Spirit Garden

On SPIRIT GARDEN:

In Spirit Garden, poet-scholar-playwright Joe Martin sings ecstatically of the
One, the hidden integrity of opposites & the living mystery of existence. He not
only fuses Sufi, Buddhist & Jewish paths in a troubadours transcendence both
timeless & time-bound, his thirty poems share the page with Enrique Castanons
haunting figures which shift foreground and background to meta-illustrate the
gestalt of Martins vision.


Kirpal Gordon, author, Giant Steps Press blog

On FOREIGNERS:

"[An] absurdist mind grenade... Joe Martin's first novel paints this neo-European
shadow landscape with panache a gifted American writer."

Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle

On RUMIS MATHNAVI: A Stage Adaptation

Absolutely remarkable and memorable lifting the veils one after another.
Lida Saeedian, co-translator of The Pocket Rumi

On PARABOLA: SHORTER FICTIONS

...through the tightly structured geometry of this metaphorically rich [work is a]
recognition of the search we undertake to fi x a place for ourselves and try to
make sense of a confusing, alienating and often combative world.
Cheryl Pallant, High Performance