A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
BEFORE DARKNESS FALLS Retails for 14.95 / but you can have it now for only 11.95 This is a book of poetry and prose that deals with real life issues that all of mankind comes to face. Some of the poems deal with the tenderness of love, while others s
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;
the most massive characters are seared with scars." -Kahlil Gibran
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I wrote my first poem at around 11 or 12 and threw it in the trash. I was too tough for poetry then, and it wasn't until three years later that began to write again. I couldn't stop. I still can't. I am a writer as Rilke defines it: one who is compelled to write. My writing comes from the hard places; the difficult, seemingly impossible things...
Writers who have and continue to influence me are (in no particular order): King, Poe, Anis Mojgani, Whitman, Yeats, Thoreau, Snyder, Ginsberg, Olson, Taylor Mali, Stacy Chin, Alexandra Fuller, Tim O'brien, and John Krakauer. That's the short list... there are more.
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