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Dane R. Gordon

Saint Petersburg

Dane Gordon was born in London, England.. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. For several years he was a professional actor in London and for a time worked as a nursing assistant in a London hospital for mentally disturbed children. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge; of London University, and of the University of Rochester, receiving degrees in history, theology, and philosophy.

For thirty-eight years Gordon taught philosophy within the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology. His specialty was philosophy of religion and ethics. In the academic year 1996-97 he received the Eisenhart Outstanding Teacher Award.

Throughout his life, Gordon has been connected with books, as a bookseller in London, an editor and a writer. Among his various publications are Thinking and Reading in Philosophy of Religion; A Feeling Intellect and a Thinking Heart; The Old Testament in its Cultural, Historical and Religious Context: and (as editor) Philosophy in Post-Communist Europe. He has written poetry since he was a teenager. Saint Petersburg is his first book of poetry.

Gordon and his first wife, Elizabeth, a research chemist, were married for thirty-five years. She died of cancer in 1987. Together with his wife Judy, whom he married in 1991, Dane his traveled and taught in Eastern Europe and Russia. He considers himself extremely fortunate in marriages to two women who have provided him with their love, encouragement and, when needed, their forthright criticism.

Professor Gordon is a Presbyterian minister, soon to celebrate his fiftieth year in that office.

From the Book:

Potatoes

The man at the vegetable

stall in the market

laughed so hard at my

clumsy Russian, when

I bought a kilo of

potatoes on my way

home, that he gave

me a five hundred

ruble note in change

for a hundred.

When I gave it back

he stopped laughing.

A Small Consideration

For a small consideration

she could take us in.

We were part of a long

line waiting to enter

the Hermitage.

It would be another half

hour before we got

to the entrance.

Then a lady approached

and spoke (in Russian)

to two students who

were with us.

This lady works at the

Hermitage, they explained.

For a small consideration

she could take us in

directly.

My puritan sensibilities

were slightly troubled

but the students were delighted,

so I agreed.

We went in through

a side door, leaving the

long line waiting.

This City is Embraced

by its History

This city is embraced

by its history.

Sometimes the embrace is

gentle, sometimes iron

bound.

There are those for whom

the white nights of

St. Petersburg are a halo,

the dark days of winter

a shroud.

These people wonder,

as they try to understand,

what phase of its history

the city is passing through.

Saint Petersburg

is a 60 page hand-sewn book with spine - $12.00

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