Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams: A Literary and Art Collection

From the author of Espresso Love and Secondhand Memories, the award-winning trailblazer of online literature and transmedia storytelling, comes an unconventional postmodern collection of fragments, moments, imaginings containing thought-provoking and enigmatic short stories, poetry, essay, excerpts, aphorisms, photography, typography, design and artwork.His work paints surreal visions and explores philosophical themes of the human condition and spirituality, subjective perception and the nature of reality, the system and the cosmos through strange conversations, umbrellas, a talking bird, a girl with a top hat, grandfather clocks, transfigured stones, a missing archaeologist, bowls of rice, a man with twelve toes, and more.The book features the award-winning transcendental "The Elephant Girl", a heartbreaking "Sometimes I Think You Can't Hear Me", the magical fable "By The River" and political essay "It's Pouring, Bring Two Umbrellas".Available as full colour eBook or Paperbackhttp://inspirituspress.com/OFCDPaperback:http://www.amazon.com/Forests-Clocks-...http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/of-fo...https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/...http://www.alibris.com/Of-Forests-and...eBooks:https://www.amazon.com/Forests-Clocks...https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/fore...http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebo...https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/...REVIEWS"[His stories] have a timeless quality, little legends or fables that enlighten or explain a philosophy of life, a zen moment... [they] touch on an innate mystery of things that allow one to see." - Patricia Keeney, York University Creative Writing Professor, Award-winning Poet, Critic and Author of One Man Dancing"A thought provoking work that will leave the reader questioning the very existence around them... [Takatsu] always seems to be breaking the rules and combining various mediums of art... The pioneer of English Cell Phone Novels has continued to approach writing-and art as a whole-in different ways, breaking and manipulating constructs to produce work that, while still holding ties to the written word, manifests into something that defies its very foundation... A great glimpse into what the future of the written word-and art as a whole-can be." - C.J. Garrett, Author of Memoirs of a Zygote (Trapped in a Human's Body)"Takatsu is a fascinating writer, musician and illustrator and is at the forefront of transmedia storytelling." - Rowena Wiseman, Author of Searching for Von Honningsbergs, The Replacement Wife, Bequest, Silver"I am awestruck at the philosophical stance of your writing. Your writing is akin to that of Murakami in its surrealist execution." - Shane Oltingir, Wattpad ReaderTHE AUTHORTakatsu, known as a passionate trailblazer of online literature and transmedia storytelling, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction, featured Wattpad author of 20,000 followers, poet, philosopher, musician, designer, guest speaker and Literature student from Toronto. In 2008, through coming-of-age story, 2009 Textnovel Reader's Choice and Editor's Choice Award winning "Secondhand Memories" (Sakura Publishing 2015), he pioneered the Japanese "cell phone novel" phenomenon in the English-speaking world. In 2014, his critically acclaimed dystopian magical realism philosophical literary novel, "Espresso Love" ranked #1 for Sci-Fi, won the Watty's Award and reached 900,000 reads online. He won York University's Stanley Fefferman Award in 2014 and the Babs Burggraf Award of $2500 for his short story "Elephant Girl" in 2016. He is influenced by writers such as Murakami, Borges, Orwell, DeLillo, Kafka, Carver and the ideas of Mumford, Baudrillard, Jung, Wyndham Lewis, McLuhan, Hegel, and Marx.