Richard Weissman
www.richard-weissman.com
magicalrealismauthor@gmail.com
In 2000, Richard Weissman’s theatrical play, “The Healing” was selected by Abdingdon Theatre for a staged reading Off-Broadway in 2000.
Richard is the author of two Wiley Trading titles. His second book, Trade Like a Casino was selected as a Finalist for the 2012 Technical Analyst Book of the Year Award.
After the publication of these two successful trading titles, Mr. Weissman returned to his first love, fiction. Inspired by the hundredth anniversary of the Great War’s onset, in August,2014 he began writing, Generations a novel set in the period 1914-1942. Twenty-six months later he completed this historical novel in the tradition of magical realism. Generations is the first in what will eventually be a five-book series spanning from 1914 to 2014.
And she wonders religion, and she wonders spirit and she wonders magic and
she wonders mystic - trying desperate - to escape outside of self - to
think from a cat view and fly from an eagle view, to abandon humanity,
to look out on it stretched cross Wyoming wide stars and down upon it from afar,
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Blood red wounds wept for this world,
The season of hope unfurls.
Though solution claws up from knotted belly,
Bleak emptiness drains me still,
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Cold winter's white blanket has bled grey-black from Jersey's sooty shores,
Here 'neath shadows of Wall Street's towered sky,
Here in Richmond, where ne'er he lived,
Here his aspirations lay lifeless,
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In all life's ways she's back, that voice is back, as truth drifts back, all these paths which they'd wandered and dreamt upon turn back - Now unveiling through blanker verses of death's book, Now revealing as unborn artists look, Now concealing through these shattered shadowed lights of the vortexed color bar in a rainbowed void and so to reveal it that now it is back
Paradox of paradoxes whilst the voice chimes hollowed back though voice itself quieter contained, confined within verbal-lined visions of what? A Silent Echo, better still-
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Steady sounding of heart suddenly syncopated,
Now faint,
Fainter,
‘til still.
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