Navigating the Course:
A Man's Place in His Time

 

A memoir by David Fanshel

 

David Fanshel was born in New York City in 1923, third of four children of immigrant Russian Jewish parents. As a teenager in the midst of the Depression, David watched his father struggle to support his family as a fruit wholesaler. When tragedy struck in 1936, the support of a network of extended relatives saved the family from disaster, but could not spare them from the stresses of their circumstances, which had significant ramifications for the younger generation.

A freshman at the City College of New York when war was declared in December 1941, David enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and served three years active duty from 1943 until 1945. He was commissioned as a navigator and flew 39 missions with the 15th Air Force 450th Bomb Group, 722nd Squadron, in Manduria, Italy. His targets included Ploesti, Vienna, Munich, Budapest, Toulon, and Athens. The only Jewish member in an air crew of ten men, the shared experiences in meeting the demands of combat had a transforming influence upon him and helped to overcome a xenophobic view of “goyim” brought by his immigrant family from oppressive experiences in pogrom-ridden czarist Russia.

Softover, illustrated, 224 pages, $25.00
Valley Meadow Press
ISBN 978-0-9723269-6-4
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David Fanshel
The Redwoods
40 Camino Alto
Mill Valley, CA 94941

The More Difficult Beauty

 

Poems by Molly Fish

 

"Molly's voice is crisp and decided yet relaxed and just close enough somehow... and the pieces all are impeccably shaped and written. Fearless, clear-eyed work."

— John Updike

"It is good to wake and realize that Molly is paying attention, has paid so much attention, and we are not lost. What a fine poet! She is the real thing!"

— Lucille Clifton

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Passsing Through

 

Poems by Charlotte Schmid

I always look forward to the worlds into which Charlotte’s poems will invite me — worlds that always connect the individual and the community, the yearner and the Beloved, the lover of nature and one who recognizes the complexity of our own and the world’s Nature. In“Brewing Tea,” for example, Charlotte takes us with her from a sip of tea to the harsh realities of how that tea comes to us, how we cannot separate our simple pleasure from laborers’ inequities, global disparities, and always our spiritual responsibility to be awake. Her poems call us to be fully alive and connected.

— Monza Naff, Ph.D., author of Healing the Womanheart.

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