Born in Philadelphia in 1959 I grew up in a suburb between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Susquehanna River. Then the Federal Highway grant in 1971 ploughed through our little idyll removing an old stone overpass and a farm house with a well. Soon followed strip malls and more strip malls. But I still like to linger, in my mind anyway, around the fields and streams near my childhood home. So I wrote a book about it. Caught somewhere between poetry and prose. And because I love Richard Brautigan's "Trout Fishing in America" so much, that became my lantern in the dark.
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