Carmine Dandrea

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He has taught at Elmira Free Academy, Elmira College, Corning Community College, and Lake Michigan College.  Mr. Dandrea served in the United States Marine Corps and during the Korean War was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. He was a national winner in the <I>Discovery '69 Program </I>of the New York Poetry Center. His first book of poems, <I>Heart's Crow</I>, based on experiences in India, was published by P.Lal's Writers  Workshop  of Calcutta in 1972. His poems have been published in <I>Plaintiff, Transition, Ego Flights, Michigan Magazine, Husson Review, Albion </I>and other literary journals and anthologies. Over 30 of his poems have won prizes and awards. In 1977 the editors of the <I>International Who's Who in Poetry</I> awarded him a Certificate of Distinguished Contributions to Poetry<I>. </I>Wyndham Hall Press sent him to a Poetry Workshop near Limerick, Ireland, and published his book-length sequence of poems, <I>American Still Life</I>, in 1992.<I> </I>He has been a Scholar at the 1993 NEH Institute of Chinese Culture and Civilization at the East-West Center in Hawaii and has participated in the Center's 1994  Field Study in the People's Republic of China and its 1995 Field Study in India. His third book, <I>Liberation: a Journey to India,</I> was published in 1995 by P. Lal of<I> </I> the Writers Workshop of Calcutta, India. An ardent practitioner of poetry as oral art, he has read his own poetry and others' in Beirut, Istanbul, New Delhi and throughout India, in Katmandu, Honolulu, the People's Republic of China, and in the United States.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TABLE OF CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> Counting Out My Growth In Deaths     </div> <div> A Karate Expert Kills A Car     </div> <div> The 1st Of November     </div> <div> The Image In The Mirror     </div> <div> Sunrise In Chicago     </div> <div> Alone In The House     </div> <div> An Elegy In Spring     </div> <div> Rising After Midnight     </div> <div> The Man From Yesterday     </div> <div> The Flower Man Is Gone     </div> <div> An Escape From The Institution     </div> <div> A Trinity For Maladjustment     </div> <div> How The Old Man Died     </div> <div> A Report From The Clinic     </div> <div> Everything Is Springtime And Great Beauty     </div> <div> Jungle     </div> <div> Farm Auction     </div> <div> Dreamland And Charles Bukowski     </div> <div> Melville     </div> <div> Estrangement     </div> <div> On The Eve Of The Gunfighter's Death     </div> <div> Undertaking The American Dream     </div> <div> The Will That In The Sunset Finds Release     </div> <div> Dirge For The Dead Anatoly     </div> <div> Hothouse     </div> <div> A Bird In Winter     </div> <div> Upstate March     </div> <div> Visiting The Cages In Bombay     </div> <div> In The Madras Market     </div> <div> The Highway To Delhi     </div> <div> Waiting For The Third Wave In     </div> <div> To A Korean Comfort Girl, Shot Sniping     </div> <div> I Find The Dead Chinaman     </div> <div> Easter, 1951     </div> <div> Rescue By Helicopter     </div> <div> Cheese     </div> <div> The Blue Sky Motel     </div> <div> A Dead Horse In The Supermarket     </div> <div> Piece De Resistance     </div> <bR> <div> Sequence: Those Inscrutable Chinese:</div> <div>       </div> <div>        Lady With A Small Dog     </div> <div>        Lunch At The Chinese National Art Institute         </div> <div>        Shao Shi Peng Speaks Toilets     </div> <div>        Mr.Gupta, Mr. Li      </div> <div>   </div> <div> Everyone Loved Fala     </div> <div> Her Room At Night     </div> <div> The Universe Of Death     </div> <div> A Fable Of Flies     </div> <div> M. Del Papa     </div> <div> My Rich Croatian Uncle, Andy Smith     </div> <div> The School Photographer Takes My Picture     </div> <div> Dilemma     </div> <div> All The Little Comforts     </div> <div> Jumping Off The Eiffel Tower     </div> <div> I Love You, Minnie Wantagh, In The A.& P.     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> COUNTING OUT MY GROWTH IN DEATHS</div> <bR> <div> This sun-filled Sunday morning</div> <div> when I woke,</div> <div> I knew that you would  not;</div> <div> I knew that you had gone,</div> <div> and that your eyes</div> <div> were closed to Sundays </div> <div> and to sun.</div> <bR> <div> All my life</div> <div> I have counted out my growth </div> <div> in deaths</div> <div> until they have become</div> <div> the total of my time</div> <div> as every stone</div> <div> that makes a cairn</div> <div> becomes a marker of the spot;</div> <div> and your death, Grandfather,</div> <div> is only one</div> <div> among the many deaths</div> <div> I register;</div> <div> but how special to my growth</div> <div> it is, I think I know.</div> <bR> <div> At ninety years, your  mind alive</div> <div> to Sundays and to sun,</div> <div> you simply fell asleep at five-</div> <div> a quiet afternoon of naps-</div> <div> and died. No pain we knew of</div> <div> crossed you in that hour.</div> <div> Of course, you were alone,</div> <div> and that was fitting too.</div> <div> The family had gone home</div> <div> and left the dream you had</div> <div> to you .</div> <bR> <div> Who could have known,</div> <div> although we were aware</div> <div> at ninety every moment spins</div> <div> a pinwheel in the sky,</div> <div> and every arrow spun</div> <div> is ever pointed straight.</div> <div> Death smiles, sweet and sure</div> <div> as lovers do in summer sun,</div> <div> each time you close your eyes.</div> <bR> <div> With you, another part of time</div> <div> that calibrates my growth</div> <div> and scales love has gone.</div> <div> The sun of yesterday</div> <div> will not be here tomorrow.</div> <div> The sun, however, rises</div> <div> as perhaps I do.</div> <div> But you, old dial, stand still</div> <div> the farthest measure of my hour.</div> <bR> <div> I have counted out my growth</div> <div> in deaths,</div> <div> and yours is shortening</div> <div> my life's shadow.</div> <div> My growth slows</div> <div> with fainter, thinner line </div> <div> to mark my moments</div> <div> in creative light.</div> <div> The sun at noon is nude,</div> <div> and so am I.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> DILEMMA</div> <bR> <div> I've been reading evolution theory,</div> <div> trying to get back</div> <div> into the primal  mud of pond behind the farm.</div> <bR> <div> How hard it is to do</div> <div> after Adam and the naming of things:</div> <div> after the tawny lion and the slippery toad,</div> <div> after the giant Redwood and the warty weed,</div> <div> after the telescoping of giraffe,</div> <div> the chipmunk chittering and the lisp</div> <div> of squirrels sliding the telephone lines,</div> <div> after the titmouse teetering</div> <div> on the thinnest branch and the great crow</div> <div> curving through the sky</div> <div> in sheer, black-robed telegraphy.</div> <bR> <div> How hard it is to do</div> <div> after the  wonderful fib</div> <div> of Eve and Adam's rib,</div> <div> after the infamy of apple,</div> <div> the notoriety of glitter</div> <div> surrounding the snake,</div> <div> the Father filled with wrath,</div> <div> unforgiving, relentless, but</div> <div> promising some future fruit.</div> <bR> <div> I'm sure that science is a useful thing,</div> <div> but how drab and gray it is</div> <div> beside such metaphors</div> <div> that ring and sing.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Undertaking the American Dream</I></div> <div> is a 112-page hand-stitched paper book with spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE           <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino Linotype" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <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="Undertaking the American Dream"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-31"> <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>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <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="Undertaking the American Dream"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-31"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>