Footnotes to the Sun - Softcover

Simonds, John E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491761725 ISBN 13: 9781491761724

Publisher: iUniverse, 2015

Synopsis

In this his second book of poetry, retired Honolulu and former Washington D.C. newsman John E. Simonds explores further experiences, travels, family milestones and personal encounters. Footnotes to the Sun pursues his interests in running and reflection, while also revisiting some compass points of life. A Depression era child of New England parents, he provides glimpses of youth in New York’s lower Hudson valley, early newspaper days in Indiana and Ohio, historic brushes in Washington, D.C., and mid-life to later years in Hawai’i. Four decades in ever-changing Honolulu have provided more than enough to examine, but Simonds also shares personal insights on pills and prayer in Manhattan, life changes over time, stress and serenity in the Pacific, family deaths in Connecticut and California, links to the past refocused by travel. Footnotes offers a range of verse forms—short pieces, detailed narratives, prose poems—sprinkled with dry humor from the East Oahu flood zone where Simonds has lived with his family since the 1970s, a few hundred yards from the Pacific, a natural neighbor that bears watching.

About this title

About the Author

John E. Simonds is a retired Honolulu newspaper editor who has lived in Hawaii for nearly forty years. His poetry has appeared in Connecticut River Review, Bamboo Ridge Press, Hawaii Pacific Review, and New Millennium Writings. He is the author of Waves from a Time-Zoned Brain. He lives with his wife, Kitty, on Oahu.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491761725
• ISBN 13: 9781491761724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156