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Step into the life of WWII Veteran Nathan Polsky. Through rhyme, humor and insights, his poetry will warm your heart with a sentimental story or light-hearted witty wisdom.
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About the Author:
Nathan Polsky, author of this collection of poems, is a native New Yorker. He has been married for over sixty-four years to a woman with whom he attended their high school prom. They have two daughters. He was an elementary school art teacher, cartoonist, illustrator, fabric designer and artist. His work appeared in various newspapers and periodicals. He won an award from the New York Art Directors Club for a work commissioned by CBS. He is still a working artist. During World War II, he was a bombardier, flying over two dozen missions, earning a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars. Polsky has a BS and an MA degree from NYU. His professional career included being Director of several community arts organizations, Project Director at Macmillan and Houghton Mifflin publishers, and advertising manager with several paper companies. He founded and was president of Scratch-Art Co., an arts and crafts company, inventing and manufacturing many original creative art products for schools and commercial markets before finally selling the company and retiring. For the last several years, he has concentrated on writing poems, focusing on personal thoughts, observations, experiences, memories, etc. seeing the serious and humorous sides of life. His poetry is thought-provoking, silly, funny, and sometimes with themes that are perceptive and disturbing. These poems are the fruits of a long participatory life and should be shared.
Review:
Readers who will enjoy this book most are those who share the time-frame involved and the poet's view of life. Very few poems are subtle, but many are humorous and possess a clear-eyed view of times passed. Here we have a memoir of a long life, well-lived. Many of the poems express the wisdom gained over many years, a summing up of one man's view of the harvest of a productive life. If you enjoy poetry that says what it means and means what it says, then you will delve into this work with pleasure. -Sue Scalf, poet (Sue Scalf is an award-winning author of nine books of poetry, two of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies and taught English and creative writing at both secondary and university levels.) --Sue Scalf, poet
I love the whimsical and fun-loving nature of Polsky's verse... in the spirit of Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash. If you don't believe me, read "Backwards, March!" (Hello, I must be going now... Goodbye I'll stay awhile... Why don't you sit and also stand... An inch is still a mile.) or "Awesome" (My voice was fantastic! A triumph of tone... with such dazzling vocal power... spectacular, thrilling, until I hurt myself... taking bows in the shower.) --Jim Reed, editor, Birmingham Arts Journal
I love the whimsical and fun-loving nature of Polsky's verse... in the spirit of Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash. If you don't believe me, read "Backwards, March!" (Hello, I must be going now... Goodbye I'll stay awhile... Why don't you sit and also stand... An inch is still a mile.) or "Awesome" (My voice was fantastic! A triumph of tone... with such dazzling vocal power... spectacular, thrilling, until I hurt myself... taking bows in the shower.) --Jim Reed, editor, Birmingham Arts Journal
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- PublisherSuncoast Digital Press, Inc.
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 193923705X
- ISBN 13 9781939237057
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages119
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