Bøger af Carl Scott Harker

For Cat Lovers Everywhere: A new book of cat poems with cat art has arrived, written by the author of "Poems by my Cat." This book contains a collection of 24 poster poems featuring fine art illustrations of cats. Each poster, first designed to be printed individually with their own specific look, combines a piece of cat art with an original poem inspired by each cat or cats presented. "This was a work of love - how could it not be? I had been blessed with a project to write about cats! The poems delve into the character of cats and tell stories revolving around cats, while still touching upon the human condition. And in some poems, a cat seems to speak directly from the art itself. "It is hoped cat lovers will be delighted with my poetry, but I know they will be charmed with the art. Here you will find the whimsical, anthropomorphic cat art of Louis Wain as well as more realistic portrayals of our feline friends. "So come and meet these cats and discover what fanciful feline dreams they stirred to life." - Carl Scott Harker The artists included in this book of feline poems are: Louis Wain, Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, Cecil Aldin, Sir John Tenniel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Emile Munier, Abraham Teniers, Bruno Liljefors, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Henri Rousseau, Katsushika Hokusai and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

When you live in material poverty, but are awash in spiritual wealth... that is what the poems in this book are about. Have you ever been poor? Perhaps, you were poor when young or are now old and poor or were poor sometime inbetween. These poems are for you. Your struggles, like my own, are pretty much everyone's. And if you have never been poor? Then you should read these poems, too. It will round off your education. The poetry in this book is based on my personal life, my observations of others and of observations of the world at large. I think it is important to understand how we see ourselves, more so, than how we are reflected in others' eyes. This subject of personal poverty amongst spiritual wealth is explored through serious poems and light poems. Note that most poems have a touch of optimism - as that is whom I am. I am more concerned with the inner person - that I am and that you are. These poems are my way of talking with you.

Over the last few years, I, the author of this work, have published several books of poetry written for a general audience. In reviewing those previous books, I realized many of my poems are ones I would have enjoyed finding when I was ten or so. "The Hedgehog" is a collection of those poems just right for reading by a younger audience - children ten years and older. This book contains silly poems such as "What Does A Spider Mean Within My Dream?" and "The Cat and the Day of the Special Fog" and more serious poems like "The Little Girl with Dyslexia" and "White Snow Like Fur Covers a Tree in Yosemite." Some might think that reading poetry is too challenging. But good poems provide clues to their meaning and incentives to read one line and then the next and then the next... And when you have reached the last line they provide a reward - which may be laughter, or wisdom, or a story, or a better understanding of yourself, and sometimes all of the above. The poems in this book are good poems - and I think children will have fun reading them!

Sherlock Holmes often visited the European continent in the pursuit of solving the cases brought to him at 221B Baker Street. Certainly, it is possible that the great detective crossed paths with the artist Vincent Van Gogh.In this story, in free verse form, Holmes tells Watson of his meetings with both Theo and Vincent Van Gogh and solves a few mysteries along the way.The genesis of this Sherlock Holmes story came from a project to write poems inspired by the works of Vincent Van Gogh. "The Mad Artist" was the seventeenth such poem to be written. All of the Van Gogh inspired poems can be found in the poet's book, "The Van Gogh Poems and Other Poetry."Another fine story written in free verse available on Amazon by Carl Scott Harker is "Frankenstein's Monster in Oz."

This book contains over one hundred of the best poems to read during the Christmas Season. These classic poems describe Christmases from long ago before there were cell phones and computers. But celebrating Christmas then is still like celebrating Christmas now. Some of the poems in this book will take you back to the story of the first Christmas. Some will describe how common folk and families celebrated Christmas touching on traditions that are still common today. Other verses go to the heart of the meaning of the Holiday. Some poems present a gentle parody of Christmas traditions, while others will remind you of your own personal Christmas memories. You will find humor and fun, wisdom and beauty, here. Which makes these classic poems as relevant today as they were when first written.When you get this book, read these poems out loud to yourself and share them with your family and friends. Have your children pick out a poem or two to read to the family on Christmas Eve. You are certain to find some of your favorite Christmas poems, here, as well as new poems to surprise and delight you.

