Bøger af Gary Oliver

a book of love sonnets, love-songs, verse

Gary Oliver's MC Rave is an exciting new novel rap artist and creates a youth culture and dance music scene called 'the rave' emulating the ultimate Summer of Love and worldly romance whilst organising and promoting parties. to achieve his dreams.

Wooden Indians is a deep poetic expression of the overriding issue of our time. The book is meant to display an earthy realism that should bind the reader to the planet. I want to make the reader think about their place in this world, globe, planet. I want to make the reader question the vision of our existence, or humanity. I want the reader to go right out and save the planet, in their own small way. Perhaps instead of going shopping...

A history that has been hidden in the darkness, kept form the world to legitimise theft, violence, and dishonour. Whole edifices have been built to this idiom. Intuitions have crafted functions, cannons, and academic discourses to keep this secret. The black man/woman's achievement have been ignored by a western civilisation that built upon their creation of society. Their inventions miss-attributed by reinvention, their philosophies discredited, and their cultures assimilated. In the hope that they would forget and not remember their former glory and therefore forget the betrayal of their former trading partners, the western Europeans. But they did not forget, they did remember and despite all they have been put through, their heads remain held high in their remembrance of all that went before. Yet, the black man/woman does not reciprocate in the wholesale violence perpetrated on their ancestors. Nor do they sink into the dark sullen debased vengeful hate typical of those who urged and advocated the construct of racism, they have not taken hatred's bate. They have not succumbed to the urges of paranoia revenge so readily given into by the Europeans, even after the murder of their brothers, sisters, their children, and their wife's, not even after their rape, maiming, and barbaric lynching. The black man /woman are truly remarkable human beings, from truly magnificent ancestors, a truly magnificent people. Surely, if human beings are made in the image of God the Father, then they are made in this image- a servant, humble, forgiving, strong, loving, durable, resourceful, clever, persistent, proud, flexible, humble, hard-working, generous, innovative, intelligent, understanding, inventive, creative and a survivor, black survivor...

Dear Love Powa, By Gary Oliver ; This book of sonnets, poems, love songs and verse. He addresses the many aspects of love, its wonder-lust, its excitement and its joyfulness, but also the life trails, the tribulations and, for those engaged in it, what he calls the Roller-coaster ride of love. In this new powerful poetic work Gary examines the complex intense powerful sexual, familial and communal emotions associated with love. He evaluates, discusses and muses on the break ups, the rejections and the love-plays, obsessions, love rays and the wild abandonment of human dignity concerned with being in love and living with love.

A book that helps parents understand the unique challenges and corresponding opportunities of parenting sons, you'll find within its pages advice on everything from recognizing the dramatic differences between boys and girls to the specific ways parents can cultivate their son's heart for God.