POTHOLES & Other Poems


Book Description

These poems fall into both categories - poetry, free verse - but the vast preponderance incorporate rhythm and rhyme. They are not sing-song, mostly deal with serious subjects, and are designed to make a point or at least provoke thought, the antithesis of purposeful obfuscation. Some are blatantly spiritual, patriotic or political, with some of the latter applicable to a particular timeframe or personage(s).




There's a Hole in My Sidewalk


Book Description

Designed to inspire self-discovery, "There's a Hole in My Sidewalk" contains more than 100 touching poems that gently guide readers to a more authentic and fulfilling life.




GONE SECULAR & Other Poems


Book Description

poems having to do with everyday life-experiences featuring rhyme and rhythm mostly, rather than free verse




TWILIGHT & Other Poems


Book Description

This collection covers many subjects - though the element of time might be considered its keystone - a sort of sequel to earlier collections entitled HOURGLASS & Other Poems, POTHOLES & Other Poems, and Time Alone? & Other Poems. Twilight is just another time-setting and can stand for a particular period in one's life or an institution or nation. In the writer's view, the nation, besides suffering under poor governance currently, is also suffering a psychological emergency, with the government aiding and abetting - if not causing - a moral decline. While sin is defined by God, morals are determined by the individual, so there's wild disagreement with that statement but to each his own, and each is entitled to his own soapbox, teleprompter, pulpit or poetry collection. Religion (including religious practices...or malpractices) is also an important subject handled in this offering.




AVENGED & Other Poems


Book Description

poems about the modern scene, especially mores and terrorism




GOMORRAH & Other Poems


Book Description

poems that deal with everyday life, including the areas of culture, religion, morality, government, race, creed and short vignettes of the routine events affected by same




LONG-IN-TOOTH & Other Poems


Book Description

rhyme & rhythm verses depicting everyday life and world affairs




Potholes in the Road


Book Description

Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students must surpass in order to make transitions successfully from high school to college. With rigor and compassion, and engaging in participant observation to examine how individual students confront the education system, Potholes in the Road shows how obstacles related to issues of structure, culture, and agency make achieving the American Dream through education particularly challenging.




Napolo and other poems


Book Description

This collection of verse contains poems from Malawi's foremost writer, most of which were written in the 1970s. Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and children's author Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo was born in Zomba, Malawi, and educated at the University of Malawi, the University of Wales, the University of Leeds, and Columbia University. Mythology and oral culture inform his poetry, and he frequently used both modernist techniques and wry humor to address political themes.




REGULATOR & Other Stories


Book Description

Eleven short stories designed to cover all aspects of society, especially government, religion, academia and those, elected and appointed, to be leaders in those areas.