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American Poet and Educationist David Austell's reading focused on his just published book, Tin Man at I-House, Columbia University, Jan 29, 2019<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Tin Man, </i>by distinguished American poet and educationist, David B. Austell, is a moving homage to a little known but charismatic figure in the Christian biblical narratives, Saint Joseph of Arimathea. Completed after six years of research and writing, The book is based on a myriad of primary and secondary source materials including canonical texts, apocrypha, religious traditions, church history, medieval literature, and folklore. <i>The Tin Man </i>is a grand narrative poem in epic style regarding the key intersections of Joseph of Arimathea’s life both with Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Palestine and with the strange and charismatic Jesus of Nazareth. The poem explores the experiences of a dramatically flawed man and the transmutation of his inner being in the presence of the Numinous.In the final analysis,<i> The Tin Man </i>explores the life-changes that transform an arrogant and troubled expatriate into a Christian saint, missionary, evangelist, and church leader.<i> The Tin Man</i> is the epic song of Joseph of Arimathea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />The Tin Man</em>, by distinguished American poet and educationist, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David B. Austell</strong>, is a moving homage to a little known but charismatic figure in the Christian biblical narratives, Saint Joseph of Arimathea. Completed after six years of research and writing, The Tin Man is based on a myriad of primary and secondary source materials including canonical texts, apocrypha, religious traditions, church history, medieval literature, and folklore. The Tin Man is a grand narrative poem in epic style regarding the key intersections of Joseph of Arimathea’s life both with Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Palestine, and with the strange and charismatic Jesus of Nazareth. The poem explores the experiences of a dramatically flawed man, and the transmutation of his </span>inner being in the presence of the Numinous.</div>
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Joseph of Arimathea appears as a key figure in the “passion narratives,” those sections of the four Christian Gospels that focus on the trial and death of Jesus in Jerusalem immediately prior to the celebration of the Jewish Passover in 33 A.D. It is here that we learn of Joseph’s status in the community as a wealthy man, a secret follower of Jesus, and a member of the high council of Jerusalem. It is also here that we read of Joseph’s unenviable task in the interment of the maverick rabbi who many believed to be the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. In the apocryphal gospels and later writings, Joseph’s influential role in the early years of the Christian Church is brought to light. For the first time, we are introduced to Joseph of Arimathea as a member of the Davidian royal family, the uncle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the great-uncle of Jesus. Later in the Vulgate, Joseph is referred to as NobilisDecurio (Noble Decurion). Thereafter he becomes the Roman citizen, the provincial Senator, and the legendary Roman superintendent of tin mining operations in the southwestern shires of England. In the final analysis, The Tin Man explores the life-changes that transform an arrogant and troubled expatriate into a Christian saint, missionary, evangelist, and church leader.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Tin Man is the epic song of Joseph of Arimathea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">“</span>The figure of Joseph of Arimathea has always been dear to English hearts because of the age-old tradition, linked not only with Cornwall but also with Glastonbury, that he</em></span><i> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">traveled<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> here himself…Anyone reading this work will feel a great debt of gratitude to David Austell…The writing is full of music and it is music that leads us to the amazing figure of ‘The Tin Man’ so that we journey with him through history as pilgrims.”</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>-from</i><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> t<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he Introduction</span> </span><i>by</i><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i> </i><b><i>the Very Reverend Dr. Robert A. Willis,</i></b><i> Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, England</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">David B. Austell, Ph.D. is Associate Provost and Director of the International Students and Scholars Office at Columbia University in New York City where he is also an Associate Professor of International Education in Teachers College-Columbia University (adjunct). David has over thirty years of executive leadership experience in International Education, and is a frequent writer and presenter in his professional field. David has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education, focusing on International Education. His doctoral dissertation, The Birds in the Rich Forest, concerned Chinese students in the United States during the Student Democracy Movement. David was a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and Korea in 1992. He is also a poet, and The Tin Man is his third book.</span></span></div>
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Nirala Publicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914373887500502447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7297498598571397449.post-67532895856259629242016-03-17T09:24:00.000-07:002016-03-17T09:40:19.905-07:00The Tin Man by David B Austell: A Short Introduction to the upcoming book in the Nirala Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tin Man</em>,by distinguished American poet and educationist, David B. Austell, is a very moving homage to a little known but charismatic figure in the Christian biblical narratives, Saint Joseph of Arimathea.</div>
