This short collection of evocative poems is designed to be read in one sitting.
It is in two parts.
In the first section are concise reflections on situations, memories, ideas, and moods.
The second section is a short cycle of poems dealing with the visits the author paid to the dark-surrealist painter Leo Murphy in Baltimore, Maryland.
The collection as a whole is a glimpse at the intersection where real and imaginary worlds collide, like sculpted meditations on the shock of existence.
Dick Turner is a composer, writer and artist.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and now lives in Paris, France.
“Chess is life.” – Bobby Fisher
Fisher Random and Associated Essays discusses a wide range of interwoven themes. The centerpiece is the essay on Fisher Random, Bobby Fisher’s stroke of genius which, according to the author, was Fisher’s “last and greatest move”; indeed, the greatest move in the history of chess with implications extending far beyond the game of chess.
Other essays cover topics ranging from artificially aged blue jeans and music theory to the usefulness of self-deception and the impossibility of being an individual.
Written in a clear, entertaining and concise style, Fisher Random and Associated Essays is above all a book of ideas which combines subtle humor with interpretation and social observation.
New Math
by Dick Turner
New Math is a sequence of stories written over a thirty-year period by the expatriate American composer/artist/painter Dick Turner. Illustrated with original drawings by the author they combine observation, fantasy and subtle human analyses with poetry and humor: Imagine Charles Baudelaire and Hans Christian Anderson having a beer with Frederic Brown at Edgar Allen Poe’s house.Whether dealing with an urgent midnight call to a plumber, the martyrdom of a thirteenth century saint, the burning desire of a shop-keeper to be King, the demise of Moby Dick on a Southern California beach or the constructive uses of pain New Math will keep the reader curious, thinking and turning the pages.Turner, who has been living in Paris for the last 25 years, was born and lived for a great deal of his life in Baltimore, Maryland — a city both fabled and notorious for its having produced over the years a constant flow of strangely original voices. New Math is no exception. In these stories Turner is true both to his city of origin and his new home for they combine street-level American clear-thinking with a certain European Gothic fantasy.The perfect book for traveling, beaches, hospital waiting rooms and PhD dissertations!
