Ray Greenblatt

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But if one poem convinces you to read his book it should be “From a Madhouse at Arles.” This poem indicates his skill at taking on the personality of another human being and with care and diligence portraying the life of a famous poet in this instance, Vincent Van Gogh, with an insight into the painter’s desire for an ordinary life like the rest of us.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Don Silva - author of Black Kestrel</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> About DVORAK’S GARAGE (2004)</div> <bR> <div>  These accomplished, crafted poems are noteworthy for their maturity and good sense. There is mystery in the landscape, which is held in suspension by the rational power of Greenblatt’s persona. It is the mystery one feels at the bare tip of reason’s probing. It is palpable in the landscape of picket fences, isolated highways, edges of woods. One senses it, grapples with it, and allows it, with the author, to inform and heighten the meaning of the ordinary, known world.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Ernest Yates - author of The Master of Revels</div> <bR> <bR> <div> About ERASING THE LINES</div> <bR> <div>  Thank you so much for sending “Waiting for the QE II,” “The Signing,” “Accepting Summer,” etc. I can’t remember the last time I received a batch of poems I liked so much. When my poetry editor likes them, too, I know we’re on to something.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Tom Kennedy - publisher of The Cresset</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Ray Greenblatt’s poetry is a voyage, whether it’s riding on a canal in Venice or spending some quality time with Eratosthenes in the Library at Alexandria. He is able to examine the universal truth or the quiet moment, and allows us to enter in. One moment you are a speck, surrounded by the power and fury of the ocean, the next you are sitting with Van Gogh, looking out a window, wishing for a normal life—and only you know what is to come. Ray Greenblatt writes his truth—and ours—at its simplest, and its most profound.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Dan Maguire - author of Somewhere Between </div> <bR> <div> From <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Galant" ><B>Leavings of the Evening</B></FONT><B>:</B></div> <bR> <div> CANOE ON THE BAY</div> <bR> <div> My canoe creases the tide</div> <div> as lightly as a maple seed.</div> <div> I have wiped off the grit</div> <div> of modern busyness.</div> <div> I am whole again</div> <div> I am native.</div> <div> Fresh wind gives me new breath</div> <div> a laying on of hands.</div> <div> Slight wobble of canoe</div> <div> does not well up fear</div> <div> buoyancy instead.</div> <div> What can I hear</div> <div> but the call of birds,</div> <div> marsh grass, eternal things.</div> <div> Sunlight shimmies over the water</div> <div> like primal warmth.</div> <div> Stars down in the depths</div> <div> make me feel as if</div> <div> I float over the cosmos.</div> <div> I am free</div> <div> and simultaneously</div> <div> I am part of.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Over the years Ray Greenblatt has primarily been known as a nature poet. His previous books  suggested that connection: COASTAL BREEZES, A WINDFALL OF RIVERS, TO FIND THE WINTERBOURNE, PUZZLES IN THE WOODS. His poetry has been translated into Japanese, Polish and set to music in Italy. Ray has given readings in so many venues; from a barn in Vermont, to a retirement center in Florida to a biker bar in California. He has won awards: The Mad Poets Annual Contest, Anthony Byrne Prize for Poetry, John Corcoran Award. He was nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. He writes of this new book: “I see 'evening' as the time for contemplation. In summer a cooler breeze blows in to clear the mind; winter we cozy up to a fire where new ideas can crackle. The word 'leavings' can be all those thoughts of a day; or it can be going away. This collection explores that push and pull of life, with nature the elusive factor which can keep us on the most fulfilled path.”</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Leavings of the Evening</div> <div> is a 36 page hand-stitched chapbook - $10.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <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="Leavings of the Evening"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From 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="Leavings of the Evening"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <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="Leavings of the Evening"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>