What Readers are Saying about Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times
“I love this book! It’s really important stuff, a total statement of where we are now – and the underlying cause of what’s wrong with everything. Gary Rosenthal is modern-day bard, a poet/wise person all rolled into one, and he’s also a psychotherapist. He brings healing and cultural critique, while serving as a custodian of our culture’s storehouse of myths. And he provides all these things in his new, nonfiction book, Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times.
“This is a very profound book. Normally I would skim a book before doing an interview when I’ve heard it’s good, as his is, but I couldn’t stop turning the pages. What I love about it, too, is that it creates a great deal of awareness about what we’re facing in America. It’s amazingly elucidating – I just felt wiser and uplifted from knowing what the book shares. So I want to congratulate him on writing in a way that produces that effect.”
JACK CANFIELD
Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Endorsements for You That is Everywhere: Love Poems
“It is easy to achieve a surface effect from the passion and intensity of romantic love but more difficult 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
“Gary has written a book that I encourage you to get, called The You That Is Everywhere. I don’t usually like poetry much, but I read this book cover-to-cover in one sitting. I kept dog-earing pages – I’m going to read this one to my wife, and sent this one to my secretary, that one to my son. It’s really a great book.”
JACK CANFIELD, Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul series
“… (A) passionate outpouring of love, the poems drawing inspiration from Dante, Rumi and medieval troubadours. While expressive of a fine poetic sensibility, they are also accessible, revealing a very human author who, while tracing a story of earthly love and longing, also encounters the Divine.”
MORGAN VAN WYCK, SHAMBHALA SUN
“This is what Zen has needed – to marry with the troubadour tradition of ecstatic, romantic love.”
ZEN ROSHI JOHN TARRANT, Author, The Story of the Buddha
“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
“The book is a love-story – and has the timeless charm of a modern classic. Anyone who has ever loved deeply will recognizd 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
“Good stuff, lots of surprise, like finding a penny on the ground and getting good luck for the rest of the day – an unexpected delight.”
SAM KEEN, Author, Fire in the Belly : On Being a Man
“A modern troubadour has arisen! Rejoice. . . . This book ‘has to do with the heart, a river which rose unexpectedly, and flooded my banks with poems. . . .’ Highly freeform, modern language dances ruggedly across these pages, flowing with infectious energy and ironic humor. We transit attraction, lust, uncertainty, separation, grief, and renewal in touching, humble, personal revelations . . . 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 OF BOOKS
“More bologna sandwiches!”
COLEMAN BARKS“
. . . The psychologically astute and contemporary idiom makes one think that 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.”
COLEMAN BARKS“
. . . The psychologically astute and contemporary idiom makes one think that 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.”