Bøger af Jonathan Hayes

To be able to write this poetry book has been a long time coming. My mind has always wondered what the realities of life really were. I always thought life would be so easy, but I have learned many lessons along the way to help me navigate and understand who I am as a person, but to also inspire someone about internal thoughts that I have come to understand. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Poetry. Poetry on the move, yet always present. Jonathan Hayes's T(HERE) is a polyphonic, polyvisual, mini-epic consciousness journey. This book is a great read for anyone with a wide-open mind, whether through years of Zen meditation, decades of scholarly philosophical investigation.

NIPPON is, on its attractive surface, the story of a man who goes to Japan from California to marry his beloved. While he is there, the two climb Fuji, wander about, watch a baseball game. And get married.Intricacies abound. The marriage will be between cultures, so the tone and word choice of the poem moves effortlessly between influences as supple and as primal as William Carlos Williams and Mei Sheng. There is another mix: a curious one of restiveness and calm providing a paradox: a yearning for what is there.Hayes draws the characters by what they do or what they choose to see, there is little descriptive prose. Parallelism returns to our poetry, Fuji seamlessly serves as a background and as a metaphor for the stages of courtship, and baseball, loved in both places, casts a benign shadow of Swallows and Giants, like a story children love to hear.The story is rounded with airplanes, those modern equivalents of flaming chariots, and the reader is left with images that are profoundly everyday while smoothly reflecting images that resonate like gongs in an unfamiliar temple.(Description written by Professor Daniel J. Langton.)

American Haiku joins an already impressive body of work by San Francisco poet Jonathan Hayes, following on his most recent Nippon (2012). In American Haiku, we're in San Francisco with the poet, walking the streets, living the city, right with him, always in that haiku moment transfiguring these poems, a deep sense of wabi-sabi.This one's worthy to be on that special shelf with Jack Kerouac's Book of Haikus. As hard as rock in the rain, as soft as long hair in the wind.- Don Skiles author of Miss America

Jonathan Hayes is a poet of the miracle of survival. Whether he is on the job as a poet, husband, ordinary man or a grocery clerk each moment of life brings with it metaphysical adventures. For in these poems you will find redemption and forgiveness in marriage, such as when the poet confesses to his wife, "I shit my boxers," and the expressed singular sorrow for a missing local girl. Poetry is often accused of being too arty and rarified for popular taste. Not so; for in these rough-hewn lyrics you will find raw life, tender love, horror, sorrow, and toil at the day job all set in a unique location on earth: Santa Cruz, California. For here in these poems you will find the beauty of ordinary life in all its vivid majesty. Richard Lopez @ Really Bad Movies.com

A polyphonic, polyvisual, mini-epic consciousness journey.

Forensic pathologist Edward Jenner survived the horrific ordeal of the Inquisitor serial slayings in New York, but not the political fallout. With his state medical license suspended, he hopes to repair his shattered life while working as a medical examiner in Douglas County, Florida. But evil is not confined to big cities alone.Two corpses pulled from a sunken car?followed by the grisly discovery of four more bodies hanging in the Everglades?are evidence of an insidious rot infecting this quiet coastal resort community. Suddenly Jenner's investigation is turning up grim traces of a nightmarish conspiracy?and with no one to trust and nowhere to turn, his only hope of survival is to walk away . . . something Jenner could never do.

'They found her in the East Village, nailed to the wall of a railroad flat'Dr. Edward Jenner is a New York forensic pathologist: he has attended countless murder scenes and performed thousands of autopsies but the killing of 21 year old Andie Delore is different. The killer is leading Jenner and Ana into his own private nightmare.

His medical license suspended, Jenner finds himself banished from New York to Douglas County in coastal Florida, and settles in to work as a Medical Examiner in the balmy seaside resort of Port Fontaine.