A YEAR OF FIVE MINUTES
Marianne Press
120 pages
Hard Cover
Amazon Books
REVIEWS
A year of Five Minutes is a testament of time - the ineluctable flow of time - and the tenderness of consciousness. This is a demanding and commanding work of concept art. I'm impressed by how dramatically the author fuses the prosaic (dealing with Lowe's, for example, a truly poignant example) and the efficacy of the sublime (alchemical cleansing). The concept artistically developed in these pages is consciousness, specifically the quality of consciousness mindful of our collective suffering. It's difficult to read without being subducted into the planetary transformation underway, which roils on every page, in most of the five minute intervals, as intimate experiences of the Self refracted in spacetime - the morphing earthscape of our afflicted time. In these entries, we experience a kaleidoscope of spirit and matter twirling through mandala swirls of daily events, moody eruptions, and self-insights. I admire how the author focuses all of this into the final statements about personhood in our pandemic season after the encounter with the Rude Dude: "Was he a messenger whose tsk-tsk-ing was really saying stop this fear of your own death?" Oh yes. The beauty the author captures with her lyrical observations of this dire time through which we are passing indeed reminds us, "The stars know the soul will never die." — A.A. Attanasio, author of The Radix Tetrad
5.0 out of 5 stars, Soul and brain food!
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An astonishing mix of prose and poetry, I find myself
stopping to savor sentences and imagery every single page... dollying between
the banality and beauty of the here and now and the inward journey to the
crucible of thought, value, being and consciousness. A sincere, humble and
genuine work laced with humor and grace. A must read for anyone interested in
climbing out of the box, if only for a moment!
