How could I not be among you?

By Ted Rosenthal and Thomas Reichman

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807607142
• ISBN13: 9780807607145
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: G. Braziller
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ted is among us still

I first read this book at least 30 years ago. At the time I was part of a movement meant to assist persons who were terminally ill in coming to terms with what was happening to them. I picked up the book because of the title, the subject matter and the fact that it was a chronicle of one man's journey through his life and his illness. I was haunted by the beauty of his poetry and his honesty about his life. I recall that a professor in California prominent in developing crisis centers and death & dying courses rejected Ted publicly for something he had done in his private life. I disagreed vehemently with the professor. I could only think at the time that no one can prescribe or decide how one should live his life other than the person. Then too each of us must die in our own way. The title he gave his book and the refrain in it, "How Could I Not Be Among You," have haunted me these many years. Ted Rosenthal made certain that he would be among us, at least some of us, though he might not be physically present, but would be here in our memories and on our bookshelves. It has been a privilege to know him.

a teaching in living

Just finished reading the book and felt an urge to write a review for the first time so that maybe others will want to read it and take a different look at life. This man succeeded in expressing in a few simple words deep thoughts about life and deaf which should have anyone reading this book stop and think. Thank you Ted Rosenthal, wherever you are now, for sharing this with us.

Wonderful work

I fully agree with the last reviewer. I was in a grad school class in '88 or so, I guess just after this was published, and we read various "Testimonies of the Human Spirit" as the prof called the class. I was profoundly moved by this writing, the spontaneity of images and impulses, to run barefoot in the grass, feel the mud on his feet, the rain on his head, to poorly paraphrase. Reminds you and me to live as if this were our last day. And, collectively, that could be, here in 2006 with fascism and global destruction on the march. A different dimension of the subject, but think about it.

Amazing heart touching poetry

At the age of 30 Ted was told he had cancer, what follows is the writings of a man discovering a nwe kind of freedom to give himself totally to the things he loved. Read it and it will change your life, I read it first 25 years ago and some of his poems and prose still resonate with me daily