Michael Chacko Daniels’


Fable About Modern India

Anything Out of Place Is Dirt

Fable's yearning and song will linger

 

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"I found myself entranced by the

evocative, poetic, often soaring

beauty of the writing."

 

"Barthalomew's search for love,

meaning, and societal healing

is also youth's quest."

 

--From the Introduction by Naomi Rose 




An Introduction by Naomi Rose

In reading Michael Chacko Daniels’ early novel, Anything Out of Place Is Dirt, recently published in a revised second edition, I found myself entranced by the evocative, poetic, often soaring beauty of the writing.

The narrator, an Indian atypically named Barthalomew, is young and intensely self-conscious; but I soon found endearing his painful, sincere efforts to connect with other people and the factionalized society around him.

I found myself willing to enter his closely examined world, expanding to include every one of his paradoxical qualities—as when he looks up at an office clock on the wall, remembers that he is already wearing a wristwatch, and then, as if others were purposely watching him, aware of his awkward mistake, covers his traces by turning the knob of his watch as if to set it.

This intense self-consciousness, and the sincerity of heart confined beneath it, is tremendously touching. It is youth’s way to question existence while knowing so little of its reality; and Bartholomew’s search for love, meaning, and societal healing is also youth’s quest.

Yet the book has such detailed nuance that this is no polemic but an internal experience through another time and place, yet also timeless. Written when the author was in his twenties, Anything Out of Place Is Dirt still has great value and is worth a careful reading.

Even after the covers are closed, its yearning and song will linger.

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Naomi Rose is a writer and Book Developer whose work has appeared in Shaman's Drum, Intuition Journal, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Writer's Connection, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The New Holistic Health Handbook, Writing, and many other publications. She is currently writing a book on writing a book. She can be reached at naomierose@yahoo.com.

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Anything Out of Place Is Dirt

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Post Office Box 641724

San Francisco, CA 94109

United States of America


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"The books are beautiful,
they look like little treasures."

--Brenda Coleman



Each copy is beautifully handcrafted,
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Each time I handle one of these books, I feel honored

to have my works memorialized by the traditional

craftspeople in Calcutta, India,who contributed

their skills to these creations.


It has cost me $25 a copy to complete all the

phases of this work. Consider me to be a

hopeless romantic at sea in this world of writing and

publishing, but I am committed to bringing this

fable about modern India, and the poems, to

you in these beautiful, handcrafted editions.


Each copy that is requested at this price

will be personally signed by me.


These handcrafted, signed copies of the limited, revised second

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poetry they showcase, are history.


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Michael Chacko Daniels'

handcrafted books:


"The books are beautiful,

they look like little treasures."

--Brenda Coleman


Each copy is

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