Btripp Books - 2008 by Brendan Tripp

Btripp Books - 2008 by Brendan Tripp

Book reviews written in 2008 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:

The Bell Curve
Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray

The Lopsided Ape
Michael C. Corballis

Rewriting History
Dick Morris

Secrets of the Ancient Incas
Michael Peter Langevin

Teachings of Gurdjieff
C.S. Nott

The Unknowable Gurdjieff
Margaret Anderson

The First American
C.W. Ceram

Our Universe
S. Alan Stern

The Mind of God
Paul Davies

Wisdom of the Buddha
F. Max M ller

Why I Am Not A Christian
Bertrand Russell

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword
John Whiteside Parsons

Strange Angel
George Pendle

Intelligence, Race, and Genetics
Frank Miele

Because He Could
Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
Rupert Sheldrake

Women Astronomers
Mabel Armstrong

Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Nature of a Liberal College
Henry M. Wriston

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus

About Faces
Terry Landau

The Meaning of Masonry
W.L. Wilmshurst

The Celts
Frank Delany

When Character Was King
Peggy Noonan

2012
Mark Borax

Rosslyn
Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins

Stonehenge
Julian Richards

The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine

High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ann Coulter

Ellis Island
Pamela Reeves

Old Path White Clouds
Thich Nhat Hanh

A History of the Arab Peoples
Albert Hourani

The Mummy
Joyce Tyldesley

Wine For Dummies
Ed McCarthy & Mary Ewing-Mulligan

A Chronicle History of Forts and Fortresses
Martin Brice

Blake
Peter Ackroyd

Our Visit To Israel
Emmanuel Dehan

Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman

Personal Mythology
David Feinstein & Stanley Krippner

What Would Buddha Do?
Franz Metcalf

The Cerebral Symphony
William H. Calvin

Art Is a Way of Knowing
Pat B. Allen

The Four Agreements Companion Book
Don Miguel Ruiz & Janet Mills

The Gurdjieff Work
Kathleen Riordan Speeth

Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow
Marsha Sinetar

Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain
Dr. Elio Frattaroli

American Indian Stories
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin / Zitkala-Sa

About Time
Paul Davies

The Art of Leadership
J. Donald Walters

The Secret Services Handbook
Michael Bradley

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
Friar Diego de Landa

Kabbalah
Perle Epstein

Killing The Buddha
Jeff Sharlet & Peter Manseau

Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain
Dr. Euan W. MacKie

Mystery of the Nile
Richard Bangs & Pasquale Scaturro

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Blake

The Revolution
Ron Paul

Beyond Stonehenge
Gerald S. Hawkins

1066: The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth

Return from Death
Margot Grey

Comic Insights
Franklyn Ajaye

The Way Things Ought to Be
Rush Limbaugh

Decoding the Universe
Charles Seife

Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg

The Book Of Lies
Aleister Crowley

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams

Jump Start Your Brain
Doug Hall

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).

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781573534086
ISBN 10	1573534080
Title	Btripp Books - 2008
Author	Brendan Tripp
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eschaton Books
Year published	2016-10-10
Number of pages	194
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.