Böcker av John Urban

John Urban was born at Fort Jefferson, Missouri. He attended schools in Alaska, Wyoming, and California, graduating from San Jose State College, San Jose, California with a degree in Physics, minors in Philosophy and Creative Writing. He presently lives in San Jose. His Poems have been published in the Common Ground Review, New Vision, Jet Fuel Review, The Mobius Strip, and The Rolling Stone. Three Songs for Children is his first collection of Poems.Poet John Urban considers his work to be in the Romantic Tradition of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, but distinguishes it as Transcendental Romanticism. His interests and influences include Classical Metaphysics and Modern Spirituality. As Elizabeth Porter has said of his work it is “rich with metaphysical insight” and through its meanderings “. . . our innocence is restored and we know ourselves to be the children to whom these Poems beckon.”---------------------------------------------------------------------The long-forgotten sails of windTremble upon the shoreline’s bendWhere, walking, Kathleen and ISend glances of everlasting love.From: The Cycles of KathleenThis speaks truly of the world of Three Songs for Children -- for that world is, after all, the world of “everlasting love.”