Songs of a Psychic Seahorse
Stephen Roxborough
About the Author
Stephen Roxborough is the middle of three children.
What are the odds of his older brother growing up to be the world’s foremost oddsmaker and his younger brother a Catholic Mormon?
He was raised by his Canadian father, business executive, and age group swim coach, and his American mother who made whipped wax candles, fabric angels, award-winning quilts, and 14 different kinds of Christmas cookies. They were married 64 years.
His Canadian grandfather graduated as far as grade 8, yet became Chairman of the Toronto Board of Education. His American grandfather was an inventor for Bell Telephone, and secretly wanted to become a minister.
The author raised two boys from diapers to high school. He knows there’s no retirement from parenting, and works at writing, photography, and being a better father.
Former kid, current codger, Stephen Roxborough has learned a few things and survived the plotline to come back with another collection of Beat-infused jazz-smoked-hymnblast-meditations, and rants on the lost arts of patience, with all the vacillations, and ambivalences of aging.
—Geoff Inverarity, author of All the Broken Things
ISBN 979-8-9858336-5-2
140 pages
$16.95
5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound, paper
Excerpt
foreword:
all 46 exquisite varieties
of the pipefish family known as
seahorse
belong to the genus
hippocampus
ancient greek for horse (hippos)
& sea monster (kampos)
the hippocampus is also a small
multi-layered region of the human brain
in the shape of a seahorse
embedded deep in the folds
of temporal lobe
the hippocampus
plays a major role in learning
memory and the regulation
of behaviors needed for survival:
feeding fighting & sex
hippocampus is also crucial
for long-term memory formation
& retrieval
the psychic seahorse sings new songs
of innocence & experience
depicting the practical & mystical overlap
of both
how teacher becomes student
& the perpetual looping after-effects
of quantum entanglement
Reviews
“Stephen Roxborough’s canticles on the modern family, deliver a knock-out punch to the phrase "Boomer Remover." We are here to stay: in your DNA, the family china and this unforgettable litany that weaves generations, the warp and woof of family love in all its ugly beautiful permutations.”
—Linda Rogers, Milton Acorn People's Poet, Victoria Poet Laureate, and Great-Grandmother
“deeplee insiteful rapid fire brillyans combind with wundrful compassyun songs of a psychic seahorse will bring childrn n theyr siblings much mor 2gethr n with theyr parents who will also find it supr helpful in sew manee wayze 2 b magik guidans 4 th continualee changing dilemmas uv self n familee diskovreez ths book has wit n wisdom”
—bill bissett, poet-painter-mystic-mentor-performer-experimenter and time-traveler
“Roxborough’s Songs of a Psychic Seahorse swirls through the Wordsworthian dictum, the child is father to the man, delivering a succulent blues of blood, mirrors, reflections, refractions, cycles and revisitations celebrating a Korzybskian sense of inter-generational time-binding.”
—Adeena Karasick, author of Salome: Woman of Valor
“Roxborough’s new book of poems, Songs of a Psychic Seahorse, teases and delights with lyrical dexterity. Spoken word, jazz riffs and an abundance of stunning internal rhymes coalesce into one sweet melody about the generational divide.”
—M.A.C. Farrant, author of One Good Thing–A Living Memoir and The Days Trilogy of miniature fiction
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