Bøger af Michael Davidson

Losing a loved one to a heinous, evil deed would be bad enough. But having its perpetrators go unpunished for their horrible acts is too much, for many, to ever imagine having to bear. Over a decade ago, stricken by family grief, one man makes a vow to never let go until justice is served--no matter what. This is a dark, unfortunate story, but one that must be told. When our system of 'justice' fails, what can we do in order to find peace? How should society judge those who go outside the law to protect future innocents? And how far is too far in an uphill battle to destroy an ominous and prevalent threat to the wellbeing of our society? Most human beings have limits that they set for themselves; limits that sometimes get challenged and pushed to the very limits. But sometimes, when pushed to unimaginable lengths of grief, anger and helplessness, these limits fracture. It's in these moments that the true test of fortitude begins...

Meaningful change is a parody. It is titled as a detailed account of President Donald Trump's accomplishments but it is, in fact, the exact opposite. Any reader who is a Democrat or non-supporter of the President will be amused upon opening to find the book is filled with nothing. The book simply, yet powerfully allows the empty pages to point out Trump's downfalls in topics like race-relations, party unity and global synergy. Meaningful Change is meant to be a humorous but poignant message on Donald Trump's negative effect on his country and the world. Please use the blank pages as a notebook to inspire greater ideals for how you would make change in the world.

MICHAEL DAVIDSON (1897-1975) was an English foreign correspondent who caused a sensation in 1962 when he published an autobiography, The World, The Flesh and Myself, which opened with the sentence "This is the life history of a lover of boys." In an England where homosexuality was still illegal and widely reviled, it was incredibly daring, but his patent honesty won hearts and it was well-received:"the twofold story of a courageous and lovable person's struggle to come to terms with his Grecian heresy and of a brilliant journalist's fight against colonial jingoism" - Arthur Koestler (author of Darkness at Noon), The Observer.One of the books that were "the only salvation and sense in my life" and "reflected my own emotional turmoil and my own circumstances" - Stephen Fry on himself as a teenager, Moab Is My Washpot.Davidson followed the success of his first book with this even more revealing sequel, a fond memoir of his adolescent friends in sixteen cities spanning three continents over three decades. Written with the keen observation of a brilliant journalist invariably open to diverse customs and warmly empathetic with the young:"We should be grateful that in Mr. Davidson we have a highly intelligent writer with a sensitive awareness of his nature. As to his style, no other contemporary English writer of prose possesses such exact lyricism, wit and learning" - Colin Spencer, The Evening Standard.For this edition, some explicit passages, cut from both previous British editions but included in the very rare American edition, have been restored, and explanatory background notes have been added by novelist Edmund Marlowe.

George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Press in the 1930s, has become one of America's most admired poets. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Of Being Numerous, which The New Yorker recently said is "unmatched by any book of American poetry since." The New Collected Poems is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego, who also writes an introduction about the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that will give interested readers an understanding of the background of the individual books as well as keys to references in the poems. The award-winning essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger offers a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, "Oppen Then." This newly revised paperback edition also includes a generous CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry collections.

Judge Rath is the fourth book in the Jon Sadler Mystery series. I thought after I'd written Darth and the Puppeteers, I was finished with Mr. Sadler. But I missed him and eventually came up with an idea of how I could get him in trouble again. If you've read my three previous novels with Jon Sadler as protagonist, you will know that I lean slightly toward the psychic and metaphysical. In Judge Rath I have created a mystery in which, Jon, as Judge Rath, and some of my favorite characters in the first three novels, find themselves in their past lives caught up in a wild-west whodunit set in the year 1864. The scene is the City of San Fernando, California, in the San Fernando Valley.Jon has been sent into the past by, Aaron, an Avatar affiliated with our old friend, Darth. For reasons explained in the book, Jon was in need of discovering an element in his nature that had been passive in his life as a psychiatrist. Judge Rath has a proclivity to shoot first, and shoot again, and finds himself mired in what appears to be the random killings of saloon whores. Out of frustration, Jon telegraphs the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago. Alan Pinkerton sends out his ace female detective, Kate Wayne, the first female detective in the country. Together, and with the support of President Abraham Lincoln, they undertake to solve what history will refer to as: The Case of the Cannabis Cannibals.

Fire and Ice came to me on a morning while living in Sierra Madre, California. It was like watching a film, and I simply wrote what I saw. The Grave was an experiment in writing in a different style, and was written after visiting an overgrown and disorganized graveyard in the hills east of Cambria, California. Meet Me at Ala Mar is a fictional tale focused on a quaint motel on the Cabrillo Highway in Santa Barbara, California, overlooking the Santa Barbara harbor. It tells the story of a beautiful and passionate woman who meets, clandestinely, with a man at the Ala Mar Motel. My Life with Luke and Heidi is auto-biographical. It was written two months after my dog Luke died. You may have noticed some similarities between, 'Meet me at Alar Mar' and 'My Life with Luke and Heidi. It was done consciously. The Stories and the writing styles of these four tales could not be more dissimilar. There is, however, a similar theme that reveals itself in each book. Can you find it?

Every Friday evening in an office six doors off Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena California, Jon Sadler and three fellow psychotherapists practice a therapeutic intervention with hand puppetry in an attempt to assist their clients in drawing out the dark side of their personalities, what Carl Jung coined as the Shadow. The depth of their combined knowledge assures them of the benign nature of their undertaking so that they were unprepared for the results of their efforts and unaware that the neighborhood killings were intimately related to their little friends. Not far, as the crow flies on the north side of Riverside Drive, lay the Glendale site of Forrest Lawn Cemeteries, a two hundred acres of cultivated earth reserved for the dead. At the summit of the enriched soil, Jon Sadler's friend and associate, Darth, lay quietly at rest in his vaultlike crypt, at least that was where he was supposed to be. Darth was never really human. He had appeared and befriended Jon Sadler in a combined effort to eradicate the demon, Samael, the angel of death who had taken up residency in the Ocean Front Mall in Long Beach. The culmination of that effort resulted in Darth's demise, and Darth's body, which was not really his body, was interred. Now Darth is needed in Pasadena, and that's where our story begins. Cover Art: Douglas F. Jones

The best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

A collection of essays, that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms - including literature, performance, photography, and film. It covers topics such as the phantom missing limb in film noir, the sale of limbs on the global market, and the poetry of American Sign Language.

The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period in the San Francisco Bay area and then as it blossomed into the literary excitements associated with the Beat movement.