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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Books 2.2 Website 3 Sources 4 Role in Renewing the Reform Bahai Faith 5 External links

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)

Website

• One official website of Frederick Glaysher
• "The Mission of Earthrise Press", by Frederick Glaysher

Sources

Selected work, articles, and reviews available on the Internet:

• Poems Niederngasse Review of The Bower of Nil 2003. "...Frederick Glaysher was a Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994...." "This is a doorway into the future...."
• Brief autobiography, by Frederick Glaysher
• "Robert Hayden in the Morning Time." In The Grove of the Eumenides (above: 247-265). Glaysher studied with Robert Hayden, who happened to be a Baha'i, knew him closely on a personal level, worked for him as a secretary, and edited the collected editions of his prose and poems. Includes discussion of Hayden's loathing Baha'i fundamentalism.
• Brothers Judd Interview of Frederick Glaysher : "...I grew up in suburban Detroit..." 2002.
• Millennium Forum Participant List. 2000.
• "INDIVIDUALISM AND THE STATE IN CHINA: Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad to China" Archived from library.kcc.hawaii.edu to archive.org showing that he was a participant in the Fulbright Scholars Abroad program, 1994.
• "Meditations in an Old Barn." Essay in Modern Age. Vol. 31 (Summer/Fall) 1987.
• "T. S. Eliot and 'The Horror! The Horror!'" Essay in Modern Age. Vol. 28 (Fall) 1984.
• "Re-centering: The Turning of the Tide and Robert Hayden." World Order Vol. 17 (Summer 1983).
• Review of Saul Bellow's "Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories." "Saul Bellow Journal" (Summer) 1985.

Role in Renewing the Reform Bahai Faith

• Reform Bahai Faith. Official Website.
• The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience. Documents censorship and suppression of free speech and conscience within the Baha'i Faith. Glaysher was central to the creation of talk.religion.bahai on Usenet from 1997 to 1999. Still the only uncensored and unmoderated forum on the Internet for Bahai discussion.
• The Chicago Tribune. "Baha'i rift: Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith." May 18, 2009. Newspaper article revealing Baha'i lawsuits in US District Courts.
• Responds to "Baha'i rift: Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith. The Chicago Tribune. May 18, 2009.
• Comments posted to The Chicago Tribune. "Baha'i rift: Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith." May 18, 2009 and Topix Forum.
• 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, February 20, 2009. From the Court Record, "Judge Bauer: How about Reform Baha'i? Can they use that term?" [i.e., the word Baha'i]
• US Court of Appeals Record. Three-minute audio clip regarding religious freedom and Reform Bahai. Judge Diane S. Sykes: "Clearly raises some Constitutional concerns."
• "A Response to Takfir." Glaysher replies: In PDF copy of his journal article: Religion 38 No 4 2008. ("Takfir," Arabic, denouncing people as “kafir,” an infidel.)
• "A Response to Takfir" Glaysher replies: In HTML on the Internet at The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience.
• "A Response to Takfir" Glaysher replies: In published journal article of all respondents in "Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community.’" Pages 384-393. Religion 38 No 4 2008.
• Science Direct article. Published version of attack on him as an "apostate": Religion 37 (2007) 187-209.
• Religion 37 (2007) 187-209. Libelled as an "apostate in text version available on Internet."
• Wikipedia Frederick Glaysher article deleted after attacks by Baha'i fanatics. April 2008 "The attacks imho are religion-based as this person is a vocal critic of certain Baha'i institutions. There is no evidence that his works are vanity-press publications. The article is fairly new and deserves new eyes to expand it, instead of this pressure by a vested group or a few individuals to suppress it. Wjhonson 4 April 2008" "Their only purpose is to attack Glaysher."
• Wikipedia Archived debate of the proposed deletion of the Frederick Glaysher article. 2008. "Their only purpose is to attack Glaysher. This del entry should be voided on that basis solely.... Wjhonson (talk) 23:51, 12 April 2008"
• Sects of Bahais. Role as a Reformer. "Bahais who believe that Will and Testament of Abdul Baha is Fraudulent."
• Reform Bahai Faith, "prominent Baha'i dissident Frederick Glaysher." "The only currently existing Baha'i sect that is not based on disputes about the Guardianship or any new claim of spiritual authority is the Reform Bahai Faith, founded in 2004 by prominent Baha'i dissident Frederick Glaysher.... This independent Baha'i denomination seeks to promote a more liberal, less authoritarian interpretation of the Baha'i faith."
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Cited as attesting to Baha'i false enrollment statistics.
• JRI Cole - Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1998. The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997. "When Baha'i Frederick Glaysher began a campaign for an unmoderated Usenet list (in 1997), the rank-and-file Soc.Religion.Bahai posters were overwhelmingly negative..."

External links

• The Jewish Dailty Forward: Saul Bellow and the Modern Soul November 2007. "A few years ago, Frederick Glaysher wrote that you are the only American writer, along with Isaac Bashevis Singer, who addresses the problem of the modern soul."
• Essay and General Literature Index—September 2007 "Poet Frederick Glaysher in these essays comments on a variety of literary and social issues, ranging from the plays of Sophocles, and the major works of Japanese literature, to the loss of religion and spirituality in modern society and literature."
• Jack Magazine Review of Into the Ruins Volume 1, No. 2. Circa 2001. "Out of the mass of recent poetry books, here is one you should read." William Allegrezza.
• North American Review 2003. "A litany of horrors updating Eliot’s Waste Land, the book upbraids poets for turning inward only to concerns of the self."
• EP&M Online, Review of Into the Ruins 2000. "A book about something other than an author’s reflections in a mirror."
• Brothersjudd.com Review of The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem 2002. "Mr. Glaysher writes with a genuine passion, with an obvious thrill at the play of ideas, and with an often compelling sense of purpose.... On balance the poem is very worthwhile reading and the middle section is just outstanding."
• Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Review of The Bower of Nil "The Bower of Nil is where we all live...."
• Mildred R. Mickle, Review of The Bower of Nil. The Carolina Quarterly Spring 2003 v55.
• NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1995, "Hindu and Muslim: Rethinking Religious Boundaries in South Asia". Carl W. Ernst and Tony K. Stewart, Co-Directors, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Robert Hayden, Collected Prose. UM Press, 1984 Edited.
• Robert Hayden, Collected Poems. Liveright, 1996 Edited.
• The M&C Interview 1: Charles Johnson, 6/07 On page 2.