Review
"It is easy to achieve a surface effect from the passion and intensity of romantic love but more difficuilt to sing from the wisdom that underlies all the longing. These poems are not only true to the intensity of one man's deep love for a woman, but exhilarating for their insight, humility, and humor. A remarkable literary achievement and a gift to anyone who dimly remembers, half-anticipates, or heaven forbid, is presently blessed by the rigors of a passionate love." -- David Whyte, author of The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
"More bologna sandwiches!" -- Coleman Barks, author of the Essential Rumi
"The book is a love-story--and has the timeless charm of a modern classic. Anyone who has ever loved deeply will recognize the territory. Buddhists and Sufis and lovers of all persuasions are likely to be gifting each other with THE YOU THAT IS EVERYWHERE for years and years to come." -- Anne Delacroix
"This is what Zen has needed--to marry with the troubadour tradition of ecstatic, romantic love." -- Zen Roshi John Tarrant, author of The Light Inside the Dark
A modern Troubadour has arisen! Rejoice. Rumi lovers and all who are immersed in passion's cycles. This book has to do with the heart, a river which rose unexpectedly, and flooded my banks with poems'...Highly freeform, modern-day language dances ruggedly across these pages, flowing with infectious energy and ironic humor. We trnsit attraction, lust, uncertainty, separation, grief, and renewal in touching, humble personal revelations. A psychotherapist with many prior occupations, including Zen monk and charter fisherman, Gary writes stanzas that exude powerful perennial wisdom within robust romance. Rich phrasings such as "Before I met you/I didn't know my heart was in exile..." are intricately strung among (other) pearls...and impossible attempts at understanding. Intensely real, sincerely spirited. Wow! -- Sandy Marshall, The NAPRA Review, March/Apr. 2000
Ask The Idiots
Bait For The Beloved
Be Prepared To Lose
Because They Live In It
Clueless In San Francisco
Dabda
Deep Inside You
The Dummy Of Schizoid Process
Epitaph
Forswearing All Others
Gary's Love Secrets
The Gift
Guests
The Harbor Buoy
How Could This Be?
How It Happens
I Like It
I Think Of Other Women
In Praise Of Penia
In The Biblical Sense
In Times Of Flood -- Even The Tao Overflows
Is It Strange?
It
It's Not Enough To Ask For Help
Karma
Like Bamboo
Lips Of October
Lost In Translation
Love's Double Whammy
The Mysterious Question
Now That I'm Better
Nuts
The Other Face
The Others
Out Of The Blue
The Pine Cone
Pluto
The Power Of Legitimate Suffering
Rapprochement: The Maiden Voyage
Remember
The Ring
Scraps & Crumbs
Simeon In Egypt
Sobering Up
Taking Stock At Winter Haul-out
Te
This Is What It's Like
To Meet The King
To The Core
Totally Ditto
Two That Held Fast
The Voice & Its Holder
What Did I Do To Deserve It?
What The Body Remembers
What The Walls Say
When Mary Magdalene Followed Jesus
While You Were Away
While You're Considering
Wild Hooves
You Pinch Yourself. It's Not A Dream
Your Koan For The Day
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
I was captivated by the refreshing romance of these love poems! In addition, Rosenthal's powerful poetry is reminiscent of the high Middle ages--the time of Dante, Rumi, and the troubadours. I could sense the Unseen Beloved moving through events, the Beloved that is ultimately living itself. Yet all of this is served in a psychologically astute and contemporary idiom that makes one think if Rumi or Dante fell in love today, their poetry might sound a little like this. I was left with the sense that our current spiritual culture has finally achieved a sufficient depth to have begun producing some wisdom literature of its own. -- Constance Avila, Magical Blend Magazine, Dec. 1999
THE YOU THAT IS EVERYWHERE debuts the romantic, passionate, wise, intimate, and beautifully crafted poetry of Gary Rosenthal. Rosenthal is a troubadour of impressive romantic sensibility/ -- The Midwest Book Review
"More bologna sandwiches!" -- Coleman Barks, author of the Essential Rumi
