Spirit Garden: Poems

On SPIRIT GARDEN:
In Spirit Garden, poet-scholar-playwright Joe Martin sings ecstatically of theOne, the hidden integrity of opposites & the living mystery of existence. He notonly fuses Sufi, Buddhist & Jewish paths in a troubadours transcendence bothtimeless & time-bound, his thirty poems share the page with Enrique Castanonshaunting figures which shift foreground and background to meta-illustrate thegestalt of Martins vision.
Kirpal Gordon, author, Giant Steps Press blog
On FOREIGNERS:
"[An] absurdist mind grenade... Joe Martin''s first novel paints this neo-Europeanshadow landscape with panache a gifted American writer."
Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle
On RUMIS MATHNAVI: A Stage Adaptation
Absolutely remarkable and memorable lifting the veils one after another.Lida Saeedian, co-translator of The Pocket Rumi
On PARABOLA: SHORTER FICTIONS
...through the tightly structured geometry of this metaphorically rich [work is a]recognition of the search we undertake to fi x a place for ourselves and try tomake sense of a confusing, alienating and often combative world.Cheryl Pallant, High Performance