A Review of Different Drummers, by Kevin Cummings, with poetry by John Gartland
(Frog in the Mirror Press, 2019). ISBN: 978-0-692-19767-7 (paperback) You never know where the connections you make in life will lead. Simply saying yes to opportunity, out of curiosity or even as a courtesy, can open doors to whole new worlds, whole new places, that you never knew existed. In the twenty-first century, where everything is divided into Us and Them and the Other might as well live in another solar system where their rituals and culture are uber-alienated by some shadowy cabal that has engineered itself to make such decisions, feeding them down through indoctrinal water-drips to the TV-zombied hamster-people, it is imperative to learn about other places, other sub-sets of society. And to learn about and from what occupies the time of the thinkers and artists that reside there. For this reason alone, Different Drummers is a primer on Thailand and an invaluable read. So… that saying yes I mentioned. It happened a decade ago, when I received John Gartland’s Grav