Personified - Volume 1

A collection of classic rhyming verse built around the concept of Personification — giving life & form & voice & breath to philosophical concepts & virtues.

Individual pieces include: Outlaw Time & his love of beautiful Nature … flourishing, lavish Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy … the fierce collision of Time & Truth …  Justice's blind eyes, eager ears & tepid aid … tobogganing down treacherous Ignorance … collecting & gathering Strength in odd places … lifting & carrying backbreaking Dreams … How Alcohol is no lady — & certainly not your friend … the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom … the timeless relationship between Death & Beauty (& more).

Includes 22 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Titian, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser, Eglon van Der Neer, Jacob & Joris Hoefnagel, Jules de Bruycker, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Venanci Vallmitjana & the Supreme Court of Canada.

Also includes wisdom & insight from:

Martin Luther

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

John Updike

Mos Def

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tennessee Williams

William Carlos Williams

D.H. Lawrence

Lee Xiaolong

the Book of Isaiah

Jim Stands

the Book of Isaiah

Eleanor Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Alexander Pope

Mother Teresa

the Dalai Lama

Meryl Streep

J.R.R. Tolkien

Maya Angelou

e.e. cummings

Mark Twain

Michel de Montaigne

Jimi Hendricks

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Thucydides

Henry Ford

Kurt Vonnegut

Louis Pasteur

DeWitt Clinton

Calvin Coolidge

Augustus Hare

Derek Bok

Margaret Fuller

Jay-Z

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leonardo da Vinci

Marcus Garvey

Plato

Ralph W. Sockman

Stephen Hawking

Kofi Annan

Avery Brooks

James Madison

John Milton

Jim Morrison

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Horace

Homer

Wallace Stevens

Walt Whitman

J.R.R. Tolkien

Edgar Allen Poe

Henry David Thoreau

Virginia Woolf