By Rosa Penaloza
Meet the Author: Dennis L. Siluk
(Reviews about the author)
For the last year or so I have been writing reviews of Dennis’s work, and today I want to share with you some of his reviews and comments that other people have had. He’s got a wide variety of literature, from short stories (200+ now), articles (800+) to poems (1000+), and of course his 31 books, and he’s working on another four books, and has done about of 12 chapbooks. Most of this work has been done in the last five years, minus three books (and a leftover Manuscript from 1984, published 13 years later), six pamphlets, and miscellaneous poetry. Perhaps he is best known for his travels, he has traveled all over the world, now it is almost 27 times around the world, or as he said: 687,000 air miles, therefore, not including all the trips on the road that made. when he was young, going to San Francisco, and Omaha, along with Seattle, and the Dakotas, he lived in all of these places in the ’60s; in the 70’s he traveled all over Europe for four years, during this time he went to Vietnam, in 1971, and came back to Europe. He has now spent or made eight trips to South America, where he has his second home, and where he loves the Sierra de Huancayo. Anyway, here are the reviews:
Meet the author:
Note 1: Recent interview on Radio Programas del Perú, about his two publications: “Hechizo de los Andes” and “Poemas Peruanos”; reaching five countries, and three continents; more than 15 million people; by Milagros Valverde, 11/15/2005, 11:00 p.m. (Milagros read poems from Mr. Siluk’s two books: “The Spell of the Andes” and “The Ice Maiden”.)
Note 2: “Spell of the Andes”, recommended by the Cultural Agency in Lima-Peru; located at Alfredo Benavides # 605 – Department 201, phone number 2428942
Note 3: Interviewed by JP Magazine, the interviewer José Luis Pantoja Ventocilla, who had very positive comments and appreciation for the Peruvian Poetic Traditions and Dennis’s Contemporary Way of Life; 10/26/2005.
Note 4: Mayor of San Jerónimo, Peru, Jesús Vargas Párraga, “All mayors should recognize Dennis’s work (on his Poetic Traditions of Peru; and favorable articles for the Mantaro Valley Region) and spread it… (paraphrased : we must not hide your work)”
Note 5: 91.7 Radio “Súper Latina”, 10/19/2005, interviewing Joseito Arrieta, reaching 1.2 million people in the Mantaro Valley Region about the book “Hechizo de los Andes” (paraphrased): the Municipality and The House of Culture of Huancayo must give recognition for the work it did in the Mantaro Valley.
Note 6: Channel #5 “Panamericana” 10/16/2005, “Buenos Días Huancayo” (in Huancayo, Peru ((population 325,000)); interviewed by reporter: Vladimir Bendezú, about Mr. Siluk’s two books: ” Hechizo del Andes”, and “Peruvian Poems”: also hereinafter, the biography of Mr. Siluk.
*Note 7: Cesar Hildebrandt, Journalist and International Commentator, for Channel #2, in Lima, Peru, on October 7, 2005, presented Mr. Siluk’s book, “Peruvian Poems”, to the world, saying: “. .. Poems, it is a very interesting and important book…” (Population of Lima, eight million, and all of Peru: twenty-five million)) plus a series of other Latin American countries: it reaches some sixty-three million inhabitants, in addition, his program reaches Spain)).
Note 8: More than 240,000-visit Mr. Siluk’s website a year: see his travels and books…!
Note 9: Mr. Siluk received a signed personal photo with compliments from the Dalai Lama, 05/11, after sending him his book with a letter, “The Last Trumpet…” on eschatology.
Note 10: Electronic publication articles [Internet Magazine] 11/2005, recognized by Magazine Team, as one of the 250 best writers, out of 14,700. Christopher Knight, Publisher; annual readers: twelve million a year (or one million a month). Dennis gets about 10,000 readers of his articles, poems and stories on this site alone per month.
Note 11: Dennis L. Siluk Columnist of the Year, International Internet Magazine, Useless-knowledge.com; December 5, 2005 (Annual readers: 1.5 million).
Note 12: Dennis L. Siluk became a special author, status, for the site http://www.Freearticles.com
Note 13: Mr. Siluk’s works are found on more than 400 websites worldwide as of (early 2005)
Reviews:
Benjamin Szumskyj: Editor of SSWFT Magazine Australia
“In the pits of hell, a seed of faith grows”
“The Macabre Poems: And Other Selected Poems”,
“…Siluk’s Atlantean poems are also well crafted, from the surreal…to the majestic…and pleasant…” and the reviewer adds: “All in all, Siluk is a good poet…His choice of theme and theme are compelling and he doesn’t hold back on injecting his own personal thoughts and feelings directly into his prose, lyrics, odes and verse…” (September 2005)
“…I liked your poem [‘The Bear-men of Qolqepunku’] much. It’s a very moving piece.”
Aalia Wayfare
Internship Researcher
of the ukukus
“I just received your book ‘Hechizo de los Andes’ and I really like it.
–Luis Guillermo Guedes, Director
From the Ricardo Palma House-Museum
In Lima Peru [July, 2005]
“The original title of the book presented by Dennis L. Siluk is ‘Hechizo de los Andes’ whose poems and stories were inspired by various places in our region and can be read in English and Spanish. The book divided into two parts presents the poems that evoked the Mantaro Valley, La Laguna de Paca…Miraflores, among other places. The book is dedicated to ‘the beautiful city of Huancayo’…”
By: Marissa Cárdenas, Mail Newspaper,
Huancayo, Peru [7/9/05]
Translated into English by Rosa Peñaloza.
Mr. Siluk’s writings, in particular the book: ‘Islam, In Search of Satan’s Rib’, prompted a letter from Arial Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, along with a signed photograph. [2004]
“You are a master of the written world.” [Reference to the book: ‘Death on Demand’]
–Benjamin Szumskyj,
Editor of SSWFT magazine outside of Australia [2005]
A poetic children’s story “The Tale of Willy the Humpback Whale” 1982 Pulitzer Prize, with favorable comments submitted by the committee.
“Dennis is a prolific and passionate writer.”
–Matt James,
Editor of ‘useless. knowledge’, Magazine [2005]
“The Other Door”,… by Dennis L. Siluk… This is a collection of some 45 poems written… over a period of 20 years in many parts of the world. Siluk has traveled extensively in this country and Europe and some of his poems reflect his impressions of the places he has visited. They all have a philosophical twist. Scattered through the poems, some long, some just three lines long, are interesting lines of lyrics and descriptions. Siluk illustrated the book with his own pen and ink drawings.” –St. Paul Pioneer Press [1981)
“Your stories are wonderful little vignettes of immigrant life….
“… (The Little Russian Twins) it is affecting….”
–Sibyl-Child (a women’s art and culture journal) by Nancy Protun, Hyattsville, Md.; published by the Little Peoples’ Press, 1983
“The Other Door, by Dennis L. Siluk-62pp. $5….both stirring and mystical….”
–C.S.P. World News [1983]
