Outside My Window - Couverture souple

Boyd, Jack W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1500954632 ISBN 13 : 9781500954635

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

This book is a collection of poems from Jack Boyd’s personal archive. The first were written while he was a student at the University of Michigan in 1966. When he began writing poetry in the ’60s, the Vietnam War was very much on his mind. He managed to complete his undergraduate degree and travel to Kenya to teach in the Peace Corps. Although he taught English and English literature there, when he returned home, he earned a graduate with a master's in social work. He entered a career in human services and was preoccupied by this work and other events in his life until thirty years later when he revived his passion for poetry. He now makes poetry and writing his life within his life. One group of poems recall his Peace Corps Volunteer work as a teacher in the Western province of Kenya, East Africa. The majority of the poems included here were written between 1996 and 2000 while he was an employee of the Phoenix Indian Center, a non-profit agency serving urban Native Americans in various stage of emersion in the White Man's world. Many document his observations of the world through his front window, extend to territory within miles of his home, and then to other sacred places, such as the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, and beyond.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jack Boyd was born in Detroit, MI to parents who had emigrated from Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature and then served as a Peace Corps teacher in Kenya, East Africa. Upon returning to the U. S., he got his Master’s in Social Work and then worked with abused and neglected children and poor families in Michigan. After moving to Arizona, he provided social services to urban Native Americans at the Phoenix Indian Center. He has written three novels in addition to this collection of poetry. His first novel, Mary Wallace Roanhorse chronicles the saga of a Navajo woman struggling with her identity in a time of a fictional modern crusade. His second, Made of My father, is a sequel to the first and follows her quest to find justice for herself childhood abuse. His third novel, “The Reluctant Volunteer,” is the story of an elderly man transformed by his volunteer work with a terminally ill boy. All four books are available and more information is available at https://sites.google.com/site/writersode/.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1500954632
• ISBN 13: 9781500954635
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg