Book II

HEARTS ABLAZE

January 3, 2023 | Carvalko

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Hearts Ablaze is about a New Mexico fire that destroyed nearly 350,000 acres in 2022. It incinerated homes, farms, killed wildlife, and disfigured the land but did not destroy the spirit of proud, humble people, who now resolve to start over. Carvalko’s monograph tells a story about the wildfire through poetry, pictures, and vignettes. A natural disaster threatens to decimate its victims, but an ever-present human spirit promises renewal in its aftermath. In less than several hundred feet, a wall of fire bears down on his casita in the New Mexican Sangre de Cristo mountains. He sees the plumes..

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CONSERVING HUMANITY at the DAWN OF POSTHUMAN TECHNOLOGY

January 10, 2020 | Carvalko

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    Carvalko examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future. Using a multidisciplinary approach he details the latest gene engineering technologies that will lead to increases in human intellect and artificial intelligence that will augment the powers of the human mind. He argues that we stand at the precipice of an evolutionary change caused by genetic engineering and anatomically embedded digital and informational technologies. Delving into current scientific initiatives he posits the emergence of super smart individuals with uni..

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An Interview, Joe Carvalko, Author of DETRÁS DEL ACERO

October 6, 2018 | Carvalko

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  A few weeks ago, I, Jonathan Marcantoni, Editorial Trance, was turned on to poetry collection Detrás del Acero by Joe Carvalko. His book examines life in 20th century America, placing special emphasis on the working class and the evolving relationship racial minorities have had with the greater society over that time. The book is both socially conscious and personal, as Mr. Carvalko uses aspects of his own life, his family history and his wife’s culture to influence his poetry. The language in his book is simple yet dense with emotion and ideas. The work has a haunting effect on the rea..

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DEATH BY INTERNET

April 23, 2016 | Carvalko

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DEATHBYINTERNETPODCAST Carvalko has authored a thriller about a domestic revolutionary and the government’s efforts to silence him. The story plays out in a prison cell, where an old man, half Native American, waits to be executed. He tells about his life, the violent deaths of his parents, his activities as a Indian activist, during the Indian uprisings of the ’70s, and then the years spent underground to avoid prosecution. One day he decides to take one last stand, and make a social statement by connecting himself to the Internet to provoke his audience to vote, whether he lives or dies, bas..

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Detrás del Acero

April 9, 2015 | Carvalko

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New York, NY – Musician, Lawyer and Writer, Joseph Carvalko, publishes his intimate poetry collection, Detrás del Acero, through digital publishing platform, Editorial Trance. This e-book expresses a longing to love, while railing against injustice, and paying tribute to those who fought for and built America. It is available for the iBOOK, Kindle, Google Play, and Nook platforms, at their respective outlets. "My grandfather, a union activist, organized bakery workers in NYC at the turn of the 20th century. My father was a union man, organizer, president for 35 years fighting for sweatshop wor..

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BEHIND THE STEEL- ONE LIFE—FIVE EPOCHS

December 31, 2014 | Carvalko

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Behind the Steel, a book of poetry, takes the reader through a century filled with the experiences of people who toiled in the inner cities, on vast prairies, and who came to know the zones of war, and other conflicts, and offers a perspective that will resonate with anyone who thinks hard about where we came from and for what purpose. Carvalko's work deals with death, loses of the heart, and old age, when the past stands still and time quickens, when the echoes of the past ricochet and scatter into pure energy.  He casts a sharp eye into a search for meaning through action, but discovers that..

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Winter Interrupted

October 17, 2014 | Carvalko

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My short story about two elderly veterans appears in All Gave Some, (Red Engine Press, 2014, 457 pps) an anthology of fiction and nonfiction military themes. Writers range from well-known historians and novelists to first-time authors. The 2014 edition is produced under the auspices of the Military Writers Society of America. It begins: Today, while giving CPR to a bed of roses that aren’t surviving a sudden heat wave, I kept thinking about Harry, who’d come to Florida to visit me from up north to get away from what turned out to be a punishing winter on a lake, where winds pushed upwards of f..

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Manifest West: Different Roads

October 3, 2014 | Carvalko

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My poem: “County Road 80” about a New Mexico Sephardic Jew appears in Manifest West: Different Roads (Pub: University Press of Colorado) an anthology that reflects both "the myth and the truth about what we call the 'West." The editors of Different Roads remind us that our "strength lies in differences, not in similarities," what Stanley Baldwin refers to as "the many-sidedness of truth.------------ COUNTY ROAD 80----------- Between Cordova and Truchas, el hombre looks skyward, wizened, blinded by the sun’s flux, in honor of that birth-marked wiry muscled clan clawing desiccated soil from an I..

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THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GUIDEBOOK FOR LAWYERS

August 24, 2014 | Carvalko

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My coauthor Cara Morris, Esq. and I are delighted to announce our publishers, ABA Publications, released The Science and Technology Guidebook for Lawyers. We believe it is the first comprehensive text, aimed at legal professionals, to help them understand the important role science and technology play in rationally dealing with global warming, genetic engineering, privacy, intellectual property, criminal justice, and the imminent explosion of electronic medicine. For an excerpt go to: http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Default.aspx?TabID=251&productId=214830..

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FLARE: The Flagler Review- Möbius Strip

May 10, 2014 | Carvalko

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By Joe Carvalko As the centuries turned one into another, we lost the gift of ancients for hearing muted primal screams, for seeing Munch’s faceless shriek— the unmistakable precursors of everything spiraling into darkness. I did not see her wane and wander in the whirligig of despair, until they threw the keys away. They took her to the place where lights bounced-off linoleum worn and polished, behind metal doors with a window— a lock turned, behind which people twirled, laughed, lifted dresses over their heads or sucked their thumbs and bawled. I searched for tapestries of blues, births, dea..

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A Deadly Fog: Pith and Conflict

May 10, 2013 | Carvalko

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A Deadly Fog portrays war in its various manifestations, historically and as we witness war around the world, today such as in Iraq. Through stories, essays, poems and importantly art, it draws the reader through the voice of the poet and the eye of the artist in a relentless expression of how war brings whole societies to their knees, killing, maiming and displacing thousands of people, both civilian and combatant. Based partly on firsthand experience and oft-heard narratives, the Carvalko has endeavored to describe human emotion at the deepest levels of loss and longing. The work has been th..

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A Road Once Traveled

May 10, 2013 | Carvalko

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A hard but intimate look into the life of one man and his travels across an epoch of experience, place and time. It speaks to the universal experience of wanting to discover an inner-self. In a deeply personal introspection, Carvalko concludes that life forms around a heritage having outlooks, strengths and weaknesses that antedate birth. Once born we immediately begin to modify the heritage passed down creating lifelong attitudes through which we assess right, wrong, the good and the bad. We come to learn about what makes us happy, sad, frightened and motivated and this too has a lasting affe..

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