{"id":1282,"date":"2013-10-04T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2015-12-26T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T17:07:57","slug":"the-mohican-poem-norman-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-mohican-poem-norman-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mohican.Poem.Norman Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mohican (a poem)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v6TjHHdfWMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/normball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-412\" alt=\"normball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/normball-252x300.png\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/normball-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/normball-126x150.png 126w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/normball.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NORMAN BALL (BA Political Science\/Econ, Washington &#038; Lee University; MBA, George Washington University) is a well-travelled Scots-American businessman, author and poet whose essays have appeared in <em>Counterpunch, The Western Muslim <\/em>and elsewhere. His new book <em>&#8220;Between River and Rock: How I Resolved Television in Six Easy Payments&#8221; <\/em>is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Between-River-Rock-Resolved-Television\/dp\/148953394X\">here<\/a>. Two essay collections,<em> \u201cHow Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable?\u201d and \u201cThe Frantic Force\u201d<\/em> are spoken of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Make-Your-Power-More-Comfortable\/dp\/193483212X\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Frantic-force-essays\/dp\/0980039665\">here<\/a>. His recent collection of poetry<em> \u201cSerpentrope\u201d<\/em> is published from<em> White Violet Press<\/em>. 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