Dream Death

About the Book

Dream Death is a first collection of poetry from Satyananda J. Gabriel, a professor of economics and finance at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. These poems are shaped by his diverse cultural experiences, family history (spanning multiple continents), and his work on social scientific theory. Gabriel has argued elsewhere that human relationships are overdetermined. This means that every event in a society and in a person's life is significant and contributes to shaping the society and the individuals that comprise it. This idea is integral to this set of poems. More than anything else, the poet wishes to stimulate questions, to push the reader to rethink her view of other human beings, and to reinforce a sense of the infinite possibilities for future human evolution.

About the Author

Satyananda J. Gabriel is professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, academic coordinator of the Rural Development Leadership Network, and author of Chinese Capitalism and the Modernist Vision (Routledge, 2006). He has served as director of education at the Urban League and director of the Financial Services Academy in Portland, Oregon. He was also editorial director of Food First Publications, coordinator of the Volunteers in Probation Program of Multnomah County, Oregon, and president of Thunder and Visions, Inc., a public relations and advertising company. This is his first book of poetry.