Mantra Rain

About the Book

Mantra Rain is the long awaited sequel to the Greatest Living Poet (aka. Mark kobo). Mark Rendina has traveled the world presenting his new concept of modern poetry. He has gained an enthusiastic audience where ever he has appeared - across the USA and Europe. "Mantra Rain" gives the world exciting new poems with all the qualities of incantation, metaphysics, and everyday song - all presented in the highest realization of the American language. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Mantra Rain gives to American poetry a poetics that has a vibrant and participatory market. No other living poet has gained such a devoted following. The work of “Mantra Rain” will continue to grow his audience wherever English is spoken.

About the Author

Mark Rendina writes under the pen name of Mark Chandos - a modern American poet and philosopher. Witnessing the collapse of traditional Western civilization, in his books of the KOSMOAUTIKON cycle, Chandos recovers the highest Western concepts and embodies them in a new philosophy of a space faring civilization. Deeply studied in history and philosophy of the Ancient world, Chandos reexamines literature and ancient mythologies showing that they have always been misinterpreted. He believes that only our generation is able to understand the real meaning of the combined narrative of all epic literature, from Gilgamesh, to Homer, to Milton. He shows that all of human myth, including all epic poetry, contains a map of cosmology. Chandos discovers in ancient epic texts that a superior intelligence embedded secret information of the origin of human life. Why should the reader Read the KOSMOAUTIKON Epic Cycle of poems? One. 1) KOSMOAUTIKON has information of the long count of the Human Condition. No other work of American literature observes the ancient origins of the human genome. No other poem projects the force of the strong poet into a Space faring civilization. Only the KOSMOAUTIKON contains the long count of human civilization. Two. 2) KOSMOAUTIKON does not repeat any modernist clichés. Modernism can only detect modernism. Modern literature can only regurgitate modernist linguistic codices – a fascination with disease, medical mythos, and the omnipotence of laboratory science. KOSMOAUTIKON accuses the madness of this modernist experiment. Instead, KOSMOAUTIKON detects the astral position of the human mind. A story is told that places man in a position of power in relation to the universe. Modernism makes treats men and parasites. In story Theory man is the center of all things, since only the human has a terra- forming mind. Three. 3) KOSMOAUTIKON creates a new linguistic codex to project a new advance in the human Genome. A new linguistic structure must always prepare the way for any human advance. “I had to remove your planet – and then your bones.” Four. 4) KOSMOAUTIKON tells the story of Rogue males. Who are our rogue males? Alexander, Christ, Cesar, Dante, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Henry VIII, Edward De Vere (Shake-speare), Beethoven, Francis bacon, Oscar Wilde (the list is long). The point? Western civilization has been made by dangerous rogue males. No other modern text would even dare to discuss the power of the rogue male. Where else will the reader find the truth? Modernism seeks to inoculate, medicate, or incarcerate the rogue male – early. Yet what is the truth? There will be rogues makes again – and they will change the human genome. This is the story of KOSMOAUTIKON Five. 5) There is no other document that contains future speech. No Western person can be educated without first reading KOSMOAUTIKON. It does not matter your opinion of poetry or the poet. You have to deal with it. Most googled favorite lines from KOSMOAUTIKON: 1) We had to remove your planet – then your bones. 2) Observe my second sweat condense the juice loving bark, my song recovered stitch all numbered kiss close fit . . . 3) . . . then fix my sleep at that beam all-speeding from glow emitting north, my eye abreast a lover's sha