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Waltz, Editor, Conduit Literary Magazine Greg Bachar earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of CURIOSISOSITY, Dumb Bell \u0026amp; Sticky Foot (\u0026amp; Other Indulgences), Beans (\u0026amp; Other Sundry Items From The General Store), Sensual Eye (The Jack Waste Papers Volume I, 1991-2004), Three-Sided Coin (Published Works 1990-2003), Amusement Park Of The Mind (Essays On Thought, Feeling, Experience), The Writing Machine (Writings About Writing: Occasional Ruminations On An Intangible Legerdemain).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367636832529,"sku":"CIN0971986738VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971986738.jpg?v=1751266578"},{"product_id":"book-of-was-book-greg-bachar-9780971986763","title":"The Book Of Was","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367643123985,"sku":"CIN0971986762G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971986762.jpg?v=1751331295"},{"product_id":"sun-poems-book-greg-bachar-9780971986770","title":"The Sun Poems","description":"A book of poems about the sun and sun themes: the infinite, solar longevity, illumination, magnitudinal longing, vicissitudes of entanglement, temporal resonance, the shadow realm, synthesis, incandescence, fluorescence, seasonal ebbs and flows, chandelier thinking, flared expansion, ornithological blindness, orbital conjugations, bliss. Greg Bachar (pronounced BOCKER) is the author of Three-Sided Coin, Sensual Eye, CURIOSISOSITY, Dumb Bell \u0026amp; Sticky Foot, Beans, The Amusement Park Of The Mind, The Writing Machine, and The Book Of Was.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50374213828881,"sku":"CIN0971986770VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971986770.jpg?v=1751077838"},{"product_id":"writing-machine-book-greg-bachar-9780971986787","title":"The Writing Machine","description":"When he was eight years old, Greg Bachar (pronounced BOCKER) wrote, My machine would do my writing for me. His name would be Mr. Machine. He would be made from steel. He would be a big machine. The color would be silver. The magic button would be on the side with the other buttons. I would not tell anybody about my magic machine. Decades of production later, Bachar presents a collection of essays on the sleight of hand that fuels his writing machine's engine. Press the magic button and climb inside.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51193874678033,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51193876447505,"sku":"NIN9780971986787","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971986789.jpg?v=1751203430"},{"product_id":"amusement-park-of-the-mind-book-greg-bachar-9780971986749","title":"The Amusement Park Of The Mind","description":"Welcome to The Amusement Park Of The Mind (Essays On Thought, Feeling, And Experience) by Greg Bachar (pronounced BOCKER). The park is divided into three areas. Use the sky bridge to navigate your way between them: THOUGHT: Velimir Khlebnikov, Rene Daumal, Andre Breton, Jacques Vache, Katy Masuga, Henry Miller, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas. FELING: Henri Alain-Fournier, Paul Leppin, Raymond Radiguet, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Seamus Heaney, John Ashbery, C.K. Williams, Andre Breton, Jean-Joseph Surin, Michel DeCerteau, Samuel Daniel, John Donne, Robert Herrick, George Etherege, Andrei Tarkovsky. EXPERIENCE: Isabelle Eberhardt, Frank Stanford, Atilla Jozsef, Sister Corita Kent, Henri Charriere, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Williams, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Levine, Adrienne Rich, Charles Wright, Ignazio Silone, Ralph Ellison, Henry James.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51193874645265,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51193877135633,"sku":"NIN9780971986749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0971986746.jpg?v=1751266578"},{"product_id":"la-fete-de-la-vie-book-greg-bachar-9781886934115","title":"La Fête de la Vie","description":"Jacqueline Miller Bachar trusted the creative process she had embraced since her years working as an art therapist in the 1970's that laid the groundwork for a life of creative endeavors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe recognized that experimentation is an essential part of the process when she wrote to her short story course instructor G. Miki Hayden in 2000, this is the time for me to try it and learn in the trying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author tried to write her first story in 1995- La F te de la Vie (The Celebration of Life). She was sixty years old. The story won 1st place in the Palm Springs Writers Guild Short Story Contest and was published in the September 2000 issue of \u003ci\u003ePalm Springs Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI have to go through the process with a germ of an idea, then rewrite, rewrite, struggle, pain and agony, and then, voila, she wrote in 2001. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere was a lot of voila between 1998 and 2001 when eight of the fourteen stories in this collection were written. Perhaps helping her husband battle cancer to remission at the time led to an unleashing of creative energy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI have written four books during stressful times of illness, she wrote, my mother's cancer, me with rheumatoid arthritis, Paul's cancer, and my cancer. Isolated and separated from society and normal activity, the mind turns inward. The concentration of the inner self seems to release a productive period of creativity. It is an escape from the real world with all its inherent problems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs it in the knowledge of death that life is truly celebrated? the author asks. I believe it is so. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories and poems in this collection explore themes of grief and loss, the celebration and continuum of life, fulfillment of pledges made between friends, rediscovery of the self after trauma, and the value of family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacqueline Bachar, author and editor of Poetry in the Garden, Life on the Ohio Frontier, Images of a Woman, and An Exploration of Boundaries, was named a 2010 Woman of Distinction by the National League of PEN Women and awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51713002930449,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51713003651345,"sku":"CIN1886934118G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53241079398673,"sku":"CIN1886934118VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1886934118.jpg?v=1751379885"},{"product_id":"spirit-of-achievement-book-greg-bachar-9781886934160","title":"The Spirit of Achievement","description":"After Jacqueline met Lili Miura, the owner of Miura Advertising \u0026amp; Marketing and publisher of \u003ci\u003eTorrance Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePalos Verdes Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, she proposed becoming a contributing editor responsible for identifying and writing articles about local people and a column provisionally titled Woman of Achievement, later revised to The Spirit of Achievement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiura agreed, and from 1995 to 1999, Jacqueline Miller Bachar wrote 40 articles and interviews for \u003ci\u003ePV Style\u003c\/i\u003e. 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