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        • Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson: Editorial with Poem
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      • 7 Ways to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion
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      • Tribute to Savannah Author Robert T.S. Mickles Sr.
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        • ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love (Art and Poetry Gift Book)
        • The River of Winged Dreams
        • The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
        • Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player: A Novel by Aberjhani
        • I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
        • Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
        • Buy Books by Aberjhani on Amazon
        • 10th Anniversary of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
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  • As a Poet Thinketh: Poetry by Aberjhani
    • The Bridge of Silver Wings
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao by Aberjhani
    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
  • Articles and Essays
    • Abbreviated Minds in the News for Wreaking Havoc Worldwide editorial by Aberjhani
    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
    • Realms of Emerging Light (Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts Part 2)
    • Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama's Re-Election: Editorial and Poem
    • Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election
    • 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreamers and Nightmares
    • Considering Michael Clarke Duncan: Big Black Man Within A Nonsociopoliticohistorical Context (Editorial with Poem)
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Elemental The Power Of Illuminated Love (ISBN-13 978-0972114271)

$100.00

1st edition collectible art book by artist Luther E. Vann & author Aberjhani. A limited number of copies signed by the artist and author currently available through this site. Autographed copies by the artist also currently available (April 2023) at Sulfur Art Studios in Savannah, Georgia.

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Greeting Flannery O'Connor At The Back Door Of My Mind (autographed collectible)

$25.00

Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind is written in the style of memoir essays for which the author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah has become well known. The literary approach in this collection allows him to share with readers compelling stories in which he explores the impact of works by three authors often associated with his hometown of Savannah, Georgia (USA): James Alan McPherson, John Berendt, and Flannery O’Connor.


Moreover, the covered art, titled "Landscape for Poets Addicted to Love & Justice," is also by the author-artist.


In addition to documenting the influences of O'Connor, McPherson, and Berendt upon himself, Aberjhani examines the cultural biases which have prompted many Americans to protest the same on a variety of platforms. These have ranged from social media, classrooms, and Zoom meetings, to Congressional debates on critical race theory and marches on Washington D.C.

This first Special Edition (ISBN 978-1-71668-481-4) comprises only one third of the author-artist’s creative strategic approach to discussing O'Connor's work during a historical period which has seen cultural progressions considered unthinkable during O’Connor’s lifetime. The other two components of the approach include: works featured in Flannery O'Connor Review 2022; and,  the Flannery O’Connor and Converging Grace art collection.

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The River Of Winged Dreams (Hardback)

$35.00

Celebrated volume of contemporary poems by Aberjhani. Gift book. Special autographed copies available by request through this website.


Table of Contents

  

 

Foreword: Evolution of a Vision, from Songs of the

  Angelic Gaze to The River of Winged Dreams    i  


Introduction to The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009:

  Deliverance in Action     v         

   

Part I: in midnight’s orchard roses blossom

 

Angel of Hope’s Persistent Flight     1

 

Angel of Mercy     3

 

All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry     5

 

The Poet-Angels Who Came to Dinner     7

 

Angel of War    9

 

A Modest Proposal of Alternative Notions      11  

 

Angel of Healing: for the Living, the Dying, and the

  Praying    12

 

Promises of Now      14

 

Angel of Peace      15

  

Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11,

  2001    18

 

There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity     21

 

Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael I    22

Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael II    24

 

 

Part II: a halo like a world

 

Photographed Light of My Grandmother’s Soul    27    

 

Poem Found Running Naked through a Southern

  Rock Garden      29

 

An Angel for New Orleans    31

 

Philosophy of the Midnight Skylark in a Jazz Suite    

  Mode    33


Sounds Scribbled Mixed-Media Platinum at the Jepson Center 3/22/09     34

Sunday Afternoon and the Jazz Angel Cometh      36  

 

Once Was a Singer for God      38  

 

Angel of Friendship’s Enduring Faith      40  

 

A Poet’s Birthday Dance through Fire and Rain      43

 

Angel of Earth Days and Seasons      45 

 

A Poet’s Birthday Dance through Fire and

  Rain 2007      47

 

Part III: earth’s delights and heaven’s tears

 

Angel of Grace      51

 

The River of Winged Dreams    53

A Coat and Shoes for Halloween      55

 

Angel of Christmas Love Shining Bright      57

 

Tybee Island Love Storm      59

 

The Christmas Angel Who Whispered My Name    60

 

A Friend Like a Drunk Poem on New Year’s

  Eve      61  

 

Angel of Valentine Days and Nights      63

 

The Comforter on Your Bed      65

 

Poets of the Angels    67

 

Angel of Gratitude      69

   

 

Part IV: The Bridge of Silver Wings

 

Feathers of Gold, Feathers of Silver     73           

 

Angel of Better Days to Come    79     

 

Midnight Flight of the Poetry Angels    81          

 

What Angels Call “A Poet”    83

                      Part V: Monday burning like oil

Angels and Shakespeare    87    

Acknowledgments      99

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Visions Of A Skylark Dressed In Black HB Gift Edition

$30.00

Hardback gift book of contemporary poetry and fiction by Aberjhani. VISIONS OF A SKYLARK DRESSED IN BLACK is composed of 2 works of short fiction and 52 poems. It was first written and published as the global community not only came to grips with the reality of 9/11 in 2001 but as a number of catastrophes shook humanity to its collective core throughout the first decade of the 21st century.

