# An Infinite Human Tale

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**Author:** Carmine Dandrea
 **Pages:** 184 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:**
$20 (USD) **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-841-9 (9788181578419) FB 978-81-8157-842-6 (9788181578426)

_**About the Author**_
 Carmine Dandrea, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
and former editor of _Blossom Review_, a magazine of the arts, was educated at Hobart
College, Brown University, Elmira College and Cornell University, from where he 
received his MFA in Creative Writing. He has taught at Elmira Free Academy, Elmira
College, Corning Community College and Lake Michigan College. Mr. Dandrea served
in the United States Marine Corps and during the Korean War was awarded the Purple
Heart Medal. His poems have been published in several journals and anthologies and
over 30 of his poems have won prizes and awards. This is his third publication with**
Writers Workshop**, the others being _Heart’s Crow_ (1972) and _Liberation: A Journey
to India_ (1995).

_**Teaser**_

_Once in Korea_

Between the sun and smoke
 of napalm fires burning bright, I’m caught beneath the
brilliant sky and hold the daylight in my hands and feel its heat expand and feel
it fill my eyes.

He lies on yellow ground
 with blue sky all around; the sun bleeds red upon his 
head, and he is dead.

The hills have gone from lovely green
 to slaps of purple shade between the trees
which bend their leaves in a soothing Oriental breeze that shelters doubt.

And all at once,
 my mind blows out.

_**Contents**_
 57 poems spread over 12 sections