Particles of Love: (In)Complete Poems

The complete poetic works to date by the author of Songs of the Spirit, Connecticut Mountain Poems, The Search for the Real Self: Humanistic Psychology and Literature, and At the Edge of Consciousness: Transpersonal Psychology and Literature. Cover and interior art work by Paul Gobell.

Jack Heitner, Associate Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University, retired after 47 years. Jack was advisor to the university literary magazine, The Helix. He was literary editor at Peace Digest, and his earlier works include Connecticut Mountain Poems, based on his hiking and rock climbing experiences. Songs of the Spirit is centered in his spiritual adventures. He enlisted in the Marines during wartime, became a company commander, and won jumper's wings at the Army Parachute Jump School, Fort Benning ("Poem from a Parachute"). His poetry has been read and published in little magazines and at Hofstra, Cornell, and Central Connecticut State University. In his teaching adventures he has often explored where others have feared to go, including Mysticism in American literature and Mysticism in world literature. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on and teaches Melville, another writer who went where others feared to go. The titles of his earlier books, The Search for the Real Self (1978) and At the Edge of Consciousness (1986) reflect similar themes. In 1990, by invitation, on sabbatical, he lectured at three universities in China (see "Laoshan" and "Song of the Masters") and then completed the circle of the planet, visiting twenty-one cities and fourteen countries in all.