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If we take the light by which we see too much for granted, we may find ourselves lost in the dark, so that we may learn to value it properly. Wisdom arrives with a lamp and teaches us to restore within ourselves the sense of wonder we possessed as children. Our body and mind as one again, not separate as in terms of materialism and spiritualism, respectively, allows us then to perceive beings and world rather than things and the world of things.

I distinguish between modern poetry and contemporary poetry. In this book I discuss and demonstrate what I mean by the latter. One characteristic, perhaps the main one, of contemporary poetry, as of all contemporary creative art, is that thinking and feeling are one. By the same token do beauty and truth not figure separately, as illusion and opinion.This book is itself a contemporary statement in favour poetry, however entirely from a personal practitioner's point of view. I show how it can be done and do not wish to be imitated except perhaps in my belief that contemporary poetry is an eminently worthwhile activity as an aid to mature human being and life.

The author recommends these at times rather difficult essays to anyone who can no longer quite come to terms with the demands of his human nature in our present cultural environment. Their common theme might be described as the transition from modern interpretation to contemporary creation, in other words away from anxiety-based ideal constructs towards discoveries made during the search for true reality. The form is fluid, the content is thought-provoking. The notions put forward are not left in intellectual isolation but tried and tested by the author during his lifetime. In a way they present the culmination of his thought during the previous twenty years.

This book is a novel inasmuch as it encompasses the New Life, as based principally on good will and unconditional love. Not characters depict traits but persons play roles. The story at the heart of the novel is conventional, often touching, humorous, thought-provoking. In volume I the author deals with some of the problems of contemporary life in terms of friendship and family. In volume II we are invited to contemplate the implications of value joined with policy. Fantasy plays a role in the rational inception of communal existence based on sense and good will.

This book is a novel inasmuch as it encompasses the New Life, as based principally on good will and unconditional love. Not characters depict traits but persons play roles. The story at the heart of the novel is conventional, often touching, humorous, thought-provoking. In volume I the author deals with some of the problems of contemporary life in terms of friendship and family. In volume II we are invited to contemplate the implications of value joined with policy. Fantasy plays a role in the rational inception of communal existence based on sense and good will.

Fantasy, invention, personal experience - a sense of the absurd - all these play a role, separately or in combination. Taken as a whole, they are not a collection but a series, adhering to an internal, developmental element. The principle attraction, as I see it, is surely the language, the way it insists on itself as worthy of distinction and not necessarily in need of rhetorical devices.

This is contemporary wisdom literature in verse. The main theme is the cooperation of gifted human nature with divine art. The reader is invited into the process of human development and evolution. The direction is from modern to contemporary and the treatment is conventional. In Book I, after the resurrected Muse reveals herself to the disenchanted Nabataea shepherd, the earlier life of the Shepherd is then described after the manner of a symbolic discovery tour through select aspects of western culture. In Book II the Shepherd and the Muse venture forth as committed companions and the nature of their humanity unfolds in an increasingly down-to-earth setting.

This is contemporary wisdom literature in verse. The main theme is the cooperation of gifted human nature with divine art. The reader is invited into the process of human development and evolution. The direction is from modern to contemporary and the treatment is conventional. In Book I, after the resurrected Muse reveals herself to the disenchanted Nabataea shepherd, the earlier life of the Shepherd is then described after the manner of a symbolic discovery tour through select aspects of western culture. In Book II the Shepherd and the Muse venture forth as committed companions and the nature of their humanity unfolds in an increasingly down-to-earth setting.

The first of these essays points out to us what happens when we go too far astray in the direction of the convenient status quo and how bouts of hysteria can then be understood as timely reminders of the need to return to creative thought and compassion. The second essay would teach us the sheer cost of force and advocates instead a familiarity with the spirit of comfort and learning.

This difficult but important contemporary didactic work replies to the following five questions: What is our body and how can we make use of it? Why and how are we tempted to make insufficient use of it? How does our body compare to our flesh? How do we use or abuse our body and can we own our flesh? How does carnal pain relate to our flesh?