Dane Gordon

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Gordon</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="41e5e3a0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="570" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>T</I><I>he Wound of Faith </I>is a powerful meditation on the challenges of and to faith.  It is deeply philosophical and movingly personal at the same time....   Emotionally and intellectually, this is a far-ranging collection of poems, some sweet, some heart-breaking, some very abstract.  I believe it's a book that readers will want to read through, rather than pick up and dip into.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  Dr. Anne Coon, emeritus professor of English Literature,</div> <div> College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>After Due Time</B></div> <bR> <div> "After due time,"</div> <div> Walt Whitman wrote</div> <div> to a grieving mother,</div> <div> "the meaning appears</div> <div> to the soul."</div> <div> We wait for the appearance.</div> <div> We call for the faith</div> <div> that can enable us</div> <div> to do so.</div> <div> We call for what</div> <div> we cannot create</div> <div> or control,</div> <div> an assurance that comes,</div> <div> we know not from whence,</div> <div> yet leaves us,</div> <div> we know not why</div> <div> or for where.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Apart From Vision</B></div> <bR> <div> Sight that sees apart</div> <div> from vision</div> <div> tells me what the</div> <div> evidence of my life</div> <div> teaches is not</div> <div> possible.</div> <div> A bird drawn by</div> <div> instinct crosses</div> <div> oceans and continents.</div> <div> We are drawn by</div> <div> something to cross a</div> <div> kind of infinity</div> <div> and find ourselves</div> <div> flying there with wings</div> <div> that are not our own.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Born in London, England, Dane Gordon served in the Royal Navy during World War II.  He has degrees in history, theology, and philosophy from Cambridge and London Universities in England and the University of Rochester in the USA.  He is an emeritus professor of philosophy from Rochester Institute of Technology and a retired Presbyterian minister.  His most recent poetry publications are <I>St. Petersburg: Poems </I>(FootHills Publishing, 2007) and <I>The</I> <I>Logic of Death </I>(FootHills Publishing, 2009)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Wound of Faith<FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#002060" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><I> </I></FONT></div> <div> is a 92 page hand-sewn paperbook with spine - 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War is between people. I remember watching a television news report of an attacking force shelling a town. Little puffs of smoke rose above the houses where the shells exploded. They looked almost harmless, but wherever a shell exploded it destroyed a home and often the family who lived there. The bland reporting that accompanied the footage was painful to watch.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>From the book:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Logic of Death</B></div> <bR> <div> When the battle is over</div> <div> and the field is still</div> <div> the differences between</div> <div> those who lie there</div> <div> are reduced to quiet</div> <div> sameness.</div> <bR> <div> They lie (we say) in</div> <div> peace.</div> <div> That is what they</div> <div> fought for.</div> <div> But could it have been</div> <div> achieved</div> <div> other than by death?</div> <div> When we ask them</div> <div> they don't answer.</div> <div> They are dead.</div> <div> We are alive.</div> <div> We can ask ourselves,</div> <div> perhaps even answer.</div> <bR> <div> But enmeshed in our</div> <div> self-conflicted life</div> <div> we do not know.</div> <div> Could we,</div> <div> could we leap forward</div> <div> to the peace of</div> <div> death</div> <div> and bring it back?</div> <div> Could we carry it in</div> <div> our arms</div> <div> like a white figure,</div> <div> and place it gently</div> <div> at the heart of</div> <div> our life?</div> <div> Then we might live</div> <div> as if our animosities</div> <div> were over.</div> <div> Then we might be</div> <div> at peace.</div> <div> Or is the logic of</div> <div> death the only way</div> <div> to find what eludes</div> <div> us in the illogic</div> <div> of life?</div> <bR> <bR> <div>     <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >The Logic of Death</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" > is a 104 page </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >hand-stitched paper book with spine - $16.00</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U><B>To order through mail click here.  </B></U></A><B>   </B></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </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="The Logic of Death"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <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="The Logic of Death"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <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="The Logic of Death"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <div> **************************************************</div> <div> AWAY #4</div> <div> Dane R. 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