Sun Ra Collected Works
Vol. I: Immeasurable Equation (Now Shipping)

Phaelos Books
ISBN 0-9700209-7-X
7.5 x 9.25 in. 276 ppgs.
B/W interior, Photos,
Trade Softcover $24.95 (NEW)
Publication Date: November 22, 2005
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Publisher's NOTE: September 11, 2005. We are pleased to announce that we are now shipping this much anticipated work. The book contains 260 poems and prose, and is printed upon order and shipped. Thank you for your patience and advance orders.--Adam Abraham

A reprisal of one of Sun Ra's most popular works of poetry and cosmic wisdom from Immeasurable Equation Vol. II Extensions Out. This volume was originally published in 1972 by Ihnfinity Inc. and Saturn Research.

Edited by Adam Abraham, son of Alton Abraham, who founded El Saturn Research, Sun Ra's first record label, and force behind the Arkestra. Includes an essay by Mr. Abraham: "Sun Ra: Father of Intergalactic Music -- 'Far Out' Before it was Cool"

Also included are black & white images of the Sun Ra Arkestra and never before seen art.

Here's a sample:

The Past is a Dream

The past is a dream
A fictitious fantasy devised
By some sardonic kindly mind
In the hope that we might see
The meanings of today and all its possibilities
And that in our gratitude
We would not live in such a way
That we should regrogress
To all the mean lowliness
Of our imagined yesterdays.

The past is some fictitious thing
A one dimension fantasy
Made to be or seem to be... in the hope that we might see
Beyond the scene of shadow-past
Yes to see, we must to see
The Living beauty sympathy,
The greater Alter-universe
Is just the place where we should be.

This present dream is not the thing
This dream we will that it not be
This one dimension fantasy.