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andala's Journal
"These are the moments that transcend mediocrity" - Magritte
Created on 2002-07-26 12:55:59 (#645131), last updated 2008-11-26
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Basic Info| Name: | the happy wanderer |
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| Birthdate: | 04-19 |
| Location: | New York, New York, United States |
| Website: | The Siren's Clef |
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andala@livejournal.com BioAndala was born outside Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 1998 where he now lives with his wife, muse, and mythic personage, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
minn (womaninthemoon.org), who is an illustrator and photographer. They also have a home in Mumbai, India.
He has been a photographer since 1994 and has been a software architect for nearly as long. A childhood obsession with world mythologies grew into a lifelong study of metaphysics, philosophy, and religion. His main interest is Advaita Vedanta, with additional focus on Hermeticism, Alchemy, Traditionalism, Buddhism, and Greek Philosophy. All his life he has been an author, starting with elaborate storytelling before he knew how to write. Andala is now a prolific writer, producing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays.
Andala has been a LiveJournal member since July of 2002.
This journal is a mixture of friends-only and public posts.
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~ pani aur aag ka hava me sangam ~
minn (womaninthemoon.org), who is an illustrator and photographer. They also have a home in Mumbai, India.He has been a photographer since 1994 and has been a software architect for nearly as long. A childhood obsession with world mythologies grew into a lifelong study of metaphysics, philosophy, and religion. His main interest is Advaita Vedanta, with additional focus on Hermeticism, Alchemy, Traditionalism, Buddhism, and Greek Philosophy. All his life he has been an author, starting with elaborate storytelling before he knew how to write. Andala is now a prolific writer, producing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays.
Andala has been a LiveJournal member since July of 2002.
 Coney Island, New York, 2005 photos by minn |  Home of Adi Śankaracharya, Kalady, India 2008 |
This journal is a mixture of friends-only and public posts.
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My book of surrealist poetry, Mythopoeia, is available for purchase online ($5). More information and sample poems >> |
| Review of Mythopoeia: Both the Symbolist poets and the Surrealist movement set out to wage war on logic, linearity, and reality. Poet Alexander Romanovich takes up the charge with his first book of poetry, "Mythopoeia." This brief volume is filled with startling, wonderful images, neologisms, and portmanteau words that soar off the page. Infused with the amorphous logic of dreams, and an adherence to texture makes this not so much a book of poems as much as a book of spells. In spite of the obscurantism rampant in these pages, there is a crystalline clarity to the moods that Romanovich evokes. Rather than dwelling on darkness, the author creates complex images full of luminous tranquility. Romanovich’s work arises from the same hallowed ground that gave birth to the glossolalia of such musicians as Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins and Lisa Gerrard (an admitted influence—a poem here is even entitled "Yulunga"). -- Craig Laurance Gidney, author/critic | |
~ pani aur aag ka hava me sangam ~
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