jon m obermeyer (14 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The coastal California town of Santa Barbara has unique character and is full of unique characters. Ross MacDonald, Sue Grafton and T.C. Boyle put the town on the literary map, but there's more to the place than a quick weekend getaway for visitors from Encino or Evansville. These poems capture the spiritual and lyrical essence of a place usually known for celebrity sightings and soap operas. Delving deeper than mere nostalgia, ranging wider than tourist guide, with a quirky unique take on a unique place.18 of these poems previously appeared Obermeyer's debut collection "The Reassurance of Ghosts" in 2016. Several poems had been published in literary journals including "1957" which first appeared in Spectrum (UCSB) in 1982 and in the 60th Anniversary Edition of Spectrum in 2017. While writing his Santa Barbara memoir 'It Happens That Fast" during the summer of 2017, the author found himself tapping into a rich vein of lyric material, and he ended up writing 24 new poems with a South Coast setting and vibe. Set in iconic Santa Barbara locations like More Mesa, Hilda Ray Park, Hammond's Reef, Maria Ignacio Creek and the Jesusita Trail in San Roque, Obermeyer renders a native's unique soundscape and image tapestry. The book's title "Salsipedes" ("Leave if you can") refers to an infamous East Santa Barbara street known historically for a swampy traveling, and as well as Obermeyer's departure in 1983 to live and write 2,600 miles away in North Carolina. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What is it to write a poem, a short story or a full-blown novel? What degree of solitude is required to push past the forces that will resist your efforts? How do you even begin to write about a particular place or a person or an idea in a clear and compelling way, that grabs the attention of a reader, a publisher or your Aunt Sophie? Jon Obermeyer has been writing creatively for 40 years and professionally for over 15 years, starting with the Ringling Bros. circus program. Told uniquely from a poet's point of view, Myriad is your outfitter's guide to exploring a writing life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "The Low Wire: Meditations on Loss and Creative Restoration" is a survival manual for the modern age. Combining memoir, essays and poems, these pieces introduce (and suggest) bringing a new level of insight to counteract overwhelming situations, the essential "footings" to be poured for renewal and creativity. As author John Miller writes in the Foreword: "Low comes when all of your big ideas and master plans and deep dreams just don't happen. Here's your VIP pass good for one free cocktail at the The Low Club, where you have nothing left to offer. This book says humility is a gift and that searing pain teaches way more than glorious victory." Live long enough and you will fail and you will fall, hard. You're going to get cancer, divorce, or lose a child or alienate your adult children. Or have a debilitating stroke, like the author experienced in the fall of 2015.Some days you can't even get up out of bed. Some days you're so beaten down and low-affect, you're barely there. You wander as a ghost. Other days, you flood every conversation with too much intensity, and alienate your friends.So, how do you get back on your feet and find new ways to balance? Being resilient isn't always the best answer. Sometimes you need to shatter completely.When is it okay to be divorced, bankrupt, bereaved and broke?When is "nothing" a great hand?When is third place billing on the concert poster just fine?When are those times when you should lay low and not rush too quickly back to your high-wire act? The author used to write the Ringling Brothers annual circus program, and in 2002 he met Bello Nock, a seventh generation circus performer in the Ringling Brothers Red Unit, a daredevil clown and a high-wire trapeze artist. He practices and perfects every maneuver of his high-wire act on a "low wire" cable that is rigged only 18 inches off the ground. An apt metaphor for starting over safely. This book is about learing to live on that Low Wire. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. David Sedaris wrote, "A good short story should take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit." Sixteen stories are included in Jon Obermeyer's second collection of short fiction. Both cautionary and comic, these post-2008 financial meltdown tales feature characters who are caught off guard, in their personal lives and in financial status. A divorced man finds witnessing the aftermath of a horrific highway accident strangely purifying. A retired auto inspection mechanic finds himself kicked out of an art crawl open house, and it triggers flashback to an incident on a high school football field. A homeowner and father worries that the ex-con handyman fixing his termite-damaged subflooring might also be a suspect in a local murder. Two couples, one wealthy, the other struggling financially, vacation together in Italy, as one marriage disintegrates and