John Smelcer

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Reading these poems teaches us that poetry is necessary.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                     John Updike</div> <bR> <bR> <div> “No matter what the specific subject, all the poems in this splendid collection speak about the ways in which we are separated from one another, about all the ways language fails us and all the ways it does not. Smelcer's book gives us hope that poetry and its precise and symbolic language can save us.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Maria Mazziotti Gillan</div> <div> Winner of the American Book Award for </div> <div> <I>All That Lies Between Us</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>From the book:</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> TIANANMEN SQUARE</div> <bR> <div> <I>“Protest beyond the law is not a departure </I></div> <div> <I>from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”</I></div> <div> <I>                           -Howard Zinn</I></div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> I remember I was terrified</div> <bR> <div> standing there before the column of tanks,</div> <div> the growl of engines; the reek of diesel.</div> <bR> <div> It's not like I planned it or anything. </div> <div> It just happened. I'm a temperate nature. </div> <bR> <div> But something snapped inside me-</div> <div> the injustice of it all. I had to do something.</div> <bR> <div> I know you would have, too.</div> <bR> <div> I didn't mean to change the world that day;</div> <div> I was just on my way home </div> <bR> <div> from buying groceries.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>WHAT WILL REMAIN</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>after the Binghamton massacre</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> What will remain in the void of Presence:</div> <bR> <div>      Sorrow, Guilt, Courage, and Faith.</div> <bR> <div> Above all-this-memory's cherished Love.</div> <bR> <div> Although Despair knocks with both fists,</div> <div> Hope leans on the doorbell.</div> <bR> <div> After the tempest, sunlight through cloudbreaks-</div> <div> So much optimism from such a grieving sky.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> John Smelcer is the author of over forty books. His novel, <I>The Trap</I>, received the James Jones Prize for the First Novel and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association and the New York Public Library. His follow up novel, <I>The Great Death,</I> is also published worldwide. His northwest coast cultures mythology books include <I>The Raven and the Totem </I>(introduced by Joseph Campbell), <I>In the Shadows of Mountains</I>, and <I>A Cycle of Myths. </I>His nonfiction book <I>The Day That Cries Forever </I>was adapted into a play. His poems, stories, articles, and essays have appeared in over 400 magazines, including <I>The Atlantic</I>. His poetry books include <I>Changing Seasons, Songs from an Outcast, Without Reservation</I>, <I>Riversongs, Loonsong, </I>and several bilingual collections including,<I> The Indian Prophet </I>and<I> The Language Raven Gave Us</I>. His education includes advanced studies in English literature at Oxford and Cambridge. He is the Clifford D. Clark Fellow in literature and creative writing at Binghamton University.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Binghamton Poems</div> <div> is a 100 page hand-stitched  paper book w/spine.   $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada        <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Binghamton Poems"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Binghamton Poems"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-14"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <bR> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>