Spirit Garden: Poems

On SPIRIT GARDEN: ?In Spirit Garden, poet-scholar-playwright Joe Martin sings ecstatically of the One, the hidden integrity of opposites & the living mystery of existence. He not only fuses Sufi, Buddhist & Jewish paths in a troubadour?s transcendence both timeless & time-bound, his thirty poems share the page with Enrique Castanon?s haunting figures which shift foreground and background to meta-illustrate the gestalt of Martin?s vision.? ?Kirpal Gordon, author, Giant Steps Press blog On FOREIGNERS: "[An] absurdist mind grenade... Joe Martin's first novel paints this neo-European shadow landscape with panache ? a gifted American writer." ?Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle On RUMI?S MATHNAVI: A Stage Adaptation ?Absolutely remarkable and memorable ? lifting the veils one after another.? ?Lida Saeedian, co-translator of The Pocket Rumi On PARABOLA: SHORTER FICTIONS ?...through the tightly structured geometry of this metaphorically rich [work is a] recognition of the search we undertake to fix a place for ourselves ? and try to make sense of a confusing, alienating and often combative world.? ?Cheryl Pallant, High Performance