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2003 CHANNELS
OR TANYA AND TOMMY IN THE TUBE
...the book that Victor Greentree calls "my personal favorite." Find out more...
Victor's Writings, What Others Have Said
Victor Greentree studied fiction with Herbert Wilner while getting his M.A. and worked with Lawrence Hart in his “action poetry” group. He has taught Creative Writing for many years for the University of California.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT VICTOR GREENTREE'S WRITINGS
I've enjoyed your "Tanya and Tommy." . . . There certainly is an affinity here with the visionary [poet] [Kenneth] Patchen. A true seer.
.........James Laughlin, New Directions, publisher of Pound, Nabokov, Dylan Thomas
. . . a very personal blending of shamanistic, feminist and human potential themes.
.........Marie Cantlon, Proseworks, Boston
. . . definitely gifted as a writer. I would like to recommend him highly where imagination and creativity are valued.
.........Kay Boyle, novelist and poet
Delightful manuscript. I enjoyed it immensely.
.........Art Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle
What a beautiful morning I've just had dancing into/inside your book/flash/poem. Truth disguised as magic is still truth is noisy truth. Wonder of wonders, the earth is full of poets and verses fill the winds as roses fill the sea.
.........Jim Fadiman, PhD, founder, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology
The book has an intellect, art-intent, literary-feel that is all too often absent in higher consciousness things, as if the latter could exist without the former.
.........Terence McKenna, writer and historical theorist
Publisher's Press Release:
THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO YOUR IMAGINATION AND THE POWERS OF YOUR MIND. YOU WILL PASS THROUGH THE SCREEN OF TIME INTO THE OTHER WORLD.
It's 1987, and Tanya and Tommy Clark are bored. Story-telling Uncle Ned teaches them a way, based upon a real Tibetan Buddhist exercise, of turning their heads into television sets. Soon they are watching a big screen in their minds. They enter the screen and become a part of the picture. Soon they are watching another screen: the screen within the screen. They enter that too. Things get "curiouser and curiouser." And climax in a dialogue between Tommy and a shaman, the all-wise Wizard of Iyyd, in the middle of the desert.
Along the way there's: Lonesome Al who has sex with mountains; Radio Shakespeare: the latest version of Hamlet; a prize fight in a salad bowl; Tommy's trial; much thigh-slapping poetry; the bullfight; Tanya meets the big mouth; "the Secret of Life in Welsh"and more. Tanya and Tommy were no longer bored! And you won't be either.
"And that's what I really like about it. Tommy's dialogue with the Wizard not only carries magic beyond the storybook fiction of our literature, it creates a new level of reality synonymous with the shaman's world--wherein is revealed the true nature of things and the enfolding of history before our very eyes." Victor Greentree
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The book tour
2003 Channels or Tanya and Tommy in the Tube is published by COE Books and Media.
Victor Greentree; Trade Paperback; Retail is $23.95
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