My approach to writing has evolved out of Western classical culture, chaos, Buddhist study and practice, theater and love.
What I write about has moved from presenting traditional icons in newer formats, but now searches for the long and enduring phrases of luminosity hidden throughout the vectors of our continuing. Here language, like a shimmering dragon, is a sinuous, self-existing, self-renewing linkage.
So, I write novels about detectives, artists, teachers, emperors, eunuch-slaves; short stories about dancers, musicians, politicians, wanderers, and plays about demons and heroes, collaborative performance pieces about survivors, soldiers and story tellers.
It is my hope that in all these and all that will follow, I contribute to the mischief, longing, satisfaction, lust, sorrow and fascination which make our presence in this world a discovery of true love.
Thank you very much and all good wishes,
Douglas Penick