Loyalty: New and Selected Poems

Henry Braun

ISBN 10: 0977842908 / ISBN 13: 9780977842902

Edité par Off the Grid Press, 2006

N° de réf. du vendeur 0977842908-11-32026808

Synopsis :

Loyalty: New and Selected Poems is the second book pubhsed by poet and social justice activist Henry Braun. It is also the first published offering by Off the Grid Press, which he helped found in his hometown of Weld, Maine, in 2003. In 2010, Loyalty won the Maine Poets and Writers Award for best book of poetry published in Maine in that year.

À propos de l'auteur: Henry Braun (1930- 2014), the author of Loyalty: New and Selected Poems, was born in Olean, New York, and grew up in Buffalo. In the 1960s, Braun organized poetry read-ins against the war in Vietnam and was convicted in a Federal court of tax evasion. His war tax dollars were donated to a veterans hospital and to public schools in Philadelphia. As an organizer of a draft card turn-in at the Justice Department, he was an unindicted co-conspirator at the Boston 5 trial. For most of his career, Braun taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, including a year at Temple's branch campus in Japan. His first book of poems, The Vergil Woods, was published by Atheneum (1968).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Loyalty: New and Selected Poems
Éditeur : Off the Grid Press
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New