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    Signal Reactions and Other Poems
    Signal Reactions and Other Poems
    Signal Reactions and Other Poems
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    Signal Reactions and Other Poems

    By Martin H. Levinson and Katherine H. Liepe-Levinson

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    The title of this book, Signal Reactions, refers to a general semantics (GS) term signifying an instant, unthinking, subjective response to a person, place, thing, or event. These responses rarely work out wel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Institute of General Semantics
    Release dateJul 19, 2021
    ISBN9781970164053
    Signal Reactions and Other Poems
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    Martin H. Levinson

    Martin H. Levinson has published ten books, numerous articles, and dozens of poems. He is a member of the Authors Guild, the National Book Critics Circle, and book editor of ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He holds a PhD in Organizational Studies from NYU and lives in Forest Hills, New York.

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      Signal Reactions and Other Poems - Martin H. Levinson

      Signal Reactions and Other Poems

      Copyright © 2020 by Martin Levinson

      All rights reserved. Reprint or reproduction in all forms, including photocopy and digital media, strictly prohibited except with permission of the author.

      Published by the Institute of General Semantics

      72-11 Austin Street, #233

      Forest Hills, New York, 11375

      www.generalsemantics.org

      Cover Design by Katherine Liepe-Levinson

      www.katherineliepelevinson.zenfolio

      Interior Book Design by Scribe Freelance

      www.scribefreelance.com

      ISBN: 978-1-970164-04-6 (Paperback)

      978-1-970164-05-3 (eBook)

      Printed in the United States of America

      ____________________________

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Names: Levinson, Martin H., 1946- author / Liepe-Levinson, Katherine, 1953- illustrator.

      Title: Signal reactions and other poems / Martin H. Levinson.

      Description: [New York] : [Institute of General Semantics], [2020] |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020016457 (print) | LCCN 2020016458 (ebook) | ISBN 9781970164046 (paperback) | ISBN 9781970164053 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: General semantics—Poetry. | LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3612.E9287 S54 2020 (print) | LCC PS3612. E9287 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016457

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016458

      Poetry often conveys in a few sentences more of lasting value than a whole volume of scientific analysis.

      —ALFRED KORZYBSKI

      The Language in Action series, sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, publishes books devoted to creative modes of expression that can open the doors of perception, and foster better understandings of the nature of language, symbols, communication, and the semantic, technological, and media environments that we inhabit. Through processes of play and probing, art can bring into awareness alternative forms of experience and evaluation to the everyday, routine, taken-for-granted world. It can also shed new light on mind and method, consciousness and culture, abstracting and attention, ecology and enlightenment, and, most important to students of general semantics, science and sanity.

      Founded in 1938 by Alfred Korzybski, the Institute of General Semantics promotes, in the words of S.I. Hayakawa, the study of how not be a damn fool. As a non-aristotelian system devoted to enhancing human potential, general semantics has inspired numerous novelists, poets, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers. General semantics today is devoted to explorations of meaning and the meaning of meaning, of metaphors and memes, archetypes and arts, symbols and signals, signs and significance, codes and ciphers, sense perception and sense-making, and the vast variety of ways of seeing, feeling, and thinking that humanity is heir to. The quarterly journal of the IGS, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, has been publishing essays, research, and literary work since 1943.

      Acknowledgments

      THANK YOU: TO Lance Strate, the editor of this series, and the Institute of General Semantics for providing a way for these poems to get out into the wider world; to Matthew Lippman for helping me to select the poems that are included in this book; to my wife, Katherine Liepe-Levinson, for agreeing to illustrate the book with her amazing photographs and for all her encouragement over the years on writing projects; to the members of the Westhampton Free Library Writers Group for their cogent comments and critiques on many of these poems; to Donna Lee McGullum for her superb editing job on this book; and to the

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