I wrote the Trump poems in this book, much as do any of my work. My muse would absorb the events of my day and then force me to write what was most necessary to express. And while, Trump's narcissism caused him to be in our faces constantly, I could not always withstand the pain he was causing and sometimes hid away. Thankfully, I found other more important topics to write about during those moments. Still, I had to write about his evil. And so you have this gathering of what I consider to be my Trump poems, which were originally scattered within three other books of my poetry.To me, Trump is a man of glass, which so easily allows one to peer into the dark core of his heart. How clearly I could see that he did not care about anyone, but himself. His actions and words expressed so loudly that he was capable of any injury to others, as long as it made himself feel bigger.How I wondered, that over these four years, so many were blind to the obvious dangers of this man. The answer is found in some type of malignant super charisma that Trump has. Of course, Republicans were delighted to use him in their pursuit of riches, power and the control over women, the poor & non-white people. Supported by their political propaganda machine, Trump was able to fool most of the people too much of the time.The poems in this book, were my cries in the wilderness from early 2017 up to the election of 2020. I offer them now as an indictment of Trump's character and as a warning that we must never allow such a person to ever again, be in reach of the levers of power.

Here is a gallery of fifty beautiful works of art that celebrates the naked human form (forty-nine female nudes and one specific male nude), ready for your enjoyment.This is my second collection of classic fine art nudes which show both the beauty of the human body and the talent and creativity of great artists of our past.Some of the names of the painters presented in this book will be familiar to you. But you are sure to be delighted, as well, by the work of those artists whose names are new to you.Throughout human history, artists have used naked figures of women and men to reflect the times they live in as well as to showcase their own personal style of painting. These artisans take something so well known and so well loved as a nude woman or man and use the inherent beauty of the subject to stretch the concept of art.The artists included in this book are: Albert Joseph Pénot, Edgar Degas, William Merritt Chase, George Barbier, Luis Ricardo Falero, Peter Paul Rubens, Edvard Munch, Kenyon Cox, Gaston Brussiere, Gustav Klimt, Ito Shinsui, Capelari Fritz, Richard Gersti, John Webber, Cornelis Van Haarlem, Giorgio De Chirico. Thomas Rowlandson, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Ishikawa, John Collier, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Warwick Goible, Jean-Léon Gérôme, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Delphin Enjolras, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Qui Ying, Paul Ranson, Albrecht Durer, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Vladimir Baranov Rossine, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Tsugouharu Foujita, Childe Hassam, Egon Schiele, Hans Zatzka, Mariano Fortuny, Nakamura Tsune, Hans Hassenteufel, Hendrick Goltzius, CW Eckersberg, August Macke and Paul Gauguin.

Here is a collection of 46 paintings and drawings by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. This is a sampling of his best work.Known as a symbolist, Klimt enjoyed painting women with an erotic tinge and playing with color. He had a style, though similar to that of Art Nouveau, that was uniquely his own. He won many artistic awards for artwork that still pleases us today.In this book, you will find colorful landscapes, some seemingly impressionistic and some almost abstract. There is also collection of portraits where striking portrayals of people are presented. Examples include "The Kiss" and the "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer," painted during Klimt's "Gold Period." And finally, you will discover a series of nude subjects to delight the eye and imagination.So welcome to the amazing works of the master artist, Gustav Klimt!

This pictorial is the author's fourth collection of fifty classic fine art nudes presented for your enjoyment. Like the previous three volumes, this work gathers art from a variety of time frames and is dedicated to showing the best of nudes (female and male) - both artistically and creatively. Some of the artists of these works have painted realistic nudes. Others have rendered nudes that break free from previous styles of art to bring new ways of seeing the visual world. In either case, an aesthetic beauty is preserved, unique to each artist's talent.The artists included in this pictorial book are: Georges Barbier, Felix Vallotton, Hans Zatzka, Georges Seurat, Shinsui Ito, Anders Zorn, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Konstantin Somov, Albert Joseph Pernot, William H. Johnson, Gaston Brussiere, Edvard Munch, Leo Putz, Jean Francois de Troy, Louis Icart, Henri Adrien Tanoux, Ernst Kirchner, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Suzanne Valadon, Egon Schiele, Frederic Bazille, Hans Thoma, Edward Hopper, Toulouse Lautrec, Vitaly Tikhov, Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, Gyula Tornai, Pablo Picasso, Piero di Cosimo, Georges Rochegrosse, Ilya Repin, Hendrick Goltzius, Oscar Pereira da Silva, George Bellows, Gustave Dore, Henri Lebasque, Akseli Gallen Kallela, Alberto Vargas, Gari Melchers and Murayama Kaita.

