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Short Poems: Readers
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By the time Fairwood Press was readying the print edition of his ultra short poems, Arnzen was already at work on 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories (2004). A Stoker finalist, the book earned raves from readers at Amazon.com and from critics at the usual genre-related websites. The book is currently available in trade paperback and ebook editions, but an attempt to make the individual stories available though a new venue that Arnzen calls the ‘Sickolodeon’ has meet with some initial problems.
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Sri Chinmoy has written countless short poems which express in small portion part of his spiritual philosophy. Sri Chinmoy has never written a complete overview of his philosophical viewpoint. In some ways his prolific output of prose and poetry give a glimpse into the potential limitless expression of spirituality. Each poem and aphorism adds to the depth of spiritual philosophy. At the same time the poems are purposefully short and concise helping the reader to meditate on the message of the poems.
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Initially, the project was intended to provide readers with short poems that could be read on handheld PDA readers. He was certainly not the first to make literature available for such devices, but while others publishers such as NuvoMedia, SoftBook and a variety of Web-based companies were charging readers for longer material that was already available in print (Hillesund), Arnzen’s set about producing a series of original short poems, which he called gorelets, written specially to fit on the screen of a PDA reader, no scrolling required. As Arnzen tells it:
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