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    Street Images: Writings from Street People, #1
    Street Images: Writings from Street People, #1
    Street Images: Writings from Street People, #1
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    Street Images: Writings from Street People, #1

    By Michael A. Susko

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    Those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally or spiritually poor. "Street persons" can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This work seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope. From Clem who writes The humorous "My Little Spot," as he recovers from frost bite in the hospital,"  to Theodora who describes her manic flights in "Olympus" there is real genuine human experience to be found in these pages

     

    The persons in this anthology are also prophets in their own way, unheralded and un-noticed. But if we listen, we can sense their fire, hear their message.  We can marvel too how in these covid-19 times, a poet could foresee write from years ago a poem titled  "Apocalypse." with the words:

     

    While the sun goddess weeps her last song

    The plague has begun

    People in plastic bags heading toward the city dump.

    I lock myself in my room

     

    There's something evergreen about these poets and writers. Their message does not die with a given time. We need only to listen from persons who  have nothing to profit or gain from our listening. Only we stand to benefit, when we hear the resonance within our souls. So I invite you to enter into a time capsule, an eternity – where voices otherwise lost can now be heard.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllrOneofUs Publishing
    Release dateMay 8, 2020
    ISBN9781393936985
    Street Images: Writings from Street People, #1
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    Michael A. Susko

    The author, having degrees in philosophy and psychology, has taught a variety of classes, from dream interpretation to Indigenous studies. He has also helped to found and worked in a progressive charter school that used novel methods like arts integration.In this work the author shares some of his best photographs, from his series, Haikus and Photos. The "mystery photos" of this work reveal the author's love of beauty and mystery, which he explores with commentary. 

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      Street Images - Michael A. Susko

      NEW INTRODUCTION TO STREET IMAGES I

      As I re-read these poems, prose-poems and brief biographies, from persons I had met in my wanderings, I find I am again amazed by the poetic fire from  persons on the streets, poets and writers whose work will not grace anthologies of the future. These are persons close to the pulse of life who lived on the street, or near the street—having been placed in psychiatric in hospitals—one step removed from the streets. They are prophets in their own way, unheralded, un-noticed, but yet if we but look, we can sense their fire, hear their message. I marvel too, how in these COVID-19 times, a poet could foresee and write many years the words in a poem titled  Apocalypse.

      While the sun goddess weeps her last song

      The plague has begun

      People in plastic bags heading toward the city dump.

      I lock myself in my room

      There’s something evergreen about poets. Their message does not die with a given time.  We need only to listen to such messages, from persons who have nothing to profit or gain from our listening. Only we stand to benefit, when we hear the resonance in our souls.

      So I invite you to enter a time capsule, an eternity—where voices otherwise lost can now be heard.

      Michael A. Susko, editor  5/10/2020

      INTRODUCTION

      TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION

      The poor and those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally poor. Street Persons can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This Journal seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope.

      The first section is written by those who are living on the streets or who once did.* The line between the streets and institutional settings becomes blurred, and thus the second section includes those who have lived in halfway houses. Last, the section entitled End of the City admits that nuclear weapons target the city for mass destruction. In another sense, End of the City hopes that the present injustice and plight will end, and a new city be born. Images of the country remind us too, that the city’s boundaries end at a point, and give us relief from the streets.

      Michael A. Susko, Winter, 1983

      Original copyright, 1983

      *Brief biographic sketches of most street authors are included in the back of the Journal.

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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      A project such as this needs the work of many hands to complete. An early editorial staff did meet but the uncertain­ties that face many street persons and people in halfway houses came upon some of our members – evictions, hospitalizations, and other setbacks drew the staff apart. However, many people helped, some more at the beginning and some at the end. Thanks to Ken Rowell and Paula Romona for their participation in those early planning stages; to Harry Livingstone for his needful instigation and to Marc Grabowski who gave his time and financial support and who also proof-read the Journal. A special thanks to Blanche Van de Castle who did the bulk of the printing and having a hand in everything else, deserves an

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