve....”
His poem “Lynne” was accepted January 6, 2006 by editor Linda Erickson of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, for publication in a broadside series or in an upcoming issue of the magazine, Poetry Harbor. With his book of poetry The Seeker Is The Sought now published, he is finishing a novel. His web site is www.outskirtspress.com/marvinrichardmontney.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
By including the two poems “Song of Sophroniscus’ Son” and “Lynne” within his collection among others of comparable power, this poet entices readers into a world where they can freshly experience lyrical initiations into certain mysteries, certain “realms not yet named/not shown/calculated endeavor,” and certain “joys and empowerments,” that only lovers share.
Moving first through a cluster of poems in Part I entitled “The Seeker,” then through another in a second Part, “The Sought,” readers come to uncover an articulated inwardness during their passage through the third and final cluster in Part III, “The Found,” that will leave them transformed.
Talisman for this journey of initiation is Michael Murphy’s (The Future of The Body (1992), p. 218) hypothesis, which the poet quotes in his Acknowledgments: “It is conceivable that various joys and empowerments relayed from...lover to lover...involve processes and structures that neither science nor religion has adequately described.”
Poetry, this poet claims, gives insight into these reflexive processes and structures known to lovers alone. Montney’s readers, of course, will decide for themselves whether or not, in proving his intriguing claim, the poet succeeds.
80 pages in length, The Seeker Is The Sought: Poems 1970 - 2010 is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the poetry category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, The Seeker Is The Sought: meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95.
Additionally, The Seeker Is The Sought: can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432702267
Format: 6 x 9 paperback white
SRP: $15.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/marvinrichardmontney.
About the author:
Marvin Richard Montney is a prize-winning American poet, novelist, humorous memorist, playwright, award-winning humorous speaker, published writer and philosopher currently living and writing in California. As instructor in philosophy, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois, and graduate teaching assistant in Western and Asian Philosophy, University of Hawaii-Manoa, he taught some Philosophy of India, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and Confucius, as well as Western philosophers.
Born in Leavenworth, Washington of third-generation, Anglo-Saxon-French-American descent, migrant farm worker parents, his father eventually becoming a roofer and later owner-operator of his own roofing company. Marvin Richard Montney was raised in Portland, Oregon. Graduating Cleveland High School as newspaper co-editor, co-valedictorian, and student body president, he ranked nineteenth out of the 116 full-time male students of his Whitman College freshman class, and attended Reed College (B.A., Western Philosophy), University of Chicago (A.M., Committee on Ideas and Methods, Western and Philosophy of India specialty), and University of Hawaii (Ph.D./A.B.D./area exam, Western and Comparative Indian Philosophy). He then visited ten weeks in Shinjukuku district, Tokyo, Japan.
With his high school tennis partner, he was Runners-Up Doubles Champion for the State of Oregon. The Bureau of State Audits deemed him eligible, among 4,546 out of 24,915, to enter the supplemental application phase of Californians called to serve on the nation’s first Citizens’ Redistricting Commission. On June 11, 2010 it notified him he will not proceed to the next selection phase, although it will retain his application materials for ten years, as required by the Voters’ First Act. “If the bureau is called upon”, it wrote him, “to fill a commission vacancy in the future, the bureau must attempt to fill [it] with prior applicants. Thus, unless you have a conflict of interest that prohibits you from serving, there is a possibility that you may be called upon to serve....”
His poem “Lynne” was accepted January 6, 2006 by editor Linda Erickson of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, for publication in a broadside series or in an upcoming issue of the magazine, Poetry Harbor. With his book of poetry The Seeker Is The Sought now published, he is finishing a novel. His web site is www.outskirtspress.com/marvinrichardmontney.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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