Bøger af Johnny Dolphin

MY MANY KISSES AND OTHER SHORT STORIES features 20 highly entertaining vignettes of people who have decided to change their lives and then go out do so. Dolphin, whose body of work is always about potential, gives us characters who, for the most part, understand that wisdom opens many doors. We meet a miner who has decided to become a mystic, a man who understands that his constant failures are really successes when the bigger picture is observed, a wandering poet whose goal is to have enough money to pay for his meals and enough talent to entertain his friends and others. These are characters who are "ready," who expect things to happen and so they do. There are great life lessons in these pages, but they never overwhelm the stories themselves. Dolphin proves himself a true master of the craft of short-story writing, giving us real characters and pacing their plots so that they tell us precisely what we need to know and no more. In this way the stories are swift and compelling, meaningful and memorable...and, ultimately, universal.

Liberated Space is the final novel in Dolphin¿s Trilogy of the ¿60s. Here our hero, Joe Madison, describes the events taking place in Haight Ashbury between 1967-68, telling of realities and transformations occurring at the heart of the cultural revolution that changed the mindscape of America.

The poems in Off the Road tell the story of a man has chosen to embrace life¿firmly¿understanding full well that that means embracing the challenges and failures along with the successes and rewards. Because the man is Johnny Dolphin (otherwise known as John Allen), a man who has traveled around the world, fathered scientific concepts (including Biosphere 2) and artistic concepts (including Caravan of Dreams Theater), and whose friends run the gamut from the most famous (and infamous) thinkers of the last 60 years to folks from the most remote cultures left on the planet, the life being embraced here is as rich in scope as the poetry describing it is rich in stylistic approach. The writing in Off the Road is straight-forward, unassuming, provocative, and playful by turns. Yet this is a poet whose intent is never to hide behind his words. Off The Road is an excellent journey, providing the reader with a vast multitude of introductions and adventures.

This is the sequel to 39 Blows on a Gone Trumpet. After the passion of energies described in 39 Blows, Dolphin explores the world of underlying meaning, the patterns behind the facade of cultures and the new forms emerging in synchronicity around the globe. In a series of episodes, he takes us to the Magic Room in Tangiers, to the Tombs of Knowledge in Egypt and Asia and into the cruel realities of Vietnam, returning to the Real Cafe in New York. It is now the 60's and the herös return coincides with the start of the `counter-revolution¿ in the USA for which his journeys have prepared him. The third volume will take us into the heart of the Haight-Ashbury phenomenon, telling of things quite beyond the popular images and memories of that event. Woven into the novel, like its precursor 39 Blows, is the passionate literature of the ages: from Mayakovsky¿s ardor to Blake¿s ecstatic wrath; from the eloquence of Whitman to the density of Joyce; from the `cut-up¿ technique of Burroughs to the terse and exact poetry of Brecht; and the love of the unknown that stretches from Khayyam to Baudelaire.

These first three texts in the collected works of the Caravan of Dreams Theater span the world's literature in an imaginative and novel way, tapping into streams of mysticism, magic and human emotion.

Johnny Dolphin is the latest author to emerge from the Tangiers school of writing affiliated with the name of William Burroughs. 39 Blows is his first novel, one of a trilogy exploring the experiential space of the planet.

In his science-fiction novel, Far Out and Far Away, scientist-poet-author Johnny Dolphin has imagined what we humans could become were we willing to participate consciously in our own evolution.

In contrast with the first volume, this second volume focuses on novel mythologies and social forces at play. The three plays present the differentiating American archetypal pursuits of happiness: the glory of the lone individual, the glamour of Hollywood and the magic lure of Space.