"The book is a love-story--and has the timeless charm of a modern classic. Anyone who has ever loved deeply will recognize the territory. Buddhists and Sufis and lovers of all persuasions are likely to be gifting each other with THE YOU THAT IS EVERYWHERE for years and years to come." -- Anne Delacroix
"This is what Zen has needed--to marry with the troubadour tradition of ecstatic, romantic love." -- Zen Roshi John Tarrant, author of The Light Inside the Dark
A modern Troubadour has arisen! Rejoice. Rumi lovers and all who are immersed in passion's cycles. This book has to do with the heart, a river which rose unexpectedly, and flooded my banks with poems'...Highly freeform, modern-day language dances ruggedly across these pages, flowing with infectious energy and ironic humor. We trnsit attraction, lust, uncertainty, separation, grief, and renewal in touching, humble personal revelations. A psychotherapist with many prior occupations, including Zen monk and charter fisherman, Gary writes stanzas that exude powerful perennial wisdom within robust romance. Rich phrasings such as "Before I met you/I didn't know my heart was in exile..." are intricately strung among (other) pearls...and impossible attempts at understanding. Intensely real, sincerely spirited. Wow! -- Sandy Marshall, The NAPRA Review, March/Apr. 2000
Ask The Idiots
Bait For The Beloved
Be Prepared To Lose
Because They Live In It
Clueless In San Francisco
Dabda
Deep Inside You
The Dummy Of Schizoid Process
Epitaph
Forswearing All Others
Gary's Love Secrets
The Gift
Guests
The Harbor Buoy
How Could This Be?
How It Happens
I Like It
I Think Of Other Women
In Praise Of Penia
In The Biblical Sense
In Times Of Flood -- Even The Tao Overflows
Is It Strange?
It
It's Not Enough To Ask For Help
Karma
Like Bamboo
Lips Of October
Lost In Translation
Love's Double Whammy
The Mysterious Question
Now That I'm Better
Nuts
The Other Face
The Others
Out Of The Blue
The Pine Cone
Pluto
The Power Of Legitimate Suffering
Rapprochement: The Maiden Voyage
Remember
The Ring
Scraps & Crumbs
Simeon In Egypt
Sobering Up
Taking Stock At Winter Haul-out
Te
This Is What It's Like
To Meet The King
To The Core
Totally Ditto
Two That Held Fast
The Voice & Its Holder
What Did I Do To Deserve It?
What The Body Remembers
What The Walls Say
When Mary Magdalene Followed Jesus
While You Were Away
While You're Considering
Wild Hooves
You Pinch Yourself. It's Not A Dream
Your Koan For The Day
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
I was captivated by the refreshing romance of these love poems! In addition, Rosenthal's powerful poetry is reminiscent of the high Middle ages--the time of Dante, Rumi, and the troubadours. I could sense the Unseen Beloved moving through events, the Beloved that is ultimately living itself. Yet all of this is served in a psychologically astute and contemporary idiom that makes one think if Rumi or Dante fell in love today, their poetry might sound a little like this. I was left with the sense that our current spiritual culture has finally achieved a sufficient depth to have begun producing some wisdom literature of its own. -- Constance Avila, Magical Blend Magazine, Dec. 1999
THE YOU THAT IS EVERYWHERE debuts the romantic, passionate, wise, intimate, and beautifully crafted poetry of Gary Rosenthal. Rosenthal is a troubadour of impressive romantic sensibility/ -- The Midwest Book Review
From the Back Cover
Teri Foster, Freedom, CA
"WOW! I just finished reading--nonstop--the beautiful, moving, enlightening, and yes, ECSTATIC love poems from The You That Is Everywhere. I only wish my boyfriend were 1/10th the romantic poet that Gary Rosenthal is!!
"WOW! I just finished reading--nonstop--the beautiful, moving, enlightening, and yes, ECSTATIC love poems from The You That Is Everywhere. I only wish my boyfriend were 1/10th the romantic poet that Gary Rosenthal is!!
Tom Watson, Reno, NV
Frankly, I don't like poetry that much. I rarely read it unless my wife hands me something and says, "Read this!" So I reluctantly sat down with The You That Is Everywhere and to my amazement and relief, read some incredible poetry. I actually got up and gave my wife a big hug, kiss and told her (in my less than poetic style) that I loved her. We actually read a poem or two before we go to bed to set the mood....