Here is a gallery of fifty beautiful works of art that celebrates the naked human form (forty-eight female nudes and two male nudes), ready for your appreciation.This is my third collection of classic fine art nudes. And like the previous two volumes, this work is dedicated to showing you the beauty of the human body as displayed through the talents and creativity of great artists of our past. Many of the painters presented in this book are still famous today, their talents have survived the test of time. Other artists shown here, though they maybe lesser well known, have painted nude artworks that I am certain you will enjoy and I believe are deserving of preservation and continued recognition. The artists included in this book are: Boris Kustodiev, Amrita Sher Gil, Henry Gerbault, Carl Newman, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jacob Van Loo, Ishikawa Tanz, Carl Schweninger der Jungere, Gustave Dore, John Singer Sargent, Felix Vallotton, Richard Buchta, Joan Miro, Pierre Bonnard, Achille Deveria, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, George Hare, Diego Rivera, Jean Léon Gérôme, Theophile Steinlen, William Glackens, Leo Putz, George Barbier, William Blake, Franz Marc, Ramon Casas, Jules Migonney, Toulouse Lautrec, Paul Chabas, Max Nonnenbruch, John Williams Waterhouse, Paul Gauguin, Luis Ricardo Falero, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Katsushika Hokusai, Henri Lebasque, Edvard Munch, Alberto Vargas and Edouard Manet.

It is my intent, when I write poetry, to take the reader on a journey, or to amuse, or to provide a new insight or to express our common, shared experiences.In this new collection of poetry, written between late April and late October of 2020, you will find Covid-19 poems and poems about Joe Biden and Donald Trump. There are poems about people such as the poems inspired by the death of Herman Cain or my personal memory of Robin Williams. There are also wildfire poems and spider poems and other poems I will leave unlabeled.While the poems, here, reflect the personal experiences and thoughts I have had during these turbulent months, as well as my memories and dreams. I know that you will find yourself here, too.So come into these pages and have a laugh, remember things you had forgotten, experience new things, find new insights... be outraged and sad and smile and revel in our shared humanity. Look for other books of my poetry on Amazon such as "Poems by My Cat," "Frankenstein's Monster in Oz," "Am I Indigenous?" and "The Van Gogh Poems."

A Lifetime Lease On obtaining the vampiric seal Precious blood you will learn how to steal, So give it a try You just have to die, To make immortality real!In this updated, second edition, you will find an expanded collection of cartoons and limericks. Here are vampire limericks - like the teaser presented above, naughty limericks, Star Trek cartoons and other cartoons and limericks, interspersed with personal tidbits and humorous commentary. According to the author: The genesis of this book was simple. I was looking for vampire limericks to do a Halloween reading at a library and couldn't find any. So I wrote a few 5-line poems about the undead to fill the void, so others would not have to face a similar problem.This was not enough material to fill a book, though. So I have added in other limericks written and published over the years, as well as some cartoons and a short story. This is me at my silliest. For readers and fans of my more serious poetry, I am happy to present a lighter side of my work!

Here is the author's fifth volume of classic fine art nudes which continues the tradition of being a mixture of different styles from different time periods in celebration of the nude form. This pictorial is like walking into an art museum, entering a gallery, and gazing at the paintings to discover artwork by some of the greatest artists who have every lived. Each painting presented in this book represents the societies and times in which they were painted. Yet they all transcend the parameters of the moment to become true works of art. The beauty and the fascination of the nude is explored in both classical and new ways. Some of the artists in this book will be familiar to you and some may not be familiar you. Rest assured, though, each work of art is worthy of your attention. Here are fifty great nudes - enjoy! (Don't forget to check out the other four volumes in my series of books of Classical Fine Art Nudes.) The artists included in this pictorial book are: Georges le Onnec, Gustave Courbet, Gustav Klimt, Raimundo de Madrazo Garreta, Ishikawa Seishun, Paul Gustav Fischer, Edouard Dantan, Gaston Bussiere, Jan Massys, Blas Olleros y Quintana, Egon-Schiele, After Bloemaert Abraham, Louis Icart, Charles Chaplin, François-Gérard, Felix Vallotton, William Etty, Paul Gauguin, George Barbier, Edvard Munch, Carl Larsson, Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Joseph Stella, Vojtech Hynais Poloakt, Henri Edmond Cross, Gustave Dore, Elihu Vedder, Boris Kustodiev, William Merritt Chase, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Debat Ponsan, William Sergeant Kendall, Peter Paul Rubens, Adolf Ziegler, Frederick Frieseke, Clemens von Pausinger, Kenyon Cox, Jean Bourdichon, Henri Matisse, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, David Shterenberg, Aba Novák, Kuroda Seiki, Lovis Corinth, Elihu Vedder, Carl Larsson, Childe Hassam and Vlaho Bukovac.

Artists have, since the beginning of artistic history, portrayed the female nude in their work. Here is a collection of fine art nudes created by artists you may find both familiar and unfamiliar, but who are sure to delight in either case. Art can reveal not only the naked body of a woman, but the times she lives in, allowing us to take a trip into our past and find that it is not so different from today. Herein lies fifty-four examples of the beauty of the female form as seen through the eyes of great artists.

