Poetry. "PORTABLE PLANET is a marvelous book. I've been following Shaffer's work for years and he is on a definitive upward spiral"-Jim Harrison. "Graced by the best from the past, the poet wanders. His poems will take you to places you need to visit"-Steve Sanfield. "Eric Paul Shaffer's poems carry us ever inward and out, where particular stones sprout wings, where solid ground is shaken by the nimble fingers of small gods, and the normal everyday ways of life stay blessedly themselves. These poems are portable, they're the exact same size as the hip pocket of your mind"-John Kain.

Poetry. "How wonderful to discover these lost works in the last leavings of the Twentieth Century. May their author continue to sweep the kitchens, the courtyards, the shrine halls of his always surprising mind. May we continue to share such delightful detritus. And may it continue to amount to nothing much at all. Thanks for the broom"--Bill Porter. "In LIVING IN THE MONASTERY, WORKING IN THE KITCHEN, Eric Paul Shaffer employs this discerning curmudgeon's voice with ironic understanding for those who may wish to pursue enlightenment but who must also work to live.... Companion volume to Shaffer's PORTABLE PLANET, this new book reveals Shih-te giving Eastern teachings an irreverent twist even as he disarms us with his struggle to attain a sense of purpose, place, and identity"--Cheri Crenshaw, Small Press Review.

This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation, the author develops the thesis that the relationships, networks, and intimate forms of social interaction in the “portable” community cultivated at bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations that shape participants’ relationships to their localities. With specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community identity, place, and action following devastating local floods that destroyed homes and businesses, displacing residents for years, The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and music in grappling with social and environmental change, including their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in symbolic interactionism, the sociology of music, culture, and the sociology of disaster.

"Planet Faeton" - Science-fiction history of revival of New Space Empire in Solar System, but with the real facts from Chronicles – as a full Destruction the Third Rome (Moscow) and a State Russia. To the lost planet the Phaeton, to the princess of Amidalu and Natasha Portamonov, and also the several quite terrestrial people who were lost at reception of data from files of Imperial Chronicles is devoted... If the author of this trilogy agents of a Zero people in black steal, all means really the truth..., Michael Nostrodamus has thought, - also has quickly glanced in the Internet, on a site http://www.planetfaeton.ru/sbonus.html

With the Stars is about those of us who will achieve greatness in making it to other worlds. When the main characters make it through the conflicts they run into, they will get to the planet of their choice. But they must remember it’s extremely difficult getting to that perfect planet. About the Author Daniel Louis Wagner writes books for your entertainment. His passion is writing for people who read books. He loves fantasy and science fiction. He grew up in Arizona and lived there for over forty years.

Lahaina Noon is not only a specific study of Maui, but a brilliant examination of a human's place in the cosmos. Eric Paul Shaffer's clear, sane, poems will help you understand where you are wherever you are. --Sara Backer.

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