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Songs From The Black Skylark zPed Music Player

$25.00

Critically acclaimed music fantasy paranormal novel by Aberjhani. Also available in Amazon Kindle eBook format.

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These Black and Blue Red Zone Days (Collectible Special Edition)

$27.00
A special paperback text edition of the BLACK & BLUE LETTERS FROM THE RED ZONE art book. (Cost includes shipping and handling fees.)

Also available on Amazon

In the compelling stories, letters, and poems which comprise These Black and Blue Red Zone Days (ISBN: 979-8-218-17561-0), author and artist Aberjhani presents readers with portraits of what has it has meant to confront, and survive, different facets of the great pandemic of the 21st Century. Through observations which combine the intimacy of journal-writing with the objectivity of journalism and scholarly documentation, the celebrated creative explores how and why COVID-19 and its different variants have represented only one plague which America and the world are still battling. A pandemic of social, racial, and political imbalances and injustices––despite many wishing it otherwise––has proven just as deadly and costly. 




TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction    1
Chapter 1:  Into the Red Zone  7
Chapter 2:  Through a COVID-19 Lens Darkly    25
Chapter 3:  Collective Angst and Private Heavens     43
Chapter 4:  Dreaming at 100.4 Fever Degrees Fahrenheit                                                                 59
Chapter 5:  Black Folks and Existential Proclamations of the   Blues    75
Chapter 6: Quarantine Cubism    95
Chapter 7:  Remembering Red in a Different Way    109


Chapter 8:  Traveling with the Angels    125
Chapter 9:  Stormy Days in Georgia & Washington D.C.    143    
Chapter 10: This Time of Renewal and Re-weaving    159
Epilogue: Seeker with the Inkhorn    185
Acknowledgments     193
Contributing Creatives    196
About the Author    203
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Savannahverse Jazz and Existential Proclamations of the Blues Number 2

$203.00

The price shown here is for a 36"x24" acrylic print available at Fine Art America.com and on Pixels.com at links highlighted below. Prices vary according to product type and size ordered and during special sales events.


SAVANNAHVERSE JAZZ AND EXISTENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS OF THE BLUES NUMBER 2 (2018-2023) is an original mixed-media work of fine art available in multiple formats at the following links as: framed wall art, decorative coffee cups, home décor, puzzles, and more.


The SAVANNAHVERSE JAZZ AND EXISTENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS OF THE BLUES series started with visual creative work begun before the COVID pandemic hit. It developed further as author-artist Aberjhani video-recorded interviews with retired Savannah State University radio programmer Thereon “Ike” Carter for their music heritage project.


“I coined the term SAVANNAHVERSE (unaware at the time a few others on social media had come up with the same) to express the many paradoxical nuances which make the city of Savannah, Georgia, so captivatingly unique,” said Aberjhani. “It is both very old, being one of the United States’ original 13 colonies, and yet very modern with a healthy film industry. It contains a blend of ethnic cultures––African American, Irish, Greek, Latinx, and diverse immigrants–– which all add to its allure. And jazz is one of the city’s major cultural markers.”


Proceeds from sales of Savannahverse Jazz and Existential Proclamations of the Blues Number 2 help provide support for the ongoing Music Heritage Project. (Those who wish to learn more about the project and donate to it can do so at: https://gofund.me/7f16f250  ). The official fundraiser for the project is running from April (which is National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month) until June 2023 (which is African-American Music Month).


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Dreams Of The Immortal City Savannah (ISBN: 9789388125956)

$25.00

Dreams of the Immortal Citi Savannah is a collection of creative nonfiction on cultural arts, family life, and history in Savannah, Georgia. Present stock is available from the publisher, Cyberwit.net, and on Amazon.


The stories in the book range from texts addressing cultural displacement and global warming to those examining the demands of caregiving, the divide between advances in technology and stagnation in social justice, human trafficking/slavery, futurism, family dynamics, the cultural arts, and prophetic inclinations all framed by life unfolding in the famed city of Savannah, Georgia (USA). Titles of the resulting stories are as follows:



Table of Contents


Acknowledgments 

Introduction

Cities of Lights and Shadows and Dreams

A Brazilian Thanksgiving in Georgia

Trees Down Everywhere

Dreams of the Immortal City

The Bridge and the Monument: A Tale of Two Legacies 

Riding the Bus with Man-Boy and Shaniquananda: and Then Not

Monet, Vann, and Gibran at the Telfair Museum of Art

Savannah by the Twenty-first Century Numbers

Appendix A: 2016 Statement on the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge

Appendix B: 2017 Statement on the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge

Appendix C: Savannah Community Marks 100th Anniversary of a Legacy of Knowledge

Appendix D: A Legacy Less Traveled

Appendix E: A Place Called Hitch Village and the Federal Economic Stimulus Package


Looking at the above table of contents with appendices it becomes easy enough to see why Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is described with this tagline: "A memoir of what happens when the heart and soul of a historic city meet the art and purpose of a 21st-century advocate for compassion and social justice."


