Book reviews written in 2004-6 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
Zen Physics
David J. Darling
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet
Benjamin Hoff
Treason
Ann Coulter
Slander
Ann Coulter
Breaking the Maya Code
Michael D. Coe
The Light at the Edge of the Universe
Michael D. Lemonick
All The Trouble In The World
P.J. O'Rourke
God Is Red
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Parliament of Whores
P.J. O'Rourke
The Edges of Science
Richard Morris
Cosmic Coincidences
John Gribbin & Martin Rees
Songs of the Doomed
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Why the Reckless Survive
Melvin Konner
Fork It Over
Alan Richman
The Lost Ship of Noah
Charles Berlitz
The Essential Kabbalah
Daniel C. Matt
Universes
John Leslie
Bible Code II
Michael Drosnin
The Mythology of North America
John Bierhorst
The Mythology of South America
John Bierhorst
The Mythology of Mexico and Central America
John Bierhorst
Weird Illinois
Troy Taylor
Voices Of The First Day
Robert Lawlor
You Are the World
J. Krishnamurti
When The Sun Moves Northward
Mabel Collins
Creative Visualization
Shakti Gawain
The Dervishes Of Turkey
Lucy M.J. Garnett
Voices Of Our Ancestors
Dhyani Ywahoo
Eduardo El Curandero
Douglas Sharon
The Dead Sea Scrolls: After Forty Years
Hershel Shanks
Unfit For Command
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi
Get In The Van
Henry Rollins
A Preliminary Edition Of The Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls
Ben Zion Wacholder
At the Heart of the Web
George A. Seielstad
Jesus & the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Barbara Thiering
Reading the Mind of God
James Trefil
Stones, Bones, and Ancient Cities
Lawrence H. Robbins
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Sufi Thought and Action
Idries Shah
Urban Legends and the Japanese Tale
David Schaefer
A Global Ethic
Hans Kung & Karl-Josef Kuschel
The Art of Napping
William A. Anthony
Mount Analogue
Rene Daumal
Cultural Encounters
Robert Cecil & David Wade, eds.
Archaeological Mexico
Marcia Castro Leal
Lost Kingdoms of the Maya
Gene S. Stuart & George E. Stuart
Sacred Architecture
A.T. Mann
The Secret Language of Symbols
David Fontana
Magick, Shamanism & Taoism
Richard Herne
Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade
Brian M. Fagan
The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya
Jeremy A. Sabloff
A Book of Angels
Sophy Burnham
Angel Letters
Sophy Burnham
The Gospel of Thomas
Marvin Meyer
Native American History
Judith Nies
Easy Field Guide to Southwestern Petroglyphs
Elizabeth C. Welsh
Easy Field Guide to Indian Art & Legends of the Southwest
James R. Cunkle
Easy Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Southwest
Rick Harris
Children of Kali
Kevin Rushby
Meister Eckhart
Raymond B. Blakney
The Constitution of the United States
Harold J. Spaeth
Pagan Celtic Ireland
Barry Raftery
Crazy Clouds
Perle Besserman & Manfred Steger
(oops - not enough room here - see the full list at EschatonBooks.com)
About the Author: Brendan Tripp began writing poetry in high school, continued into college, and expanded his writing in his years as a P.R. Executive and Publisher. He eventually settled into a pattern of writing 250 poems per year, and continued doing so for a dozen or so years in the 80's and 90's. Every year he'd produce a comb-bound collection of all of that year's output, and this new series of releases is replicating those collections, but in perfect-bound paperback editions. His better-known chapbooks were put out every couple of years, and were essentially "best of" collections featuring 10% of the 500 poems composed during a particular 2-year span. Eventually these will likely be pulled together into one volume and re-issued here as well. Brendan has been very active on-line from the very early years of the Web, and has published a good deal of his poetry on his blog, which he began in 2000. This, from time to time, included reading audios of various poems. Due to the large number of pieces involved, this has never been been systematically addressed, but that is an element that is being considered for future development, possibly through a Blog Talk Radio channel, or via YouTube videos. As is evident from even a cursory reading of Tripp's poetry, most of this is dark, brooding, anguished, and fraught with despair. Eventually the process of giving these sorts of inner states a physical form began to take a toll, creating something of a neuro-linguistic feedback loop of increasing morbidity, and around 2004 he took the dramatic step of no longer writing poetry on a regular basis. After having composed so much for so long, this came as quite a shock to Tripp's system, and the various publishing projects that he had in the works (including a web site with three decades' worth of poems) fell by the wayside. It was only in the past year, following his being hired to consult on a book project, that the idea of using one of the now easily-accessible on-demand publishing services (Amazon's "Create Space") came up, and he has begun the major process of developing new editions of these annual collections. While Brendan Tripp has no plans to resume writing poetry, he is quite interested in getting his "life's work" out there, both in print, and eventually in e-books and other media. Tripp lives in Chicago where he is a consulting Marketing Communications pro, and freelance writer. He can be found all over the Internet as "BTRIPP" (except for where he's not).
