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The Rigged Universe
Labriola's poems offer "cosmic therapy"-a lesson in learning to live with light and happiness.
Jealousy
"The Jealous Shoemaker" and "Numbered Days" are envy-tainted tales that deal with jealously guarded secrets of the past. The distant past has become a lost paradise for old men such as Pietro d'Arborio and Bliss (Dodo) Bane. Hell-bent on telling their versions of the truth, they also bear witness to life's stunning surprises, twisted ironies, dark enchantments, and puzzling mysteries. In a bewildering world, tainted by violence, guilt, jealousy, and revenge, they try to outface time's shocks, and get even with their tormentors and adversaries. Haunted, how can they prevail against past rejection, absurdity and horror? For these old men, is the past just baggage? Or is it never over? If they look for closure, will they be relieved to find it? The two tales in Jealousy link the shadows of the vanishing world with the realities of the here-and-now.
An Englishman in Italian
What if you woke up one day to find that you were famous? Lord Byron wrote that he woke up one day to find that he was famous. Centuries before, Will Shakespeare woke up to the dawning of his Shakespearean fame. An Englishman in Italian deals with the art of striving for success, the kind of success that leads to worldwide fame, and the perpetual longing for artistic immortality. But against the ambition of making it in the arts, the power of love and the force of death array themselves against the striving artists. The push and the pull of desire and pleasure in love and art battle against their enemies: time, failure, envy, spite, malice, and what Shakespeare calls the serpent's tongue. Armed with talent, how will the man from Stratford-upon-Avon endure life's natural shocks in order to prevail against time? Will Shakespeare endeavours through his passion, poetry and plays to triumph in the London scene and become a gentleman. John Florio tells the tale of Shakespeare's dark romance with a certain Dark Lady and his enduring love affair with the Beauty of Words. The Bard wakes up one day to find he is famous. 2014 was the 450th Anniversary of the Bard's birth.
Birds and Arrows
Birds and Arrows is a poetry collection centering on the spirituality of desire. As verbal designs, these poems reflect the shape and movement of birds and arrows in flight. Each sequence in counterpoint traces the arc of a journey, a quest with joys and sorrows, a sense of delight, and feelings of grief. The quester is an archer contending with the mystifying forces of life and love. Faced with the bewildering and mysterious aspects of the world, the archer yearns for the visible and the divine. The road leads to an apprehension of a love greater than the one once imagined. The archer yearns for the perfect arrow that will hit the target of understanding. The seeker longs to find the self-surrendering of love as a way forward in the world. The mystic archer is wounded in battle in the face of life's dangers, but still strives for mystical experiences in the real world. The poems in Birds and Arrows aim at such a target in the belief that the quest is real and true. Voices fly past, like arrows and birds in flight, and the reader senses their whirring sound, their call and cry.
Love's Cure
Anton Sergeevich Antonov and his mamochka, Zoya Ivanovna Antonov, are under secret police surveillance for suspected subversive activities. He is a retired writer who believes he lives an inverted life, like a character out of Gogol. His farcical inversion makes him feel that he has been cured of any interest in the illness of life. He now claims he wants a cure for his obsession with the sickness of love. What are these things called life and love, but irremediable diseases, especially as he grows older? When at last he turns 40, his birthday wish is that this birthday be his last. He agrees with Dostoyevsky in his Notes from Underground on the question of aging: it is bad manners to live b...
The Blessing of the Bikes & Other Life-Cycles
The Blessing of the Bikes & Other LifeCycles is a themed collection in three parts that catalogues and values urban life. It chronicles the way we imagine and reimagine the city. In so doing, the poems become urban praise songs. What would we miss if it were all to go missing? Even if we left the place behind for new cities (or the wilderness), what would always remain dear to us? What would our lives be without the places we have known, including public and private spaces? These poems measure and chart the value of our neighbourhoods and the spirit of the city that we wish to preserve. By meditating on our storied past, the poems in The Bless of the Bikes & Other LifeCycles measure and chart the value of where we live and consider pathways to the city’s future.
Sun Dogs
These poems fly from Earth to Jupiter and back, but one can feel the sweat on the skin for the whole trip. Lenses, including those of our eyes, let the sky-watcher chart the trip of the time-traveler from beginning to end. We are all star-children, born into the universe, where we must wander from place to place and time to time in search of our own bliss. The trip also takes us to “inner space.” In three parts, Sun Dogs, as a themed collection, attempts to capture moments of wonder, loss and healing: 1. Planetarium, 2. Jealous Planet, and 3. Cosmic Therapies. The poems speak of the human journey – the odyssey of experience in a galaxy filled with legends and natural phenomena. Yet, the collection promises “cosmic therapy” – a time for something great.
The Lover and Interpreter of Human Oddities
In order to expose his clients' life lies, Dr. Clive Wango, real estate tycoon and self-styled psychotherapist, hosts exotic Truth Parties at his multi-million-dollar mansion. Once he gets people in conflict there, he spares no expense to free them from the tales they tell themselves to justify wrongdoing. But at his next Truth Party, will he be able to confront the malice of the criminal mind? Are some human oddities simply beyond his benevolence? Do some life stories disastrously defy interpretation? With his moral passion and an acute sense of responsibility, Dr. Clive Wango must live or die in his needful obligation to find out.
The Blessing of the Bikes & Other Life-Cycles
Anthony Labriola received the Toronto Arts Council Grant in 2014 to write this poetic collection, which explores city life, and chronicles lives lived from childhood to old age. Throughout, the poems imagine and re-imagine urban living. The poems are praise songs for city life. What would we miss if it were all to go missing? Even if we left the place behind for new cities (or even the wilds), what would always remain dear to us? What would our lives be without the places we have known, including public and private spaces? This approach should lead to an appreciation of the true worth of urban life.
The Lonely Barber
"The Lonely Barber" is an urban love story, a dark romance. On the cusp of making business plans for the future, a man nicknamed Lonely clashes with the past. Despite hostility, menace and violence, he seeks his bliss in the city. Love makes its erotic appearance in his life. Unlooked for, the love of his life makes her splashy entrance in the big city. Strapped together in pursuit of their love-dream, they come under the fast-paced and lunatic influence of the city's unique beauty. By means of cooperation and collaboration, they surrender to the city's passionate and noisy love for them. The Lonely Barber, as he discovers the true worth of city life through love and work, realizes that he is ?lonely? no more.
