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The You That Is Everywhere: Love Poems

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The cover grabbed me, then I opened the pages. I longed to continue reading and ignored the phone. I read the poems aloud, then read them again. They touched my heart, and I read them to my husband. He read them to me. The author combined surrender with passion, ego with God. My book is marked up with my own thoughts! Wonderful!

I was on the lookout for a full-length collection by this author since reading Rosenthal's "Ghetto Dokusan" --which I found to be one of the most memorable poems in the Parallax Press anthology, WHAT BOOK? BUDDHA POEMS FROM BEATS TO HIPHOP. I found myself further drawn to The You That is Everywhere by the beauty of its cover, and then by the back cover praising blurbs (from David Whyte, Coleman Barks, Sam Keen, and others). But still I wasn't quite prepared for what a condensed, remarkable collection this is. By and large I've learned to be content with a new book of poems if it has at least one or two poems that I know I will want to return to, live with, and have as a part of my life. If it has more than two I feel like I've made out like a bandit, a wise purchase. Here, an amazing number of poems are "favorites" -- maybe 15 or 20. (The "light" was apparently quite steady while this book was coming to be). I can't think of a better collection of love poems to have emerged from our now fading century.

I was very moved by the depth of the maturity of these wonderfully romantic poems. In an unself conscious and deeply thought out way Gary Rosenthal has brought to us a moving and soul filled book. Coming straight from the heart, he has offered a real gift for all of us on the path of greater depth through powerful love.