Eros: Faces of Love

About the Book

The word, Eros, names not only a Greek god of love, but also an asteroid! What does an ecstatic filled epiphany of empathic compassionate fulfillment have to do with a hard and lifeless, rocky chunk of matter? Eros: Faces of Love fearlessly enters the spiral labyrinth of this paradox. With penetratingly tender reflection and bold confessional scrutiny, the author ponders whether love is the arrival of a “longed for gift” or the disaster of “an unexpected meteor”. As sensual descriptions reveal the ecstatic delight of “islands of paradise”, passionate metaphors uncover rocky “hidden coves of scorn”. Can unsettled dreams temper the hectic race to make space ‘to love’? Can fond remembrances call one home to rest and simply let space open ‘for love’? Eros: Faces of Love opens the space of the heart for both the lover and the beloved to find out.

About the Author

About the Author Finding the Father at Table is Mr. Cannon’s second publication with X-Libris. The 2004 release of Jennifer Graf Groneberg’s anthology celebrating parenthood, My Hearts First Steps was his first publishing debut. In May 2008, he self-published a collection of poems entitled Traces of Passionate Leaves. The following December, Goose River Press released Intimate Witness: The Carol Poems, a testament to his wife’s courageous journey with cancer. Mr. Cannon has been a featured poet at Manchester Community College, CT and at local Worcester poetry venues. From 2007-2008, he collaborated with singer/songwriters John Small and Lydia Fortune. This creative venture harmoniously weaved together poetry and music. The CD, Small, Fortune & Cannon: Live at the Sturbridge Coffee House, captures some of the ‘60’s style’ coffeehouse happenings. It is available through John Small at http://www.myspace.com/johnsmallmusic. Mr. Cannon appeared in The Goose River Anthology: 2009. Presently, he contributes monthly essays of poetic reflections for The Sturbridge Times, Sturbridge, MA. Eros: Faces of Love, released in February 2010 was Mr. Cannon’s first X-Libris publication. For more information about other publications and readings, contact the author at http://www.d_rspirit@yahoo.com.