<h6><strong>Now Available!</strong></h6><p><em>Home from the Dark Side of Utopia</em> combines personal memoir with socio-political analysis in the story of a search for utopia. Clifton Ross’s journey begins on Air Force bases and in small, conservative towns in the American South. We follow his political and spiritual development from an Anabaptist peace community in the 1970s, through various forms of radical and countercultural politics, to the present-day failures of “revolutions” throughout Latin America, with a particular focus on the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. The book charts a path through good intentions, projects gone awry, and the shadow side of utopian dreams—ultimately locating hope in the social movements of ordinary people who resist the imposition of states and other actors that claim to represent them.</p><p><br></p><p>Depending on how you count them, I’ve published a dozen or so books of poetry, interviews, literary and political translation, political polemic and memoir. Here’s a sample:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.cliftonross.com/darkside/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(27, 152, 224); background-color: transparent;">Home From The Dark Side Of Utopia</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cliftonross.com/rulers/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(27, 152, 224); background-color: transparent;">Until The Rulers Obey</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cliftonross.com/translations/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(27, 152, 224); background-color: transparent;">Translations From Silence</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cliftonross.com/map-territory/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(27, 152, 224); background-color: transparent;">The Map Or The Territory</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cliftonross.com/other/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(27, 152, 224); background-color: transparent;">Other books</a></li></ul><p><br></p>
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<p>I’ve taken up a hobby of recording motion as I move through the world, and I edit this into what most call “videos” or “movies,” and the more pretentious (or formal) would call “films.” I don’t pretend to be a filmmaker, but this is some documentation of my journey through this latter part of my life. The videos are accompanied by notes to orient the viewer.</p><p><br></p>
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