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Autographed Collectible: Flannery O'Connor Review 2022

$30.00
(Watermark seen on Flannery O’Connor Review 2022 in image does not appear on actual publication. Shipping and handling fees are included in cost of item.)

Flannery O’Connor Review 2022 showcases cover art by Aberjhani titled Sermon in the Valley of Broken Angels and a full section of pages––titled “When Passion and Hunger Collide and Other Works”––of additional original images. The special section also includes the previously unpublished poem, “History and Prophets’ Prerogatives” (now also included in These Black and Blue Red Zone Days).

Aberjhani’s work within the journal represents part of a multi-discipline trilogy exploring different aspects of O’Connor’s literary canon, which is taught in educational institutions around the world. In addition to “When Hunger and Passion Collide and Other Works,” the author-artist’s examinations of O’Connor’s legacy and continuing influence include: the memoir/essay collection Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of Mind, and the art series titled Flannery O’Connor and Converging Grace.

As indicated on the cover of the Review, this volume represents the 20th year anniversary of the publication of the scholarly journal, and, the 50th anniversary of the Flannery O’Connor Bulletin. Equally notable is the fact that Aberjhani is one of very few African-Americans native to Savannah (as O’Connor, white, was herself) to have published work addressing controversial facets of O’Connor’s writings.
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Savannah River ET Bridge BW Black Frame

$165.00
Post Hurricane Matthew print of Savannah Riv Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge. Georgia, USA.
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Savannah River ET Bridge SepiaFrame

$150.00
Collectible Post Hurricane Matthew BW print of Savannah River Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge in Georgia, USA.
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Savannah River Talmadge Bridge Hurricane Matthew Glossy

$75.00
Mounted 15x20 glossy of Savannah River ET Bridge After Hurricane Matthew. By Aberjhani.

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  • Bright Skylark Literary Productions Sitemap
  • Author Statement
    • Blog: Visionary Vibes >
      • Aberjhani - Author Biography
      • Bright Skylark News Notes
      • Blog: Cultural Arts Reviews and Remembrances
      • Blog: Sonic Delight Music Reviews >
        • Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson: Editorial with Poem
      • Shifting Points of View and the Massacre in Charleston, South Carolina (USA) >
        • Author-Poet Aberjhani in the News
      • 7 Ways to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion
    • Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind >
      • Tribute to Savannah Author Robert T.S. Mickles Sr.
    • Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah >
      • Podcast Prospects 504
      • More Books by Aberjhani >
        • Readers & Reviewers on the Writings of Aberjhani
        • Checking in at Goodreads
        • Editing Credits
        • ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love (Art and Poetry Gift Book)
        • The River of Winged Dreams
        • The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
        • Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player: A Novel by Aberjhani
        • I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
        • Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
        • Buy Books by Aberjhani on Amazon
        • 10th Anniversary of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
  • AI Literary Chat Salon
  • Carousel of Sustainable Compassion
  • Working Scribe Carousel Number 2
    • Awards & Honors
    • My LinkedIn Portfolio Sampler
    • Pop Icon Michael Jackson in Life & Legend
    • Creative Thinkers International
  • Art and Poster Store
    • Blog: Silk-Featherbrush Art and Style
    • Postered Poetics
    • Your Introduction to Original Silk-Featherbrush Art & Style
  • Choose a Cultural Arts Heritage Project to Support
  • Working Scribe Image Carousel 2
  • About Bright Skylark Literary Productions
    • Bright Skylark Values and Motto
  • Famous Quotes of Note
    • Pinterest Page of Quotations
  • Charter for a More Compassionate World
  • As a Poet Thinketh: Poetry by Aberjhani
    • The Bridge of Silver Wings
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao by Aberjhani
    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
  • Articles and Essays
    • Abbreviated Minds in the News for Wreaking Havoc Worldwide editorial by Aberjhani
    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
    • Realms of Emerging Light (Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts Part 2)
    • Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama's Re-Election: Editorial and Poem
    • Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election
    • 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreamers and Nightmares
    • Considering Michael Clarke Duncan: Big Black Man Within A Nonsociopoliticohistorical Context (Editorial with Poem)
  • Video Pen & Ink
  • Links and Connections
    • Aberjhani's Guerrilla Decontextualization
  • Contact the Author
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