Background
Glaysher, Frederick was born on February 9, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Much of The Grove of the Eumenides forms the background study for Glaysher's epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, which he discusses in a new 2015 Preface. Twenty years in the making, The Grove of the Eumenides invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing postmodern conceptions of life and literature that have become firmly entrenched in contemporary world culture. East and West meet in a new synthesis of a global vision of humankind ranging over classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and non-Western, from the dilemmas of modernity in Yeats, Eliot, Milosz, Bellow, Dostoevsky, to Lu Xun, Ryuichi Tamura, Kenzaburo Oe, Naguib Mahfouz, R. K. Narayan, among others, from mimesis and deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature. Clearly the work of a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first century. All the muck and glory of American and international experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind struggling with itself and its Age. Acutely perceptive of the spiritual and moral nuances of literature, criticism, and culture, Glaysher confronts the loss of religious faith in the modern world and breaks through to a vision of the unity of the human longing for transcendence.
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(Fifteen years in the making, overturning the nihilism of ...)
Fifteen years in the making, overturning the nihilism of Nietzsche, moving beyond Postmodernism, Peter Marsh, an academic philosopher, weighs modern life in a conversation with his friend, David Emerson, a businessman. Brought together after long separation by the brutal murder of Mary, Peter's wife, a time of devastating loss and crisis, their friendship inspires a dark night of the soul, during which Peter's meditations range over several hundred years of philosophy, politics, religion, social change, the dilemmas of existence, evoking a vision of the complexities of the 21st Century, the United Nations, and global governance. Structured around classical Greek choral movements, the first section engages with themes from Japanese Buddhism, while the second and third survey Western philosophy from Aristotle and Plato through Descartes, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and others, in a powerfully dramatic grappling with philosophy, East and West.
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Glaysher, Frederick was born on February 9, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Bachelor in General Studies, University of Michigan, 1980; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1981.
Instructor English Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan, 1982-1983, Illinois State University, Normal, 1983-1986, Arizona Western College/Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation, Parker, 1990-1992. Instructor creative writing Mohave Community College, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1991-1992. Instructor non-western literature and English Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois, 1992-1994.
Instructor multicultural literature Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, since 1994. Participant Fulbright-Hays Group Project, China, 1994, National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar on India, 1995, United Nations Millennium Forum, 2000.
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Public speaker, supporter Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, 2006. Founder Reform Bahai Faith, 2004.