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Completed after five years of research and writing, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tin Man</em> is the poet’s <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">magnum opus</em>.Based on meticulous research in myriad source materials including archaeology, alchemy, religious texts, scrolls and murals, poetry and private writings, Austell conceives a grand narrative poem in epic style regarding the key intersections of Joseph of Arimathea’s life both with Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Palestine, and with the strange and charismatic Jesus of Nazareth. The poem explores the experiences of a dramatically flawed man, and the transmutation of his inner being in the presence of the Numinous.</div>
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Joseph of Arimathea appears as a key figure in the “passion narratives,” those sections of the four Christian Gospels that focus on the trial and death of Jesus in Jerusalem immediately prior to the celebration of the Jewish Passover in 33 A.D. It is here that we learn of Joseph’s status in the community as a wealthy man, a secret follower of Jesus, and a member of the high council of Jerusalem. It is also here that we read of Joseph’s unenviable task in the interment of the maverick rabbi who many believed to be the Son of the Living God. In the apocryphal gospels and later writings, Joseph’s influential role in the early years of the Christian Church is brought to light. For the first time, we are introduced to Joseph of Arimathea as a member of the Davidian royal family, the uncle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the great-uncle of Jesus. Later in the Vulgate, Joseph is referred to as the NobilisDecurio (Noble Decurion). Thereafter he becomes the Roman citizen, provincial Senator, and the legendary Roman superintendent of tin mining operations in the southwestern shires of England. In the final analysis, Austell writes of the life-changes that transform an arrogant and troubled man into a Christian saint, missionary, evangelist, and church leader.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tin Man</em> is Joseph of Arimathea’s epic song. As the reader turns the pages, he will find a grand modern day classic which can be read as biography or eclectic rhapsody, either of which demonstrate a vital and visionary saga of great mystery and shared humanity.</div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">transformed like metal dug from the earth, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">mixed and melted, transmuted by time </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">unloosed like a desert wild-man upon my life, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">altered not by obscure incantations</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">murmured over steaming bronze, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">but by words of calm, set alight and bursting </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">like Greek Fire upon my heart, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">changed by love.</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Like all the
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">who scratch the soil of Britain for the dull sift of tin, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I have been a plain and common sort,</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">a spirit often heavy as grey ingots of white lead, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">dirty with the dust of vocation.</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I have led rough and ignorant men</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">whose respect I earned by strength of will, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">myself a man under authority</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">beneath the brute Roman sign of Mars.</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Like them I was a tin miner </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">in the Jews’ town of Britain, </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">a Tinner of Bojewyan. </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I have been many
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">but most all these have washed away over time</span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">like the sluicing of ore from the river beds of Cornwall. </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="A3"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">One thing I have never been is… </span></span><span style="color: #221f1f; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">The Tin Man<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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hearts because of the age-old tradition, linked not only with Cornwall but also
with Glastonbury, that he travelled here himself…Anyone reading this work will
feel a great debt of gratitude to David Austell…The writing is full of music
and it is music that leads us to the amazing figure of ‘The Tin Man’ so that we
journey with him through history as pilgrims.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are lit with primary passion, which is everything, of course.”</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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account of Joseph of Arimathea. David Austell weaves prose and poetry,
history and imagination, humor and gravity into an exquisite, seamless story
that is both fascinating and a pleasure to read. David’s craft of poetry and prose here is
exquisite. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theology, history, epic, meditation, and engagement with large ideas. It’s a wonderful book and unlike any other
I’ve ever read.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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marvelous read introduces you to the saint evolved from a lifetime of
adventures as a soldier, senator and merchant.
David Austell’s tantalizing tale, pulled from the mists of time, places
flesh-and-blood on one of the central, but little known characters in the
chronicles of Jesus Christ. These
incomparable, extraordinary narrative-poems shed a light on the heretofore
unexplored Joseph of Arimathea as a man who sought an ordinary existence but
came to believe and live the missionary life of The Way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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