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Survival: (Despite Excellent Advice to the Contrary)

Survival: (Despite Excellent Advice to the Contrary)

          
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I put this collection of poetry together the winter of 2011 when we rented a small cottage on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine. I placed several of these poems online and one or two others in print on actual paper that you can hold in your hand. The majority of them I have kept private, for I have never been in any great hurry to get around to gathering, winnowing, and then releasing them to the light of day. After all, it is not a modest impulse to release a book of poems-even a self-published volume such as this one is. Hubris is attached to the action and the belief that the reader might find a poem or two in the collection that strikes a chord, calls forth a similar feeling, or perhaps a memory or two long buried because pain is what one usually associates with such memories. In this regard, I plead guilty to being immodest.SURVIVAL, as the rather dramatic title suggests, is a record of such memories and reflections born of my own journey. It is not the complete mapping of the twisting road I have taken over the years. Whether another portion of the map will ever get into print is not dependent at all on how these tracing of one man's passage are received, but on my willingness to pick up the trail where I stopped the inward hike.W. HouzeWells, MaineAugust 13, 2012
About the Author: I was born in Texas in 1942 and have traveled widely in the States, in Europe, and in the Far East. After being kicked out of college, I joined the Marine Corps in 1962, did one tour in Viet Nam, was discharged as a Sergeant in 1966, and later on earned a Ph.D. in Literature from Syracuse University. At one time or another, I have made a modest living as a professor, a cabinet maker, an IT consultant, and some-time writer. (First two books were co-authored in the infancy of the PC era; they focused on the Kaypro PC its bundled software.) When not in Maine summer and fall, I am on s/v Shadow Line, an old ketch out of Key West, with my wife Lin and our English Springer--Conrad II. We plan on sailing to the Bahamas in the off Hurricane season of 2013-14. I am on the downwind leg of a journey that began two years ago--writing my first novel. With any luck, I will have the book completed by end of 2012.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780615500317
  • Publisher: Weather Helm Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Weather Helm Publications
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: (Despite Excellent Advice to the Contrary)
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0615500315
  • Publisher Date: 14 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 104 gr


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