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A Poet's Kingdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

A Poet's Kingdom

A Poet's Kingdom A kingdom of words that serves the needs of its poetry citizens, A Poet's Kingdom is a head and heart rainbow of existence: happiness, sadness, pride, hope and displeasure, regret and perspective, grief and joy, the simple thankfulness of God, nature, and life; all are to be found in this new collection. Poet, writer, thinker, Joseph P. Policape was born in Haiti and arrived on these shores in the early 1980s. His higher education took place in Massachusetts with focus on business, Computer Technology, and theology, but the love of poetry had always been a permanent love. Author of three poetry collections, a short story book and a novel, Policape will also be publishing this year, a major work on his native country: A BEAUTIFUL AGONY: VISIONARIES AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN HAITIAN HISTORY. The courage of political and existential freedom is the raison d'tre of this new collection.

Interpretations of Romance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Interpretations of Romance

This book is sensational, full of enjoyment and sense of beauty. Poems such as I'm Free All of a Sudden, Baby You Set Me Free, Your Sweet Voice, I Promise, and Give Me a Little Kiss on Christmas can be made into love songs and can be read at any occasion to awaken the highest emotion. Readers of all ages will capture the sense of real love. Everyone should read this book to find and experience real love. After reading this wonderful book, look out for Mr. Policape's next book, A Spiritual Journey.

The Gift of Misfortune
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Gift of Misfortune

Summary T HE GIFT OF MISFORTUNE CHRONICLES THE STORY OF A YOUNG HAITIAN IMMIGRANT TORN BETWEEN HIS NATIVE LAND, WHICH HE LOVES UNCONDITIONALLY, AND AN ADOPTED COUNTRY THAT HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH AT FIRST SIGHT. However, once he reluctantly arrives in his new country, in spite of himself, he loves it, but three major obstacles surface that alter his attitudes and eventually his life: his natural kinship with the Christian notion of poverty and wealth; his encounter with his adopted father/friend, Thomas, who is very critical of America; and the most important, the obstacle that makes him change his attitude about American culture and democracyhis malevolent and greedy wife, Monica. Politics, r...

Grandma Josefina and the Heroic Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 69

Grandma Josefina and the Heroic Boy

A story of innocence and intrigue about a beautiful, selfish grandmother bent upon destroying her grandson who possesses remarkable, spiritual powers that will expose her cherished secret in a small, quiet town in southern Haiti. What happens when a community of witches led by Josefina Bergin Cadet confronts an army of one, uncompromising Christian boy child, Jaclyn Flaubert. Grandma Josefina and the Heroic Boy are the explosive results of this great spiritual warfare that takes place in the environs of Bainet, Haiti.

Voodoo and Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 121

Voodoo and Christianity

Tell our stories, my child. It was his mothers last wish. Now, three years after her death, he gathers the stories that changed his life forever. Author Joseph P. Policape introduces us to the man responsible for recording these stories of faiths victory in his new book entitled Voodoo and Christianity: Confrontations between Good and Evil. Marios flooded memories bring him back to the time of distant wounds. He had witnessed the town of Bainet suffering during its most treacherous times. Once, the whole town was slaved by the demonic voodoo spirit until a small band of Protestants started a war against them. His own family had been torn apart by this spiritual war; Marios mother had been a ...

A Spiritual Journey
  • Language: en

A Spiritual Journey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-04
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  • Publisher: Xlibris

This book is volume one of a series of spiritual poems written by Joseph P. Policape. In this spiritual poetry book Joseph P. Policape has proven the power of God in his testimonial poems. This book is a good tool for every reader. One can sense the power of God when reading poems such as: God's Laws, the Guardian Angels, The world needs one thing and Daniel danced in the Lion's Den. After reading these poems the readers will feel closer to God and will find a reason to walk with God. There are poems for every spiritual occasion in this book. Many young men women and people of all ages will capture the sense of real love. Every age group is recommended to read this book. One would find and experience a sense of an spiritual journey with God and after reading this wonderful book, look for Mr. Policape next books, "My Life Journey and Journey of Romance.

Where Do They Bury the Dead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Where Do They Bury the Dead

The protagonist, Alvarez, of Where Do They Bury the Dead, is a young man who became a national hero and the center of a growing massive movement against the systematic and brutal repression of the Haitian people. As a young man from the wealthier classes, he was to follow the trajectory of achieving professional status as a doctor like his parents and his two brothers. Fate, injustice, and a personal decision changed all that. The government had begun a renewed aggressive silent campaign against Haitians of all classes and in particular had targeted Alvarez’s class, many of them young people, who were speaking up against the repression. Some of these protesters were friends of Alvarez and ...

The Triumph of Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

The Triumph of Christianity

“Tell our stories, my child.” It was his mother’s last wish. Now, three years after her death, he gathers the stories that changed his life forever. Author Joseph P. Policape introduces us to the man responsible for recording these stories of faith’s victory in his new book entitled Voodoo and Christianity: Confrontations between Good and Evil. Mario’s flooded memories bring him back to the time of distant wounds. He had witnessed the town of Bainet’s suffering during its most treacherous times. Once, the whole town was enslaved by the demonic vodou spirits until a small band of Protestants started a war against them. His own family had been torn apart by this spiritual war. Mari...

A Beautiful Agony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

A Beautiful Agony

This is a book that unfolds the history of the world’s first black republic through the art of poetry. Yes, the first black republic on Earth started in the Americas! Beautiful Agony is a collection of poetic snapshots of the heroes and heroines who made Haiti possible as a nation and trekked the eternal struggle to keep Haiti’s freedom soul. Do you love poetry? Do you love wordplay? Do you love sophisticated prose? Then Beautiful Agony: Visionaries and Freedom Fighters in Haitian History is for you. These poems serve a double mission: personal pleasure and historical recognition of people and a land and the impressive odds against its existence and the triumphant glow of its survival. W...

The Sycamore Seed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

The Sycamore Seed

The author, seen here at Lucerne while vacationing in the Bernese Oberland, has spent his main career in education. His published writings include four collections of poetry, some serial fiction, travel journalism and a travel memoir, South of Lapland, relating impressions of Northern Finland. He draws on his extensive travels in Europe as background for this intriguing spy-detective novel set aboard a Danube River cruise during the Communist era, evoking the characteristic period atmosphere of Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest. Married, with three grown children, he is currently living in New England.