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A posthumously published collection of new essays and poems from the much loved author, playwright, educator, humorist, E. Reid Gilbert. The author is well known for his touching and compassionate forays into the fundamental questions we all confront around our daily and creative lives. The collections was completed shortly before his passing. He will be missed by all who loved him and his warm take on life.

Comic Relief Limericks have been identified with the Irish County of Limerick, although apparently started elsewhere. One anonymous reader in NY wrote after reading Gilbert's earlier book, "I read the whole book three times and laughed and laughed. Thanks for writing it." Comic relief is aptly named. Even in the heaviness of Shakespearean tragedies there is a need for relief. Limericks seem to fit the bill for that function in the contemporary...

A new publication of Limericks for our time by storyteller, mime, author, and thought leader, E. Reid Gilbert, sharing his whimsical yet often thoughtful view of the Trump administration's first hundred days. Medicine for our times. A political analeptic. Insightful curative witticism. With a glance toward the other side of the aisle as well.E. Reid Gilbert grew up in the tobacco hills of North Carolina, before pursuing academic studies: Breva...

E. Reid Gilbert has been engaged in theatre as a playwriter, performer, mime, choreographer, director of a major center for mime in Spring Green, WI, a student of Kabuki and Indian Kathakali Dance, as well as having written his infamous 100 Limericks for 100 Days of Trump, and multiple books in his octogenarian years. He continues his writing at 88 years of age, with his next book documenting his approach to physical acting and movement for th...

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A revised publication by story teller, mime, author, and thought leader, E. Reid Gilbert, sharing his whimsical yet often thoughtful view of the Trump administration's first hundred days. Medicine for our times. A political analeptic. Insightful curative witticism. With a glance toward the other side of the aisle as well.E. Reid Gilbert grew up in the tobacco hills of North Carolina, before pursuing academic studies: Brevard College (AA Englis...

Every culture has its own trickster character. The Southern Appalachian Mountain trickster is Jack, whom readers may know from traditional stories like "Jack in the Giant's Newground" and "Jack and the Bean Tree." The stories in Trickster Jack, which focus on the shenanigans of Jack and his older brothers, are actually tall tales emerging from Reid Gilbert's tricky imagination. Set in the Southern Appalachians around the end of the nineteenth ...

Storyteller, mime, author, and thought leader, E. Reid Gilbert, is at it again, sharing his whimsical yet often thoughtful view of the Trump administration's impactful days. Medicine for our times. Another political analeptic. Insightful curative witticism. With a glance toward the other side of the aisle as well.E. Reid Gilbert grew up in the tobacco hills of North Carolina, before pursuing academic studies: Brevard College (AA English) Duke ...

Stories Tell What Can't be Told: My Story is a collection of stories in the life journey of E.Reid Gilbert, after finishing high school, leaving home and matriculatingin several colleges, where he earned five academic degrees, ranging from English and Sociology to Theology and AsianTheatre.These stories are recollections of events and people fromGilbert's careers in the Methodist and Unitarian ministries, performanceand instruction of Mime, Co...

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By the time E. Reid Gilbert graduated high school, his family had lived in twelve different houses, each of which provided experiences that would ripple throughout the rest of his days. Second house. Two-year-old Reid toddles down the middle of a busy highway to join the gypsies who camp behind the Colvard's General Store. Though his mother retrieves him before he reaches his destination, she can't extinguish his desire for exploration and adv...

Every culture has its own trickster character. The Southern Appalachian Mountain trickster is Jack, whom readers may know from traditional stories like "Jack in the Giant's Newground" and "Jack and the Bean Tree." The stories in Trickster Jack, which focus on the shenanigans of Jack and his older brothers, are really tall tales emerging from Reid Gilbert's tricky imagination. Set in the Southern Appalachians around the end of the nineteenth ce...