A political manifesto for a new Africa Love, Sex and Mathematics a new book by LM ARNAL Link: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/love-sex-and-mathematics-other-stories-and-the-un-kind-poems/15155363?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1 Thanks for supporting hard-working artists !!! Editorial Reviews Cosmic telepathy seems at work between native son James Baldwin of Harlem and native writer LM ARNAL of Europe across the fog of the half century. I can t help but hearing his echo in Arnal's latest work, as this precocious, peripatetic, biracial child of the flaming 1960s follows in his footsteps to confront the heart of darkness in the lower depth of white Europe and America. With the debut of ''Love Sex Mathematics and Other Stories,'' Arnal looms as a digital-age harbinger of the unfolding Obama century on a global scale. A poet of sustained outrage on myriads of social action fronts who dares the proposition that the dream of a child of the African Diaspora is as precious as that of a king, a queen and a president. Review "" ----K. W. Lee, Pioneer Asian American journalist / Commentator, Lecturer in Investigative Journalism, University of California Product Description This book is a compilation of works by LM ARNAL, ranging from science-fiction to poetry. Third World USA is the twilight journey of a young man that reminds us that misery is not always a foreign plague, but exists just behind our backyard. Brownstone takes the reader into the life of a wannabe who questions his life, after having lived it without a second thought. It also places love at the centre of healing human suffering. MetrOmpolis is a hypothetical expansion on what could become our lives, in the era of globalization. It is an unrestrained, imaginative piece, and not a science treaty. Love, Sex and Mathematics, is a romantic comedy that portrays immigrants in Western society. It is also an ode to women s sexuality and an attempt to describe why relationships fail. Lastly, a few Un-Kind Poems, celebrating love, sorrow, and freedom. WRITINGS BY MULTICULTURAL POET LM ARNAL RACISM IS A REFLEX Racism is a reflex blind yet methodic, that flexes its muscle perpetually over sunny people’s un-owned destiny adaptable, recyclable, while depending on the culture, the era, the rhetoric repackaged constantly in the same lame old flick moronic joke, or academic books racism is a reflex of thought every time you think me promiscuous, want me meek and subservient, as if my mind could not reflect the stars the assumption that we flirt when we’re just being friendly and are stupid for being too kind; or aggressive when we are just being assertive and defenders of our rights Racism is a reflex … your hand on my body, unwelcome, infuriating your bossing me around, up and down life’s slopes and rancor … of persistent behavior demeaning and simple, that wants you to ditch me the menial tasks, the ungrateful jobs; mainstreamed and uniform, that perpetuates the sexual degradation, the refusal of familial or marital commitment Racism is a reflex, human, adamant and criminal Especially among those who claim they are offended to be called a ‘racist,’ still in denial Racism: a reflex That not even sex can eradicate next Wherever we set foot or living quarters Racism is alive and here to stay, contaminating with its silent rage the innocent and the sage, As long as humanity will not feel one and only, in the immense yet lonely galaxy PEACE Please (impromptu)… Pathetic, irremediable return to pain : a path Ebony warm embrace in the so cold world Ancient, armored advocates of anguish Course and curse of Chronos in the midst of a wish Emotional elegies to empty elaborations …PEACE (haiku) Fierce mire of wights’ fears, A world – of stained stars and stench – Where sole death is peace. http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/love-sex-and-mathematics-other-stories-and-the-un-kind-poems/15255581?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1 PAINTINGS AND BOOK INFO ARE FEATURED ON FB: http://www.facebook.com/LM.ARNAL http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=personne&no=30942&texte_recherche=ARNAL PRESENTATION of LOVE, SEX AND MATHEMATICS The reasons why this book was written: "Si del cielo te caen limones aprende a hacer limonada" ("if the sky drops lemons on you, you've got to learn how to make lemonade") El Gran Varon, Willie Colon LM ARNAL is a multiracial writer who grew up without family in Europe, at a time when mixed relationships were still taboo, and who migrated at a young age to the United States. In Europe, after studying literature and political philosophy ARNAL found the weight of racism too thwarting and decided to travel as an adventurer. The United States was a place where everything seemed possible, and it was easy for this soon-to-be-writer to learn many skills to be independent and remain free. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and Fassbinder were ARNAL's first inspirations, then Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Edgar Poe, among many others. LM wrote articles, mostly for the black press (Nommo, African Affairs, Ariztos, etc) and worked as a radio programmer for many years (to broadcast reggae, jazz, African music, and panels to discuss primarily issues concerning the black community). After training as a HIV Prevention Counselor, ARNAL worked primarily within the black community to try and raise awareness and to educate different layers of the population in this domain. Later the education of professionals who deal with HIV patients became a priority on the author's agenda. In 2002, LM ARNAL edited "Poets Without Limits" an anthology of black writers from the LA Area. Then after seeing the failure of HIV Programs and the refusal in that circle to hire dedicated people, versus corrupt bureaucrats, ARNAL decided to write a script to fight HIV and change behaviors and which is included in the compilation "Love, Sex and Mathematics." The beliefs in honor, courage, justice and generosity are the values that motivate LM ARNAL to continue the struggle for a fairer world. Because humans "are created equals" and should be taught not to let the world corrupt them. “I know that my book, at times, might seem a little harsh. But after so many years of HIV Prevention, during which I saw so many professionals fake it and treat people like dirt, I decided that I would write a book. It was meant to possibly change behaviours and teach people of African descent another way to look at life and their problems, in order to learn how to solve them on their own. What pained me most was the violence I saw, within couples and within the family, the abusive relationships that prevailed, the abuse of children who then grow up crippled before being given a chance in the world. I wanted to find out what are the beliefs that make our people caught up in so much self-hatred, the beliefs and choices they make willingly that keep them captive despite money or success. We always have a choice, and it is time to make the right one, not only for us but also for those around us. For in the end, we are responsible for the fairness or unfairness of others: if we don’t have character, courage, and caring (my 3Cs) who will ever respect us and our children?” For any questions related to the book "Love, Sex, and Mathematics": http://www.lulu.com/product/couverture-souple/love-sex-and-mathematics-other-stories-and-the-un-kind-poems/15255581?productTrackingContext=product_view/more_by_author/right/1 ...Questions can be forwarded to karamooko@yahoo.com BOOKS PUBLISHED Poets Without Limits Love, Sex and Mathematics -- -- ************************************ Kill greed distrust and racism, before they kill us ***********************ARNAL -- ************************************ Kill greed distrust and racism, before they kill us ***********************ARNAL
