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Odin Roark
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Background in NY/LA entertainment and arts, Now Novelist/Poet/Humanist. Two novels published: ECHOSIS, 3 WAY MIRROR. Poems published in "Said and Unsaid" Vol 1. In 2012 - 2 volumes of my poetry were published: "Prosetry at Work," and "Perceptions" (The latter as photo/prosetry art book on Lulu) I am especially intrigued with prosetry and slam poetry artists, especially those who come across wit
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I've been fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your POV) to have worked a lifetime in film, stage, TV and writing. Influences have been too many to mention, but some of primary importance have been: David Foster Wallace, Travanian, Paddy Chayefsky, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Henry Miller, Christopher Hitchens, Norman Mailer and Ray Kurzweil.
Birth Place: Salt Lake, UT America
Accomplishments: Directing Drama-Logue Award
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Books
|  | ECHOSIS by Odin Roark
What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take action against such a colony of artists?...
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 | Prosetry at Work by Odin Roark
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day....
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 | 3 WAY MIRROR by Odin Roark
3 WAY MIRROR is about a lost identity as experienced by a twenty-eight-year old who thinks he's Charles Randall, until strange events suggest otherwise....
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Short Stories
When the Wheels Stop Turnin' (flash fiction) by Odin Roark
Age, especially witnessing it in parents, does have it’s lighter moments, few as they might be....
Nomadic Heart by Odin Roark
(Flash Fiction) With so much wanting, so little fulfillment, the problem's solution seems totally out of reach for some.
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6 Sec. Trailer by Odin Roark
A flash fiction ode to those tween twits who keep the marketing departments employed. Used to be, you 'd seen the only parts of a movie worth paying for when you'd watched the 2 or 3 minute trailer...
Nightmare Tunnel - Merry-go-Round by Odin Roark
An empty subway car in the middle of the night becomes populated with guilt from the past. Balloons, ice cream, stuffed animals are clutched by the accusers in this Nightmare Tunnel trial for a sadist...
Surreal Dummy by Odin Roark
Some flash fiction on the art of seeing what is arguably important to be seen....
Hummingbird at 30,000 ft. by Odin Roark
History never tells the whole story. Many have answers. Some have questions. Thus, an allegory of sorts follows....
Animal Chain Atrocities by Odin Roark
Having just read a book of startling facts associated with the manufacture of the meat supply, purging was the only remedy for depression. Hardly poetic, but perhaps informative.
Findin...
Guilt by Odin Roark
Finding the right format for what needs grounding is troublesome at times... especially when one is addressing a universal malaise and feels impotent to impact a change. So… flash fiction. ...
Empty Airports by Odin Roark
Some prosetry unpacking, a short story hoping to find with time that vagaries will fade, wisdom will appear....
DARKNESS THREE by Odin Roark
This is a short story lift from my published novel 3 WAY MIRROR. It is a pivotal part of the story, circa the '80s, and the introduction of two characters, Max and Julian who serve as ce...
It's Only Fair by Odin Roark
Just another recall needing time to "be" again....
Hunger Pangs by Odin Roark
Transporting oneself to an imaginary place works wonders for a rainy day. (A prosetry/flash fiction exploration)...
Lest We Forget To Remember by Odin Roark
A prosetry reminder: Some would argue that today’s readers are unaware of how unyielding some writers of yesterday chose to be--at any cost. ...
Reality Becoming... by Odin Roark
A flash fiction question: At what point does existence become something else?...
Counting Backwards by Odin Roark
Sometimes the best way to express long distance journeys is to compress the traveling into bite size passages. Thus, some flash fiction experimenting. ...
Not Much Time by Odin Roark
In this flash fiction/prosetry amalgamation, I tried to picture the planet’s technology leaping ahead exponentially. As such, it’s easy to forget how isolated and intimate happiness can be sometimes. ...
Reality Faced by Odin Roark
(Part flash fiction, part prosetry) Arguably, in order for the middle class to ever rise again in America, the 1% must discover reality again in America....
Nights of the Absurd by Odin Roark
Dedicated to those homeless artists I knew and their daily struggle to stay stable....
Screenplay Pitch by Odin Roark
After 50 years in the biz, I join those whose substantive argument is that thinking out of the box will continue its struggle to reach the big screen. Hunger for what once was artistic collaboration, ...
