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BIOGRAPHY Stephen Grosso was born in Brooklyn, NY, and spent his youth in New York City. He worked at the City University of New York until he moved to the Catskill Mountains with his wife and young son, where he devoted himself to his craft of writing. He has published 11 works of short stories, biographies, essays and poetry as well as many poems and articles in magazines. His works are a spiritual reflection on the mysteries of life, suffering and hope. He takes a hard look at the brutalizing effect of “civilization” on people and on nature. And finally, he faces his own death with fear, courage and hope. Stephen was a writer in love with the beauty of the English language and its ability to move and inspire us. His poetry and prose put into words the questions and longings we all find lurking in ourselves when we stop long enough to be aware of them. The reader will be sometimes uneasy, at times hopeful, and others sad, but never despairing. Stephen died in April 2006, still writing poetry two days before his death. |
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Pony Rider from Coney Island A young man finds an arrowhead in an abandoned cemetery in Coney Island and is transported by the arrowhead into another dimension where he encounters a spirit world of past Native Americans. This moving story, a work of fiction, is a poet’s own spiritual journey--his search for truth and the transcendent. It will uplift and inspire you. “To write about the American Indian....to
get inside him, to feel a sense of him, I have looked into my
self, that is, I have groped around looking into my own mystery.
And looking into myself, I have discovered that, despite the
thin garment pf culture that makes us appear different from one
another, we are all found in each other.” |
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Harry This is the true story of Harry Guttenplan--a crippled Jewish beggar--whom author Stephen Grosso met on the streets of New York City. Every week for three years Stephen visited Harry at his welfare paid apartment in the South Bronx and at his hospital bedside, until Harry died. During those years Harry and Stephen shared vivid moments of joy, pain and s piritual insight. On three occasions Harry’s deceased
brother Morris entered the situation in ways that defy explanation.
But the real story is the deeply human and graced friendship
of Harry and Stephen--a story you will not forget. Reviews: “I read Stephen Grosso”s compelling story__this beautiful act of faith in the truly Human__and saw Harry standing on his street corner so vividly that I had to draw him, as if from life. That the author recognized “the image and likeness of God” in my vision of Harry touches me deeply, as both witness to and celebration of the essence of shared humanness.”__Frederick Franck, artist and author |
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Experiencing Lourdes AT LOURDES, THE GREATEST MIRACLES ARE THOSE THAT TRANSFORM THE HUMAN SPIRIT. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, fourteen year old Bernadette Soubirous witnessed eighteen miraculous appearances of the Virgin Mary, who called herself the Immaculate Conception. These apparitions were authenticated by the Roman Catholic Church, and a shrine was built to Our Lady of Lourdes. More than a century later, hundreds of thousands of hopeful pilgrims continue to flock to this remote village in southern France. Some come on stretchers, others in wheelchairs. Only a few actually receive physical healing. Why, then, do so many sacrifice so much to make the trip? Stephen Grosso knows. On these pages he describes the people
and places he encountered at Lourdes one summer as a volunteer
stretcher bearer. He discovered that the pilgrims who touched him
most profoundly were those who were never released from their infirmities.
He learned what many pilgrims already knew: the greatest miracles
of Lourdes are those that touch the human spirit. It is these fortifications
of the soul that make it possible to endure suffering patiently,
to face death bravely, and to remind ourselves that earth is not
our final home. |
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Seekers and the Derelict A collection of one act plays in which various characters (the
seekers) who have lost their sense of the mystical meet with a
derelict whose simplicity offers them hope. The characters: a cynical
mystery writer, a man with AIDS, a holocaust survivor, a judge,
an atheist, a schoolteacher and a poet. |
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Holocaust Jew And The Derelict A one act play in which an embittered holocaust survivor meets
a derelict who challenges his anger and despair with penetrating
simplicity. |
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The Silence of Ireland A lyrical travel book which joyfully examines the Irish character,
the people the author meets, the spectacular countryside, and the
effects of the sea and sky of Ireland. Humorous and lively, the
book uses beautiful prose to take the reader into this Irish experience. |
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Language of the Sea Poetic prose describing the Irish seas and their influence on the people, their language and their country. (This is an except from the larger work “The Silence of Ireland). Stephen Grosso, 2000 paperback, 16 pages. $2.00 |
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Broken Earth Gripping short stories that offer a chilling look at a potential
society in which some of the worst qualities in mankind prevail.
Each story’s characters inhabit a world in which time and
space and society has been modified following a cataclysmic event.
In “The Earth” the earth itself is breaking into a
new time-space continuum and the few survivors struggle to make
sense of their lives. In “The Septuagenarian” citizens
are sent to a benign death at age 70 with the Mercy-killing By-laws.
In “The Death” survivors contemplate the devastation
following a nuclear attack. |
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City Boy Stories A delightful look at growing up in one of New York City’s
ethnic neighborhoods. This autobiographical collection of vignettes
will fascinate the reader who enjoys a peek into another era and
another culture. Some titles: “The Time They Couldn’t
Find me” , “The Nice Man”, “At My Grandfather’s
Wake”, “Promises My Mother Made Me”, “The
Day My Father Cried”, “Anything for Thanksgiving?”,
Books For a Lonely Boy”, “Lies I Told About My Father”, “The
Day I Rejected God” |
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Manhattan Sketches This short volume (51 pages) is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek look
at life and work in the “Big Apple” which the reader
will recognize as “every city”. A most enjoyable read! |
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New York City Sketches A sobering look at what urban life can do to the soul. It examines
the dehumanizing effect of noise, smells, subway rushes, continuous
lights. You will recognize it. A short read which convinces us
we need a vacation to some rolling countryside or a quiet beach! |
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Parting Thoughts A collection of essays on various spiritual themes. |
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Reflections of a Sitting Duck Little signposts indicating what the author was thinking at particular
times in his life, while working to bridge the two points separating
God from himself. |
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Stephen Grosso is, above all, a poet who can put the most difficult human experience into beautiful, simple words. His poetry is elegant, intense and easy to understand. It grips the reader with an emotional gut-wrenching force. Voices From Plato’s Cave and other
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Voice From the Cave of Old Age |
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The Dark House and Other Poems |
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