Doug Bentley

Growing up in southern Manitoba, Gander Stake learns to love the prairie, not for its vistas, but for its animal life and for the magic of the new machines that make it prosper. More agonizingly; however, he must learn how to love both his family and his grade-school sweetheart.

An eclectic compilation of thoughts, musings, rants, observations, fears and hopes, Philosophical Fragments Of Your Ancient Name takes you on a journey of self-discovery from the outer edges of our solar system to the sanctuary of your soul - and beyond! The book is divided into three parts: on Science, Christianity and Mysticism. Like adjacent letters in a word which are distinct from each other but follow underlying patterns the fragments assembled in it are puzzle pieces which each reader’s imagination must juggle and fashion. And you need not be a scholar or an expert in any of these fields to enjoy it. For this is a book written by 'everyman' for 'everyman.' My goal is that by the end of it the reader will have fitted together a few more fragments of our always already here changeless original face: the face we all share, the face of humanity itself. For our ancient name is none other than the name we all share. That name is 'everyman;''everyman'- he who speaks by the authority of being a human being, an authority in which we all participate. CONTENTS Preface: A Confession The Light Bearer Who Bringeth Darkness Enter The Light Bearer Erasing The Rubicon Of Consciousness Into The Eye Of Darkness This Requires Further Study Fukushima Daiichi Super Bugs Me Educating The Angry Mime Robot Paranoia Will Destroy Ya Mime Your Business Kid Dying In A World Of Maya The Mephistophelean Manifesto Losing My Religion Live Confessions Of A Backslider Christianity: The Essential Plot The Plot Sickens And Sickens .... The Tithes Of Prey At The Crossroads The Darkness Who Bringeth Forth Light A Qubit For Your Thought The Romance Of Lord Krishna And Radha The Nada Of Physics Pinning The Axis Mundi Parting The Veil Into The Illumining Darkness GO: The Human Tragedy Revisited References

One might expect that a book of poetry titled A Canadian's Poems would comprise only poems about Canada. This is not the case here. In our new global theater of "www." national identities and cultures no longer define our artistic materials. The objects of art are now global in scope, not local. For the web has made it possible for poets from all countries to come together and share their cultures and their insights with each other. The web has also generated a new appreciation of English poetry and of the English tongues worldwide. The poems here are a selection of ones which reflect the global influence of "www." and its non-localizing action on the content of artistic materials. A Canadian's Poems, truly one of the best kept secrets in Canadian English Poetry today, has gone global, and you are about to discover what all the buzz is about.