The Last Place on Earth - Couverture souple

Claxton, John

 
9781800167704: The Last Place on Earth

Synopsis

In this autobiographical book of poems, the arc of a life is considered from childhood to last days, ‎ each poem a stop along the way.‎ From remembering how his mother wrote, "A bird /‎ skipped across the surface of the page." To considering how he might choose to spend his last moments,‎ ‎"I would read out loud / the way you sometimes like me to, every word / a star. Brilliant, then dimming."‎

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À propos de l'auteur

John Claxton grew up in a small town in northern Illinois. ‎After graduating from Butler University, he moved to ‎Chicago and began a long career in advertising. Midway ‎through this career, he worked on a project with Billy ‎Collins. He decided, then and there, to become a poet ‎and has never looked back. He has had poems published ‎in the Atticus Review, Beyond Words, East by Northeast, Poetry ‎East and Poets Choice. This is his first book of poems.‎

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