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WORKING toward her next projecj, Dorothy Gentleman, North Van poet and
author of If Time Shoald Stop and The Ring of Years, contemplates a few lines of

freshly written verse.

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June 5, 1983

DOROTHY GENTLEMAN

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DOROTHY CORBETT Gentleman has had two
notable achievements in the past year. In August
of 1982 she and her husband Bill celebrated fifty
years of marriage, assisted by their two daughters,
six grandchildren, and a host of friends. In
November of the same year, her second book of
poetry, Ring of Years, was published by South

Western Ontario Poetry.

Mrs. Gentleman's first
book, If Time Should Stop.
is in its second printing. Her
poems and short stories have
appeared in over a hundred
literary magazines in Canada
and the United States. She
has been listed in Interna-
tional Who's Who in Poetry,
Cambndge, England, and
The World Who's Who of
Women.

Though born in Boston,
Massachusetts, the poet
grew up in West Vancouver
and has contributed to the
literary scene since her early
teens, when her poetry ap-
peared in jocal newspapers.
Her poems express her love
of life and her desire to com-
municate her feelings to the
world. As she says, “I like to
create a delicate balance
between reason and im-
agination ... 1 try to com-
municate with a depth of
feeling, to evoke an emotion
and arouse a mood with
sensory images.”

She depends on in-
spiranion to “lift the veil of
realism” and make the world
of the imaginabon more real
than reality, Many of her
ideas come at night and she
rushes to clutch the in
spirauon and pin it down
before st can escape She
remembers waking one night
with a line running through
her mind “Please take this
robe and wear wt well” In
spiration fell on fertile sol,
and soon the poem = had

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“written itself.” It is “The
Robe”, the last poem in Hf
Time Should Stop.

Mrs. Gentleman helped
produce a British Columbia
magazine called 60 or Better
for senior citizens, acting as
a member of the board and
contributing poems = and
short stones. She also acts as
an Associate Editor of
Pierian Spring, a small but
prestigious magazine
published by the Pierian
Press of Brandon University.
The recipient of many
honors, she 1s an Honorary
Life Member of World
Poetry Day and a member of
Amencan Poetry League,
Amenican Poets Fellowship
Society, Christan Writers
League and Stella Woodall
Poetry Society.

Whereas If Time Should
Stop compnses poems writ-
ten in traditional style, with
even meter and Iine-end

rhymes, Ring of Years is less
formal and uses internal
speech rhythms. The’ early
images seen through the eyes
of youth have given place to
a search for the meaning of
life and the paradoxes in-
herent in living. The poems
pulse with emotion and feel-
ing, not stated but implied.
Mrs. Gentleman has said it
best in her essay Writing a
Poem: “Let your imagination
run wild — reach for the
stars, climb a ladder to the
moon and listen to the sing-
ing of angels.”

Editors have had high
praise for Mrs. Gentleman's
poetry. In the words of the
editor of The Letter Box,
Brooklyn, N.Y.. “her work
has beauty and depth,” while
the editor of Dnftwood East,
Pawtucket. R.I., finds her
poems “lovely and delicately
written.” She is currently
writing at the height of her
powers and has completed
several new poems since her
book was published. It may
not be long before we see a
new book from the pen of
this prolific writer.

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