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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Duane R. Christianson lives in Davidson, NC with his wife Toni Youngblood. He moved here from Oak Park, Illinois. This is his second book of poetry, the first being "Burning on the Mesa." He retired from the Veterans Administration in 2010 and has had time as well as encouragement to write more poetry since then. He describes his career as a series of caroms between occupations. His poems also disclose tangentially his experience in studying English, his work as a piano tuner-technician, as a job placement counselor, and subsequently as a job modifier using adaptive computer technology for the blind. He spent thirty years working in the field of blind rehabilitation. Today, he tells his grandchildren. "Find something that has no solution but that needs one badly. Throw your heart into it." In many ways this also explains his love of poetry: "I have always liked playing with words, their sounds, images, and music, and especially when suddenly, by choice or chance, they are put together in such a way that they illuminate my life, and the lives of others. May these poems reach my readers in the way that they reach me."
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Duane R. Christianson lives in Davidson, NC with his wife Toni Youngblood. He moved here from Oak Park, Illinois. This is his second book of poetry, the first being "Burning on the Mesa." He retired from the Veterans Administration in 2010 and has had time as well as encouragement to write more poetry since then. He describes his career as a series of caroms between occupations. His poems also disclose tangentially his experience in studying English, his work as a piano tuner-technician, as a job placement counselor, and subsequently as a job modifier using adaptive computer technology for the blind. He spent thirty years working in the field of blind rehabilitation. Today, he tells his grandchildren. "Find something that has no solution but that needs one badly. Throw your heart into it." In many ways this also explains his love of poetry: "I have always liked playing with words, their sounds, images, and music, and especially when suddenly, by choice or chance, they are put together in such a way that they illuminate my life, and the lives of others. May these poems reach my readers in the way that they reach me."