Come Say Hello Before I Go

Carson, Sol Kent

ISBN 10: 1462402976 / ISBN 13: 9781462402977

Published by InspiringVoices, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Come Say Hello Before I Go
• Publisher: InspiringVoices
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462402976
• ISBN 13: 9781462402977
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This collection of my poems includes poems I have written over more than seventy years, far back into my younger years, when I was a ditch-digger for the WPA and then an artist depicting people at work during the depression years. I began to write by writing on the backs of my pictures and paintings, usually something about what was in the picture, what moved me to compose the picture, my thoughts and feelings about what I was depicting that was part of the human experience. Later on, I began to write poetry about art and painting-what it felt like to paint, what went through my mind and heart as I set myself to the task of painting, how I felt about the subjects of my painting, be they human, animal, plant, or an especially evocative scene. I wrote extensively of my feelings for my wife and son. When my wife died, I poured my grief into poetry about my feelings of loss.

About the Author

Sol Kent Carson was born in 1917, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Russian immigrant parents named Karsonsky. His BFA and Med degrees (fine arts) are from Temple University. His PhD in fine arts is from Minerva University, Bari, Italy. He taught art in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin universities.