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The Hounds of Love
by Mark Allen Gray
Poetry
96 pages
LCCN 2004111551
Published September 2004
$1.95 US eBook, ISBN 0-9761095-0-6
$5.95 US, £4.99 UK, Paperback, ISBN 0-9761095-1-4
  "The
Hounds of Love is a compilation of fifty-eight of Mark Allen Gray's
expertly sculpted free verse poems that explore the many facets of love.
Written over a span of twenty-seven years, these poems candidly portray
the diverse emotions ignited by love and intimately felt by the poet.
Gray states that in case the readers have experienced any of these
feelings, they will understand that love "is free and it is loose and it
is dogged by all of us, relentlessly. Like a pack of hounds on a hunt,
it is a game, with one prize, and one loser.""
—
BookWire Review, May 18,
2005
About the Book
The
Hounds of Love is a collection of poems that tell a familiar story in an
unrestrained free verse form. This is a story of love discovered, love lived,
love lost, and love resolved and rediscovered. In this story, love has no form, no rules, and
no boundaries. It is free and it is loose and it is dogged by all of us,
relentlessly. Like a pack of hounds on a hunt, it is a game, with one prize, and
one loser.
Love is
a big subject to explore. Writers and artists of all types have been driven by
its mystery, thrill, and madness for many millennia. It is the author’s hope
that the reader will find some entertainment or healing value in this small
story.
About the Author
 The
author, Mark Allen Gray, holds a Master of Science degree in computer
science from Johns Hopkins University. Since childhood, Mark has been an
avid student of literature and enjoys writing, in particular, capturing
and condensing life events and emotions into poems. Mark’s style draws
on the creative, logical, and technical elements of computer science in
his professional life and blends them with the raw emotional events and
experiences of his personal life within a social and political framework
that nurtures freedom. Mark’s major literary and poetic influences
include Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Jim Morrison,
and Charles Baudelaire.
Excerpt
Where is the love?
Is it in a mother
When she looks on the face
Of her sleeping son?
Is it in a man
When he holds her hand
And understands?
Is it in the boy
When he says out of the blue,
“I love you Mom and Dad”?
Is it in the man on
the cross
When he asks his God
“Please forgive them”?
Humanity has spent
centuries
Trying to define love
But there is no question
That we can find love
Wherever we find humanity
I am both sad and
glad
To be human
My cats are gentle soft ebony
Do they have an
opinion
Of their felinity?
Reviews
"Overall, I
like the authenticity of the poetry; it seems to come from real
experiences and the feelings that they evoke. This is the foundation to
all really good poetry. The best poems are those that are concrete. In
particular, "Where is the Love?" and "She Left Me" have images that a
reader can grab onto and rhythms that get into the "body" of the
reader--not just the mind."
—
Dr. Brad Hollingshead
"Mark Allen Gray is an important new voice in the
poetry genre. His book, The Hounds of Love, captured my interest from
the first poem to the last. The raw emotion evinced in his narrative is
at times painful, yet always truthful, for lost love is a universal
hurt. On the flip side, his sensitive, gentle portrayal of love found
gives hope to us all that goodness will ultimately prevail. A searing,
insightful read."
— Vivian Copeland
"I found the
book to be
a good chronicle of life. It is something to cause reflection. Whether
the reader relates to a certain passage or not, it makes him think of
his own experiences in the manner you portray life in your passages.
Also, I found enough mystery from one passage to another to keep me
interested in continuing to the next. I think that is the secret to good
writing. The stages of love I think are well defined, however, I would
like to see more passages in the last one on Resolve."
—
Mark Saad
"I
read your book in one sitting and then re-read some parts again. I was
utterly transported by the authenticity and artistry of your work. Even
though each poem is unique in terms of the mood, shades of color, sounds
and feelings it evokes, altogether they make a very meaningful whole.
The shifts in emotions come through very powerfully by the various
rhythms of the free verse, by the anaphora, and the alliterations which
create a sense of immediacy. Although Love with all its twists and turns
and with all the multiplicity of thoughts and feeling that accompany it
is the theme that connects the poems, reading them on a fall day's
afternoon as the light was gradually fading, brought into my
mind universal themes of life, death and regeneration, of our total
human vulnerability in this vast universe, and our deep-seated need for
human connectedness to keep us from falling into the abyss."
— Miriam Adelstein
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