Aberjhani's Books
May.15.2010
What began as Songs of the Angelic Gaze in the summer of 2006 continued the following year as The Bridge of Silver Wings, and developed even further two years after that into The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009. Whether readers describe it as a conversation between one author’s pen and his sense of an angel-populated cosmos, or a modern interpretation of literary voices such as Kahlil...
May.01.2009
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 is, technically, the fifth book of poetry by the Savannah, Georgia (USA) born author Aberjhani, whose previous titles in the genre are: I Made My Boy out of Poetry; Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black; The Bridge of Silver Wings; and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 firsrt earned a name for itself as a...
May.15.2008
ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love
ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (ISBN 0972114270) is a celebrated gift book by two acclaimed creative artists: painter Luther E. Vann, whose work was exhibited at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts throughout Summer 2008 in Savannah, Ga., followed by another exhibition through the fall at the I.P. Stanback Museum in...
May.01.2008
The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself.
Just like modern literary life, the book expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting...
Nov.01.2007
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World combines popular music culture, science fiction fantasy, and horror to create a uniquely engaging metaphysical epic. The story takes us inside the world of Danny Blue, a young man struggling to make peace with the death of his girlfriend, a gifted artist named Valerie Hyerman whose passing sparks the creation of a controversial spiritual...
May.17.2007
"The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South" had its official beginnings as a lecture called The Harlem Renaissance in Savannah delivered by author-poet Aberjhani on August 28, 2004, at the Carnegie Branch Library in Savannah, Georgia, to commemorate the re-opening of the library. The branch had been closed for some seven years following damage from a storm. A book signing...
Oct.01.2003
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the historian David Levering Lewis taken it upon himself to pen his Pulitzer Prize-winning double-volume biography of Du Bois, it is quite...
Sep.01.2003
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism, sexism, and political oppression of every kind, poets of the Harlem Renaissance...
Mar.20.1998
Containing six stories and fifty poems, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, by Savannah poet and author Aberjhani, was initially published by Washington Publications in 1998. The first cover featured an original oil painting by native New Orleans artist Gustave Blache III.
The stories and poems in I Made My Boy Out of Poetry were written from the early 1980s to the late 1990s....
Mar.16.1998
Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in the late 1990s. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the last decade because of the spotlight cast on it by a developing film industry within...
The process of writing evolves one's consciousness and transforms the aspiring writer into an individual that he or she never fully imagined becoming. ”
—Gale Contemporary Authors
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A native of Savannah, Georgia (USA) Aberjhani is a winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award for his journalism, the Choice Academic Title and Best History Book Awards for his historical writings, the Creative Loafing Critic’s Pick Best Savannah Author Award for...
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