Unscrambled Thoughts – A Poetic Journey, is a collection of emotions translated through poetry. A compilation of 50 poems that intended to help channel feelings and thus untangling thoughts. Hence the title. The motive of the poems in the book is to do the same to new readers. These poems will either give readers a feeling of sweet release or keep them captive for a long time through the power of words. From “Silent Screams” to “Call you mine” the poems are set to take its readers on a rollercoaster ride of emotions and nostalgia. While there’s no standard theme for this book, the individual poems bring the entire book together.

The poems, songs, and letters described and written in this, the Awesome Oak volume by Vance, refer to people, places, or events either experienced by or known to the author. All accountings are true. Some, however, may be blessed with flavor and color, or flair, if you will. Those will be left to the individual readers interpretation or discretion. There has been no intent to mislead or wrongly inform during the assembling of this volume.

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All she wants is security: The last place finishing school instructor Mrs. Jane Munroe belongs, is in polite Society. Vowing to never wed, she’s been scuttled around from post to post. Now she finds herself in the Marquess of Waverly’s household. She’s never met a nobleman she liked, and when she meets the pompous, arrogant marquess, she remembers why. But soon, she discovers Gabriel is unlike any gentleman she’s ever known. All he wants is a companion for his sister: What Gabriel finds himself with instead, is a fiery spirited, bespectacled woman who entices him at every corner and challenges his age-old vow to never trust his heart to a woman. But…there is something suspicious about his sister’s companion. And he is determined to find out just what it is. All they need is each other: As Gabriel and Jane confront the truth of their feelings, the lies and secrets between them begin to unravel. And Jane is left to decide whether or not it is ever truly safe to love a lord.

“The way to point to the existence of the universe is to see one thing directly and clearly and describe it. . . . If you see something as a symbol of something else, then you don't experience the object itself, but you're always referring it to something else in your mind. It's like making out with one person and thinking about another.” —Ginsberg speaking to his writing class at Naropa Institute, 1985 With “Howl” Allen Ginsberg became the voice of the Beat Generation. It was a voice heard in some of the best-known poetry of our time—but also in Ginsberg’s eloquent and extensive commentary on literature, consciousness, and politics, as well as his own work. Much of what he had to say, he said in interviews, and many of the best of these are collected for the first time in this book. Here we encounter Ginsberg elaborating on how speech, as much as writing and reading, and even poetry, is an act of art. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee on LSD in 1966; gently pressing an emotionally broken Ezra Pound in a Venice pensione in 1967; taking questions in a U.C. Davis dormitory lobby after a visit to Vacaville State Prison in 1974; speaking at length on poetics, and in detail about his “Blake Visions,” with his father Louis (also a poet); engaging William Burroughs and Norman Mailer during a writing class: Ginsberg speaks with remarkable candor, insight, and erudition about reading and writing, music and fame, literary friendships and influences, and, of course, the culture (or counterculture) and politics of his generation. Revealing, enlightening, and often just plain entertaining, Allen Ginsberg in conversation is the quintessential twentieth-century American poet as we have never before encountered him: fully present, in pitch-perfect detail.

The events of which you are about to read, the latest of the strange happenings that befell me, started with a meeting in a country house north-west of London on the night of the 7th of January, 1984. I had made a phone call to a former friend and colleague of mine and he had agreed, after his initial surprise at receiving my call, to meet me. Knowing of the high position he held I had hinted of things of international importance...

His journey began when he became consciously aware that he was walking on a road that ran through the inside of a dark, strange-looking cave. He has no memory of how he arrived inside this place or where he was before he appeared there. He is forced to move through this journey by an invisible force compelling him to move forward. With each one of these forcible footsteps that he has taken on this road, he senses the road is alive and is trying to prevent him from reaching the end of the journey by playing tricks on his mind with realistic illusion. But as he goes forward, he enters into the unconscious world of a new reality that is sending him telepathic messages, full of unbelievable knowledge and energy as he moves through this living cave that breathes.