"Jamaican by Birth American by Choice" & "Brackets"

The book continues to be well received. I have had launch events in Jamaica (Kingston), Canada (Brampton, Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener) and the U.S. (Orlando, Florida; Washington D.C.; Bronx & Brooklyn, New York.  I am including here one of the most recent and moving comments about the book, courtesy of Jamaican Dr. Angela Gallimore, practicing Barister and former College Professor:

Some books contain very interesting content but are poorly written.  Other books are very well written but their content is not intrinsically interesting.  Your book has been giving me the double pleasure of reading truly interesting content expressed in beautiful language.  Better yet, you manage to be cerebral without being a bore. Well done!

If you have not yet read the book this latest review may just convince you to do so.

Future book events are planned for Fort Lauderdale & Miami in Florida later in the year and in the U.K. in 2012.

In the meantime I have e-published a book of poems titled Brackets. A number of the poems appears in Jamaican by Birth American by Choice. The book is available on Amazon at Kindle Books and Barnes & Noble at Pubit which allows download to the other eBook, the Nook. The hard copy will be available later in the year. I include below a summary of the main thrust of Brackets:

(Brackets) .........addresses a number of perplexing existential issues. These include questions surrounding patriotism and citizenship, the possibility of nuclear catastrophe and attempts to understand the self and our shared existence. In the end, and not surprisingly, there appears to be many more questions than answers. In some inexplicable way however, some questions are themselves clearly suggestive of the very answers they seek. The relationship between our questions and answers is as direct as the relationship between our choices and their consequences.

We may deny but cannot avoid the inescapability of choice and consequence. These are the brackets within which we all live our lives. We are presented with innumerable choices. These choices and their inevitable, attending consequences create numerous, often obscure, alternative personal futures for all of us. Absent choice and consequence, we become robots with no will of our own. On this basis, good and evil, morality, law, justice and salvation, without exception, become at best moot and at worst invalid.

Even if you are not a lover of poetry I hope that your natural curiosity about the subjects the poems address will pique your interest enough to make you want to wander through the pages of Brackets.