Changing Times - Couverture souple

Kearney, Adele

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1635341418 ISBN 13 : 9781635341416

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2017

Synopsis

Changing Times travels from Depression Pennsylvania to California and Rome, from coal towns with pretty names to Chinese railroad laborers. Other poems celebrate flowers, a cherished cat, a beloved daughter.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adele Kearney was born on April 7, 1931, in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. She attended Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for two years before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1950 to work for the FBI while taking night school classes at George Washington University. She graduated in 1953 and taught third grade for a year in Rockville, Maryland, then moved to California, where she studied at Stanford University. She was a technical writer for IBM for thirty years, including a year and a half at IBM Rome. She had one daughter and was active in the civil rights movement and the California Peace and Freedom Party. She died in Sacramento on September 30, 2016, heeding to the end the advice in the last line of her poem "The Streets of Rome" "Live this hour now; despair never." Changing Times is her first poetry collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1635341418
• ISBN 13: 9781635341416
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 42
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