What is the Land of Nod?
Dr Mannan creates worlds that expands a sense of who we are as humans and ponders the unique strange and wonderful dimensions of ourselves” - LEE MASON,
“Mannan’s NOD is an imaginative “Alice in Wonderland” on steroids. full of nutty kings, royal frogs, talking trees, wicked walls who swallow people, and damsels who save the world”
What to Expect?
Every week I share whispers from the Land of Nod that delight the senses and make you ponder the wonder and beauty of this wild existence.
All of the Worlds seen and unseen are composed of words ( messages to be read by the mind )and the universe is but a single unified verse
wrapped in the wonderment of ONE Who by utterance created the Poetry of Existence
So whether I meet you on the Mountain of Reason (Rational Discourse), The Forest of Feelings (The Jungles of Emotion)
or in The Desert of Our Desires, we all live together between a dot at the end of one sentence of time and a dot at the end of another sentence of time.
The period of time of which I speak is called a generation! The question is: what will we generate? What will be said of how we lived?
And what we did with the time given us?
Now that my friend is the grand question mark in the story of a man
Life is a story lived and a book written by THE PEN of thoughts words and deeds
A MOST SACRED BOOK STORED IN THE LIBRARY OF CONSCIENCE
Who is Dr. John Mannan?
Dr. John “Satchmo” Mannan is the nom de plume (penname), if you will, of Dr. Mujib Mannan retired Professor of the American Experience Law, Literature and History at the College of New Rochelle, University of the Virgin Islands and other university venues for nearly 30 years. Dr. Mannan, as a person, is interested in the entire 360 degrees of life beyond his doctorate and graduate degrees in jurisprudence, history, etc. The author is an educator, lawyer, historian, poet, short storyteller, essayist, jazz musician, marketing consultant and executive director of an affordable housing initiative in Harlem.
Born in Harlem, the author has written several books, including “Cultural Imperialism,” “The History of the Harlem Mosque,” “The Legend of Lute,” “Tales of the Nightingale,” “The Arabic Words in the English Language,” “The Rubiyat of Abdul Mannan,” etc.
His poetry is in several anthologies, but under an earlier nom de plume John McRae. These poems include “Ghetto 68,” “We Be Word Sorcerers,” “Three Hundred Sixty Degrees of Blackness,” etc. Other venues such as the African Sun Times, Living City, The Thinker have published his work under the name Mujib Mannan. His “Peace Haiku Collection” has been chosen for inclusion in the city of Philadelphia “Peace Project.”
In 2016, Aladdin Books International published his collection of short stories called: “Mubassa’s Dream” and “18 Legends from The Land of Nod”. This book geared for all ages (8to 98) was a tonic for the human imagination while it tackled moral and sociopolitical issues while using myth and allegorical tool of a bedtime story.
In 2018, he was an International Jazz Day Awardee for his contribution to jazz and during the same year he was a featured performing artist at Carnegie Hall’s, “A Gathering of Eagles.” His Jazz CD, “Ten O’clock Jazz” was released December 2014 by New Savoy Records.
The author’s many interests and skills have enriched his human experience and the lives of those around him.
