Thoughts I Left Behind: Collected Poems of William Roetzheim - Softcover

Roetzheim, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976800101 ISBN 13: 9780976800101

Publisher: Level 4 Press, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

Thoughts I Left Behind: Collected Poems of William Roetzheim by William Roetzheim, Illustrated, 4.99, 179 pages. IPPY Award, Best Poetry Book (winner), Best Books National Poetry Book of the Year (finalist), London Book Festival, Best Poetry Book (finalist), New York Book Festival, Best Poetry Book (finalist).

About this title

About the Author

William Roetzheim is the author of seventeen published books, over 100 articles, three columns, and fifteen spoken word audio CDs (Producer and Director). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. His writing has won 8 gold medals and 21 honorable mentions in national and international competitions, including “Best Books” National Book Award; London Book Festival; IPPY Award; Indie Excellence Award; Benjamin Franklin Award; Foreword MagazineBook of the Year; New York Book; New England Book Festival; DIY Book Festival; and the Bill Fisher Award. His stageplay Frost has won a Seahorse award at the Moondance International Film Festival for Best Stageplay, and was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Verse Drama award and the National Best Books award for Best Drama. His musical Eliot has won a Seahorse award at the Moondance International Film Festival for Best Musical Libretto and was a finalist for the National Best Books award for Best Drama.

From the Back Cover

"This book is unashamedly autobiographical and that is one of its strong points. It comes across as very real, the characters elicit empathy because the reader can identify with the situations. Frost s poems had that same quality, like you were sitting at his kitchen table listening to him over coffee. I got that same feeling reading this book." Gene Auprey

"I enjoyed the personal nature and the wide variety of forms and subjects in these poems. William has a knack for finding the poetry in the details of everyday family and work life without glossing over or exaggerating the disappointments." Stephen Scaer

"Roetzheim has a lot of great work here. His work comes across as strong and solid. He has a wonderful command of the language and I enjoy his insight." Martha Shea

"In Roetzheim's poems one senses a broad intelligence in conversation with itself: sober, worldly, both tender and weary, measuring itself against a lifetime of experience and revised expectations. Whether ruminating on old love, performing a surgical character sketch, or journeying through space, time and literature, Roetzheim manages to reach under the detritus of an ordinary life to share with the reader the uneasy truce of feeling alive." Larry Weisman

"The reaction this book instills can be described by two lines in Frost s Birches: "I d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over." It is certainly a book to read by the hearth propped up in a comfortable chair." Christopher L. McDonald

"William Roetzheim is the tour guide whose humor and imagination illuminate each journey we embark upon with him. Whether he leads us along the streets of Italy, through the works of the famous poets, or simply from room to room in his house, every door he opens takes us someplace delightful and unexpected." Jackleen Holton

Edition details

• Publisher: Level 4 Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976800101
• ISBN 13: 9780976800101
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179