Poem Into Life

About the Book

From the literary pen of poet-author Gerald Hopman, the creative brush of artist-author Norma Jean Squires, and the words of notables past and present in the sciences and religion comes this boldly imaginative picture book centering on the concept of man/woman as microcosms of an evolving universe. "What each of us is, is a clue to the universe.” The words of theoretical physicist David Bohm, among many others, are fused with art and poetry to make for an intriguing, joyful, profound exercise in imagination.

About the Author

Gerald Hopman—Born, raised in the Bronx, New York, Hopman now resides in the Los Angeles suburb, North Hills, sharing house and home with companion, collaborator, confidante, wife, artist Norma Jean Squires. Admitting to unspectacular careers in journalism and the motion picture industry as well as limited formal education, he presents the nearly 50 years of poetry in One Book as being led by ignorance, questions and the rewards of imagination. After a brief but encouraging association with the Eventorium Muse group in New York mid-1960’s Hopman withdrew from the poetry community recognizing his goals and methods were and would be not merely outside the main stream or side streams but all streams. In reviewing the themes and structure of his work Hopman has come to see how the totality of his poetry can be taken as an effort to wed at least some basics of traditional religious mysticism (particularly Jewish) and some basics of very modern science (particularly cosmology). No, but perhaps unintentionally close he advises. Let the lines decide he proposes.