Frederick Glaysher

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Frederick Glaysher, author (born 1954, Detroit, Michigan), feeling he could not find what he needed in a college, followed the example of Robert Frost and others, and lived and studied independently on a farm in Oakland Township, Michigan, during the early 1970s, tramping the woods, reading Emerson, Whitman, and other poets, until he had found himself as a writer. Eventually, Glaysher entered the University of Michigan to study with the poet Robert Hayden prior to his death in 1980, and is the editor of two collections of Hayden's work. Glaysher has also taught at several colleges and universities.

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Biography

Glaysher lived in Japan where he taught at Gunma University in Maebashi in the early 1980s; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation in the early 1990s; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi River for several years; ultimately returning to his suburban hometown of Rochester, near Detroit, Michigan, living again in Oakland Township.

A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.

An outspoken advocate of the United Nations, Glaysher was an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000).

As much inspired by the example and writings of Martin Luther as the Bahai reformers Ruth White and Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Glaysher has been central to the renewal of the Reform Bahai Faith since 2004.

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Works

Books

  • (ed.) Robert Hayden's Collected Prose (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1984) ISBN 0472063510
  • (ed.) Robert Hayden's Collected Poems (Liveright, 1985). ISBN 0871406497
  • Into the Ruins: Poems. Earthrise Press, 1999. Preface. 73 pages. ISBN: 9780967042121
  • The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem. Earthrise Press, 2002. 71 pages. ISBN: 9780967042145
  • The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture. Earthrise Press, October, 2007. 337 pages. ISBN: 9780967042183. Table of Contents
  • Letters from the American Desert: Signposts of a Journey, A Vision. Earthrise Press, 2008. 172 pages. April, 2008. ISBN: 9780967042114
  • (ed.) The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith. Baha'u'llah. Abdu'l-Baha. Reform Bahai Press, 2008. 148 pages. January, 2008. ISBN: 9780967042138.
  • WorldCat Includes six books, edited or written, showing over 1600 copies in university and local libraries nationwide, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
  • WorldCat Includes two books that critique the Haifan Baha'i denomination and renew the Reform Bahai Faith:
  • The Poetry Foundation Report by Rick Stevens: "Technology: Poetry and New Media." January 2009. "Frederick Glaysher, the founder of Earthrise Press, is a dynamic presence among the advocates of self-publishing and adopting the independent music model of direct purchase from artist to consumer." (search > Glaysher)

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Role in Renewing the Reform Bahai Faith

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