Looney Tunes Lunacy by Odin Roark
With so little to take one’s mind off insanity’s headlines, flash-fiction dreams have their advantage…once in a while....
Surreal Dummy by Odin Roark
Some flash fiction on the art of seeing what is arguably important to be seen....
A KId's Museum Day by Odin Roark
There are some memories that rear up once in a while and won’t leave you alone. So, a little flash fiction to assuage the itch....
I'm Scared by Odin Roark
2nd chances come along once in a while. ...
^fn Key-Exile (a prosetry observation) by Odin Roark
Another mini-essay exploration into the mystery....
Crayon Message by Odin Roark
New York affords the meeting of all kinds of characters. Some real. Some… ...
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Poetry
Dixie Cup Memorial by Odin Roark
As this holiday weekend begins, it’s easy to forget that Memorial Day is not about the long weekend box office competition. Thoughts of the sad state of VA applications(a backlog of over 800,...
hobbyhorse dreams by Odin Roark
A prosetry exploration into why every day bids we abandon dreams and face reality—but whose reality? ...
Toxic Cake by Odin Roark
After reading Thomas Friedman’s op-ed today “Tell Me How This Ends,” one would like to deny the inevitability, but…...
Love LIke a Sweater by Odin Roark
It’s easy to forget love has many forms. ...
Finding Home by Odin Roark
Experience seems to reinforce: “what we resist persists.” Death is such an unknown. We all want to dream as if we’ll live forever, but perhaps we should all aspire to live as if we’ll die today...and ...
Dying Alive by Odin Roark
Considering mortality....
Showerhead Liberation by Odin Roark
Privacy invasion hasn’t yet reached the shower and most likely this sanctum of inner privacy will remain ours for the taking, or...ignoring....
Doors and Entrances by Odin Roark
Entrances and exits come in many forms, some tangible, some ethereal. ...
Mind's Labor Camps by Odin Roark
Accepting we create our own reality is often a slow lifelong revelation. ...
Funhouse Distortion by Odin Roark
Self examination comes in many forms. ...
Rust-framed Reflections by Odin Roark
With camera in hand, burial grounds of youthful symbols will always remain nostalgic. ...
Cobblestones Gasping by Odin Roark
Interesting how some of history’s roads of suffering convert into modern delusion. ...
Age by Odin Roark
Hey, youngin's, there is no end, only other beginnings. ...
Poem as Surrogate by Odin Roark
As fingers alert the keyboard, so too does the keyboard arrest the disquiet of the mind. ...
Colorless Tears by Odin Roark
Scar-like Healings by Odin Roark
Many believe that one cannot know joy having not experienced pain. ...
Scattered Ash by Odin Roark
Imagining possibilities portends endless beginnings. ...
Malignant Avarice by Odin Roark
How aware are we of the ubiquitous mental affliction that is yet to be included in the DSM? ...
Ladybug by Odin Roark
I had a visit today by a most unexpected wanderer who decided to land on my keyboard and preen. ...
Gorging On Opinions by Odin Roark
With politics, it’s getting harder and harder for many to discern fact from fiction....
Cogwheel Ballet by Odin Roark
Regardless of the mode, the creative spirit knows zero boundary lines. (A prosetry/flash fiction work)
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Screenpoem Pitch by Odin Roark
A prosetry construct of a surreal video poem....
A Whispered Blink by Odin Roark
Might defining the poet merely state the obvious? ...
Bella by Odin Roark
Being an urban dreamer, I took a break from immersing myself in a novel of 19th century European hardship and contemplated what it might have been like. ...
What if... by Odin Roark
Below, no more far fetched than Kafka’s deliberation on guilt and justice in “The Trial,” a consideration that altered many a reader’s sense of consciousness. ...
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Articles
Cavemen in Tuxedos (an editorial) by Odin Roark
The world’s accelerated chaos begs perhaps unanswerable questions. One must regret it’s not an American exclusive problem....
Ghost Town Ghosts by Odin Roark
The country’s leadership is in a shambles… elections carried forth for the right reasons are a joke. Where might the awakening reside?...
Note to Self by Odin Roark
Climbing some rock then a quick dip in the ocean below… For some of us, it doesn’t get any better....
Essay on Poetic Theory by Odin Roark
Although dense in its layout, Oppen's remarkable essay is well worth the annoyance....
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