the other relationship is strangely affirmed. A woman is forced to choose a way to assuage the hurt of an absent boyfriend over a holiday weekend, possibly reuniting with a former finance. An unemployed poet decides to open a retail store devoted solely to one book, his 400-page opus about the working man. The author in his preface writes: "For two years in the early part of this century, I wrote the annual circus program for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. I ventured each December to Ringling "Winter Quarters" at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, and spent three weeks interviewing the performers and watching the new acts in rehearsal. "To make the circus interesting for the 12-year-old boys who were the target audience for the book, we planned a series of graphics alongside the text. These visual, small nuggets based on the science behind the circus, comprised what my editor John Miller called our "Dorling-Kindersley" approach. "That's when I first learned the difference between Centripetal Force (center seeking) and Centrifugal Force (center fleeing). The Ringling equestrian act, circa 2002, worked on the defying the principle of Centrifugal Force, keeping the horses contained the small ring as they spun around it at fast speed. This act was known as "Little and Big," because horses and small dogs were involved. "So, what keeps us from flying off the surface of our spinning planet into Deep Space? It's gravity mostly, but I might argue there's a bit of centripetal force at work, a subtler form of grounding. What keeps us from flying off the proverbial handle? What distinguishes that line between sane and in-sane? "Fiction, like poetry, keeps us from becoming scatterlings. It's my job as a kind of Ringmaster, the professional artist, to salvage these little events that might have big import when laid out in a narrative arc; Little and Big. I'm going to take the tiny things that have happened to me, or something I've heard about from others or in a public forum, and whip them into an enjoyable froth, with some dialogue and description." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Santa Barbara, CA (pop. 92,000) is known for producing a wide variety of literary talent, notably Ross MacDonald, Sue Grafton, John Sanford and T.C. Boyle. Memoirs like "Hannibal by the Sea" and "Montecito Boy" speak to growing up in the early 20th century. Christopher Buckley has written an excellent Santa Barbara memoir "Cruising State" yet not much has been written about growing up in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 1970's, particularly the more suburban provincial Goleta Valley, west of town along Highway 101. Jon Obermeyer spent the summer of 2017 going down the "worm holes" of memory each day, spelunking in the caves of his Santa Barbara childhood (Goleta and Montecito) and his early adult years living off Micheltorena Street. Jon observes, "The challenge of memoir is avoiding a tepid, shallow Sears Roebuck catalogue of artifacts and trivia and examining thoughtfully why and how these events made me the person I became." He adds, for almost four decades, my poems (some published) have covered much of this territory, yet it's been enjoyable to work in the flexibility of a prose narrative." A stroke survivor, Jon took up the memoir genre in 2016 as part of a therapy assignment, writing a cradle-to-grave memoir in early 2017. He found the Santa Barbara sections more compelling and entertaining, and decided to focus on the first 25 years of life He wanted to explore how a childhood in Santa Barbara was a formative and distinct experience. This eclectic memoir draws on the fields of popular music, natural history, biology, geology, psychology, neurobiology, California history, sports (surfing, hiking), economics, linguistics and etymology, literature and examines themes like childhood trauma, depression, creative expression and spirituality. The book also features a unique "Mix Tape" compilation of "A side" and "B side" popular music from the years 1958-1983 and a Santa Barbara literary bibliography titled "'D'" is For Dectective Fiction." Jon moved from Santa Barbara in 1983. With the exception of three years living and working in San Francisco recently, he has lived on the East Coast for the past thirty years. Writing from a geographical distance, might be an advantage, he guesses. "I'm not there everyday, driving on Shoreline Drive or Hollister or A.P.S. I have to pull this out of my brain." Jon no longer has immediate family living in Santa Barbara, although his cousin and uncle live in Ventura. Due to multiple cross-country moves, he has misplaced most of his family photographs and his "Olive and Gold" S.B.H.S. yearbooks from 1974-76. Jon uses topical prompts to begin and develop each chapter. He also credits two Santa Barbara Facebook groups for inspiration and obscure fact checking. For example, who was the Santa Barbara High teacher (and assistant football coach) who wore a toga in Roman History class? Answer: Mr. Everett. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.