Finally a book written by an adult cat for grown-up minds - just right for cat lovers everywhere! In these poems, you will see what the world looks like from the point of view of a cat. And discover wisdom and insights into cats that might surprise you.The poems in this book describe many of the inner stories, thoughts and emotions of cats. Much is revealed about the heretofore hidden world of cats with such poems as "Fish Zen," "Lap Time," I Am the Meow," "Cat to Kittens" and "How Cats Became Familiars." The 28 poems in this book were conveyed by the cat author through the use of mental impressions, meows and cat body language. This cycle of poetry will remind you of cats you have known and reveal cat things unknown to you.REVIEWS: "While reading this book of poems, I stopped thinking about myself for a while. That was surprisingly pleasant." - Puss 'N Boots."After reading "Poems by My Cat," I find myself pondering how wonderful it would be to have four legs." - The Little Mermaid."I so enjoyed the poems in this book, that now my smile tends to linger a little longer, after the rest of me fades away." - The Cheshire Cat."After finishing 'Poems by My Cat, ' my lover, The Owl, says that he understands me better." - The Pussycat."When Mowgli had finished reading to me "Poems by My Cat," I felt like I had found a grove of paw paw trees filled with their ripe and juicy fruit." - Ballo the Bear."I thought this poem book by a cat would be filled with doggerel. I stand corrected. I now suspect that cats may actually have souls." - His highness's dog at Kew."Regards this book of poetry by a cat. Methinks that Ahab would have been better off reading it, than chasing me." - Moby Dick.

Here are fifty of the world's best poems to read out loud. These great poems were written by such poets as Shelly and Poe, Tennyson and Coleridge, Blake and Millay, Lear and Carroll and many more.Poets are inventors and engineers of words. Using allusions, imagery and connotations that are already inside the reader's mind, a poet creates a new adventure of unexpected emotions, laughter, images, ideas or new perspectives - and often a combination of all of these. And that is what you will find here.Here are poems that are as important today as the day they were written.When this poetry is read aloud even greater meanings are revealed, through rhythms and rhymes that challenge the tongue and delight the mind. Your mind and the audience that hears them will find new meanings and understandings relevant to your life and their lives.There are poems here for actors doing an audition, for lovers seeking romance, for the shy to appear witty and for anyone who wishes a richer understanding of English including those where English is a second language.Most importantly, these poems are for those who love poetry and the grandeur of language.And for those in book clubs, why not take a break from the biographies and long novels and have a poetry party? Such poetry gatherings will find amusements and insights and have much to discuss after reading this book.Here are the classics to be read out loud - enjoy.

This book provides an overview of the traditional weapons used by the Samurai of Japan - on the battlefield and in their role as bodyguards.Throughout the hundreds of years of history that the Samurai class was active in Japan, the Samurai became synonymous with the ideal of the honorable warrior. It is the closeness by which the individual Samurai came to such an ideal, that their appeal to the imagination still lives today.We are fascinated with Samurai as well as their cousins, the Ninjas, and the Knights of old. So it is not surprising that the legends of the Samurai have had strong effect on our popular culture.The book also takes note of other icons of Japanese cultural. Through articles, images and poetry, the story is told.Carl Scott Harker is the author of twelve books of poetry, books on the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van Gogh and other works.

Here is the author's third book of poetry. This book contains poems written over the last 2 plus years.From late 2016 to August 2019, the world has experienced a tremendous increase in social and environmental pressures and this poet could not escape such influences. Whether it was the day to day corruption oozing from the White House or the more and more obvious climate crisis, world events have seeped into our lives. In the search for truth, it is in such times as ours, that it is the poet's job to reflect on what is going on around us. Hopefully, I have refined some of what has been pressed into our lives into poetic fine vintages for you to enjoy and ponder. There are poems about our environment and the climate crisis. And there are poems about the current President of the United States. Other issues of our times are touched upon as well.But this book also contains lighter verse, including a couple of limericks and several quatrains. And there are the usual searches for beauty and universal truths, that are found in our regular and more common daily events. So captured here in these poems is a slice of time I hope you, the reader, will find both entertaining and thought provoking. And with some humility, I hope that future historians will find some value in this book of poetry when they seek to understand what was going on in these years.

The image of the female nude has been captured in many different mediums - through paintings and illustrations and since 1850 in photographs.This book, "Vintage Nudes of Yesteryear" features sixty-five black and white photos of nude women produced generally between the years 1900 and 1923. The beginning of the 1900's was a time when social taboos began to disappear and nude photography began appearing in magazines, on postcards and in art instruction books. And of course, professional photographers also sold their works directly to the general public.There are a variety of beautiful images, in this book, featuring some of the best of the vintage photographic work of yesteryear.