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This logo is now a part of the copyright of the PHOENIX literary work. This image was retired to make way for a new life, and with permission of the City of Phoenix, rose from its ashes to serve a'new, the body of literary opus here.  

Title Phoenix

 by Dale J. Sprague

Preface
 As literary art by a subjective artist, this Phoenix opus is not created for public entertainment, but rather to sustain salient architecture, thought, emotion, knowledge, sense and sensibility of my luminous body, which serves also as introduction to myself, and my greeting to luminous neighbors. I am compelled by necessity to create this tome as an avocation to develop and preserve myself as an individual and social member, and to preserve my sense of freedom while maturing as a being.

Residence 824 NW 52nd #6
Seattle, Washington
98107 USA
Earth, Milky Way
MS-A galactic group
Email phoenix@nwlink.com
Copyright TXu 992-576 (2001)
Genre Ars Soliloquy
(a.k.a. experimental prose, mythic prose, avant garde, anti-novel, impressionism, literary art)
Inceptions 1977 (as "Opus"); 1994 (as "Phoenix"); 1995 (Phoenix website).
Website URL http://www.nwlink.com/~phoenix/
MS stats Total bytes = ~1.835 MB
Timeline Past, present, and future
Forms Quadripart composition, tone poem, variation on a theme, opinion essay, glossary, reverie, portrait, collage, treatise, manifesto.
Publication Phoenix has not been printed by a publisher as a whole. Op.15 "Apocalypsis" was printed in book form with photos (entitled "Apocalypse," J.Hwong Publishing, 1980).  Some of the shorter opus compositions (The Original Peace and Firmament of Illusion) were published as fanfold broadsides in Seattle, Washington (1979). Excerpts of Phoenix were published in various anthologies from 1982 to present. Numerous awards, but the most notable was second place for Op. 8 "Dear Conscience" from the Ashland Poetry Society, Ashland, Oregon, Aug 1984.
Work in Progress In addition to new projects, all of Phoenix is a work in progress; there is always improvement to make, but only by the one who has become more skilled and emotionally evolved.
Reading audience For me, I and we, for everyone, and everything.

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