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"He came from a place where many could not say with certainty which ways were east and west, rosy dawn and golden sunset . . . the earth moods were not loved . . . Storms were not the earth breathing . . . The phase of the moon meant nothing there . . ."

Norman Gates has been a teacher since 1965. He has worked with elementary, high school, and college students. Married and the father of two children, he lives with his wife and teenage daughter in Valley Springs, California.

In the most comprehensive selection of his letters ever published, Norman Gates allows Richard Aldington to tell the story of his life in his own words. Unlike Aldington's autobiography, Life for Life's Sake, published twenty years before his death, these letters include those two important decades of his life and do not depend upon memory. Gates provides an introduction to each of the book's five sections, sketching Aldington's biography during that decade, but the reader may then listen to Aldington's own voice speaking through his letters.

Richard Aldington was married to...

Norman Timmins Gates lived a long, happy and loving life. GENTLEMAN presents family stories and some of Norman's poems about those days. The subject of the book, the love that allowed Norman to live ninety-five active, giving years, shines in all of the stories and poems from the first to the last.

One of Norman's stories was about pushing a peanut with his nose.

He said a lot of people lived as if they were pushing a peanut with their nose. They push every day, year after year, never taking their eyes or their efforts off of the peanut. Then one day when they push the peanut, it...