The Green Child (Herbert Read) Author

[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

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The Green Child (Herbert Read) Author

A visionary masterpiece filled with quicksand portals, revolutionary dictators, and subterranean worlds

Pub Date: Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read — the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author
considered it a philosophical fable akin to Plato’s cave. 

Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as a man forces the girl to drink lamb’s blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown realms.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“[B]eautifully imagined and beautifully written.” (Robert Gorham Davis)

“[A] very charming philosophical tale.” (The Times [London])

“[R]emarkable for its cool yet vivid style.” (Bob Barker, poet)

“The Green Child is the kind of book to write if you are going to leave just the one novel behind: singular, odd, completely original.” (Geoffrey Wheatcroft)              

About the Author:

20th Century British writer

Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a British poet, editor, publisher, essayist, and critic. He attended the University of Leeds and served in the British Army during World War I. He went on to act as editor for Burlington Magazine and lecturer at Liverpool University and at Harvard University. He passed away in 1968.

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

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[La Vonda R. Staples]

Funmi,

Thank you for this review.  I read the short bio of the author.  Am I the only person who reads bios and places them in the horrible house of race?  I mean to say that I notice who is and who is not allowed to enter professions and what education they have attained.  i have had so many experiences with supervisors, managers, even department chairs who were White and not as academically fitted as their Black peers.  Also, I've met Whites who were employed in occupations for which they had no academic acquaintance.  Recently, I had a friend tell me that she met with an acquisitions person from a very reputable publisher.  The lady was very nice, well educated and White. She admitted that she had never taken a class centered on Africa and neither had she ever traveled to Africa.  Yet, she was in charge and she is in charge of the publisher's division which handles textbooks on the subject of Africa.  Would a Black person be hired for such a position? 

I've met adjuncts and even full-time professors who had less than the required education for their position.  Always, the person was White.  On the other hand, I've met and I know far too many African and African Americans who are very much over-qualified in terms of degrees for their positions.  The worst case of this was a woman who was a department chair (and probably still is) who held a doctorate from an online university.  None of the Black profs who served beneath her would ever consider this type of institution as a career choice.  

I started wondering about this when I found out that a prominent newscaster only had a high school diploma.  It seems that Black people are assumed to not be able to learn on the job unless it is a restaurant, retail or manual labor environment.  No one, it seems, wants to take a chance on "us." 

La Vonda R. Staples

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“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great; Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.

[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

Am I the only person who reads bios and places them in the horrible house of race? I mean to say that I notice who is and who is not allowed to enter professions and what education they have attained.

Dear Ms. Staples:

My perception of the world is quite different from others.  During my undergraduate education, I was the only black student in most of my Art History classes. Why?  At the time, majority of the black students on campus assumed that most Art History Professors were racists and gatekeepers, and they were not.  

Ms. Staples, I  tend to focus on life essentials, and less on race and racism in America.  Personally, racism is never a deterrence in attaining my goals.  My focus is always on the person, and not the behavior. 

Cheers.