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Books by Cliff
Chandler
The Paragons
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Devastated
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Vengeance Is Mine
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Chandler Bio
Author
Cliff Chandler was born in New York City during the
thirties, and spent part of his life in Macon, Georgia. His
father was a sailor from Barbados and wanted to send him to the
West Indies to be reared by his parents, that was the custom
during the thirties. His mother thought otherwise and sent him
to her parents in Georgia instead. Cliff returned to New York as
a teenager, attended school at night, and worked in various
occupations.
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Like
most artists he has worked as a taxi driver, Hospital Aide,
Paramedic, Professional Photographer Germain School of
Photography, Jazz Musician, The New Muse, Brooklyn,
NY, and editorial writer for a local newspaper. During the
sixties his career in Law Enforcement began. He was trained and
served as a Special Officer in the New York City Police
Department, but spent most of his time as a private detective.
While he claims the work was dull, his novel, gives us a
different view of what his life must have been like. He says
that he has been a writer all of his life, but his first taste
of success was with his high school newspaper, The Ballardite
in Macon, Georgia.
He likes to tell
everyone he has been everything but rich. We like to think that
his life's experiences proves him wrong.
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Books
available Amazon.com
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http://theparagons.homestead.com/paragons2.html
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Writer:
Writer for Big Red News,
Brooklyn, NY
Articles: Greensboro Murders, Who Will Lead Us,
The Howard Beach Massacre, The Slave Family,
Duke Ellington Month, and, De Mal En Pis (In Udder Pain), - 1983
Writer: Etcetera Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
Poem, Sunday school, and monthly articles 1967
Macon Courier, Child Crush, Macon, GA
Regional Director of Georgia Writers
Member of the Board of Directors
Editorial Staff
Columnist: Cliff notes.
Lectured at the following schools:
New Jersey Teacher's College, The Urban Community, 1975
Pratt Institute, Your Importance In The Community, 1978
The College Of New Rochelle, Talking Your Way To The Top, 1989
The Ledel Gallery, New York City, Photography As An Art, 1982
St. Peter Claver Catholic School, Macon, Georgia, Right and
Wrong, and knowing The Difference.
Photography Exhibits:
Group shows:
Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn 1963-1992
Bethany Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY
Carver Federal Bank, Brooklyn, NY
Black Arts Repertoire Theater, New York, NY
Amherst College, The Duke Ellington Festival
One Man Shows:
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
St. Peters Lutheran Church, New York, NY
Ledel Gallery, New York, NY
Tubman African- American Museum, Macon, GA
Middle Georgia College, Cochran, GA
Tubman African- American Museum traveling exhibit
Education:
Ballard Normal High School,
Macon, GA - NYS certified
Germain School of Photography, New York, NY
New York School of Radio Announcing, New York, NY
Certificate in Short Term Counseling, NYSDA, New York, NY
Matriculated student, Pratt Institute, Fine Arts Major
John Oliver Killen's Writer's Workshop, Medgar Evers College,
Brooklyn, NY
New York University, Fiction Writing and Fiction Writings
Masters Classes
The New School of Social Research, Line Editing.
The Muse, Brooklyn, NY Four Years of Jazz Studies
Books:
Chants, Rants, and
Raves, nominated for author of the year.
Self published, out of print copies at UGA, Athens, GA
The Paragons, published by Brittney Press
Publishing, Decatur, GA July 2000
Vengeance Is Mine, Published by, Writers Club
Press, San Jose New York Lincoln Shangai
December 2001
Photographs:
Cover: Duke Ellington In
Person
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
Work also in private collections, world wide.
Movie Appearances: Poet In New York 1992;Produced
by Angel Gilorrios;Narrated by Raul Julia
Published Poems:
Etcetera Magazine, Sunday school
Sparrow Grass Poetry Forum
Gypsy, and Drossy
Artist and Influences Used to Wuz
Hatch-Billops Collection, New York, NY
Musician:
Performed with The Muse
Orchestra, Brooklyn, NY 1976-1979, Saxophone-Clarinet.
Pub Dallas, Jazz Club, Madrid Spain 1976- 80- 83
Heart Hearted Hannah's Savannah Jazz Festival 1992, Alto sax
First Night Macon, New Years Performance 1993-94-95
Clarinet-Alto sax
Hannah's East, Savannah Jazz Festival 1995, Alto sax
The Cellar, Macon, GA
The Odyssey, Macon, GA
Moderator for:
Pane discussion on The Media's role in construction Identity in
the South
Middle Georgia College, Cochran, GA
Poetry readings:
All comers Poetry Slam, Facing South Festival, Middle Georgia
College, Cochran, GA
The Golden Bough Bookstore, Macon, GA
The Progressive Academy, Macon, GA
The Melvyn Williams Show, Cox Television, Macon, GA
Lamar Arts Festival, Barnesville, GA
Tubman African- American Museum, Macon, GA
Southeastern Flower Show, Atlanta GA
Ebony Speaks, WMAZ TV, Macon, GA
JAMU, Atlanta, GA
Guest of St.John Flynn on Morning Edition Georgia Public Radio
Guest of several book clubs in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina,
and Tennessee
Guest of Rachel English at WMAZ TV, Macon, Georgia
Guest of Jackie Cooper WPGA, Macon/ Perry, Georgia
Guest Mid Day, Carol Minn WMAZ TV, Macon, Georgia
Book signings at all Major Barnes & Noble stores in the
Southeast
Director of Feed Back at Barnes & Noble Macon, Georgia
Presenter Inman Middle School
11th Annual Writers Workshop
Atlanta, Georgia
Florida Writers Author Event
Walden Books, Tampa, Florida
Panelist:
Kori Public Library;
Jacksonville, Florida
Lecture:
Barnes & Noble
Fayetteville, GA
Writing, Publishing, and Preparation.
Cliff Chandler
2492 Tredway Drive
Macon, GA 31211
478/745-0091
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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