Books published by Cloudbank Creations

Lewis Turco, Professor Emeritus of English Writing Arts, is perhaps the most widely respected poet-scholar in the United States. He took his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University. Lewis Turco's classic THE BOOK OF FORMS: A HANDBOOK OF POETICS has been called "the poet's Bible" since its original publication in 1968. Turco has won many awards, including the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986 and the John Ciardi Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. This volume is a collection of essays by some this nation's leading poets, presented in honor of Dr. Turco's retirement in 1996. Tributes from students are also included in this Festschrift.

Rules of Hunger is a "soul-satisfying" debut collection of poems which creates a "mosaic of hard joy for the noble gestures and honorable lives" of one Italian-American family with its "legacy of sorrow as well as humor."

Intuition Made Easy is a helpful guide to exploring and improving intuition skills. Its author, Carol Ann Liaros has been conducting private intuitive consultations, teaching, and lecturing for nearly four decades. She has designed innovative, creative techniques known as "The Liaros Method" of instruction, which incorporate her expertise in the use of specific PSI-metric tools. These methods are widely used today by thousands of past workshop attendees to facilitate accurate psychic answers. She has been featured on hundreds of television and radio shows as well as in numerous newspaper articles. Carol Ann also appeared in the movie Inner Spaces, narrated by Edgar Mitchell, the 6th astronaut to walk on the moon. In addition, she hosted her own radio and television shows for several years. Because of Ms.. Liaros' ability to predict the future at an accuracy rate of 93%-97%, numerous corporations have, with her psychic assistance, benefitted in decision-making with acquisitions, mergers, personnel placement and future planning. She has conducted workshops for medical and mental health professionals as well as for clergy and spiritual growth centers. For over 16 years Carol Ann has been a regular instructor at the Association For Research and Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce Center). Her innovative work with the blind, showing them how to use their psychic ability to become more mobile and more independent, has been featured in many books and newswpaper articles. With an on-going interest in the practical application of intuition, Carol Ann continues to help people explore how they can use their abilities in everyday life.

The AZC's of Self-Esteem is based upon the premise that we can begin now, day by day, to better live our lives, that it is possible to change negative feelings and behavior by recognizing the source of our problems, by focusing our thinking and realizing solutions. Non-productive feelings can be changed. Positive attitudes that lead to knowing oneself and to enlightened self-esteem are a natural outcome. Strategies and exercises are presented to attain these goals Born in New York City, Alice Zacharias Castner is now living in Pittstown, New Jersey, and Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband. They have three children and seven grandchildren. After receiving her doctorate from the University of Maryland, following years were spent as a professor at Farleigh Dickinson University and as one of the founders of their Graduate Center for Human Development.

Nobody wants to be a Nobody. Everybody wants to be a Somebody. The difference between a Nobody and a real Somebody is esteem: for self and others. "Fix the blame, not the problem" is an Old World's bureaucratic response, so we have Wars on Drugs, Poverty, Terrorism, Cancer, and other dis-eases, rather than humane responses to human beings' cries for help in a left-brained, numbers-oriented, technology-driven, transnational and domestic terrorist-ridden world. Today's World of drugs, crime, violence, disrespect for self and others, revenge, greed, and conspicuous consumption means people's cries are cries for their basic needs for love, respect, dignity, safety, belonging, and meaning, and/or a roof over their heads and food on the table. Could it be that there is something wrong with a society that promotes a steady diet of "more: " negativity, violence, prescription drugs, and plastic/fast food? Should our government's Titanicism, Corporate America's "big is better," and regimented educational systems be charged with contributory negligence? Shall we continue to blame the victims? HEALING THE TERRORIST WITHIN! reminds us that words lipped but not lived reveal esteem's status, that esteem is missing when the age-old battle for human minds, bodies, emotions, and spirit perpetuates fear, dogma, a dislike of the unlike, and war, and that our society does not honor all human cultures and intelligences (including right-brained emotional intelligence) and individuals' uniqueness. The human brain's plasticity means we, the people, can make a difference in our own and in others' lives when we heal the intimate and other domestic terrorists residing within and/or outside us who silence, betray, undermine, abuse, or destroy us; they are as dangerous as the transnational terrorists. We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge, understand, or work on. Without self-knowledge, we accept reactive, victim, or status quo mindsets, for we do not see people and things as they are

One of America's strongest younger contemporary poets makes a cogent attempt to pursue nothing less than a paradigm shift beyond post-modernity, beyond the post-structural, taking into account the metaphysical and philosophical paradigms which came before, dramatizing the individual and collective human quest for vision, voice, verity.