Forty-Five at Eighty-Five. Four Dozen Minus Three Geezerhood Poems
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Автор: Bruce Shelly
Язык: Английский
Издательство: Книга по Требованию
Год: 2014
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Read What Famous Poets
Did Not Really Say About This Book...
“I wish I were still alive and could read this old guy’s stuff.” — Walt Whitman
“Shelly doesn’t even know how to spell the family name.” — Percy Byshe Shelley
“Some of the best rhymes he stole from me.” —Edgar A. Guest
“His blank verse is really blank.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“With the word processors they have these days everybody thinks they’re a poet.” —William Shakespeare
“If you’re looking for something transcendent, read my essays.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the author:
Bruce Shelly enjoyed the traditional writer’s zig-zag career. Chronologically, it included pre-adolescent paper route, scout camp lifeguard, hobo, college football scholarship, college dropout, cub reporter, radio writer, newspaper editor, Korean War soldier, Congressman’s chief of staff, advertising Executive, and thirty years as a Hollywood Screenwriter.
His writings include newspaper columns, magazine short stories and articles, political speeches ads, children’s books, a mystery novel, number one television shows, and hundreds more that weren’t number one, tv movies, a theatrical film, animated series, greeting cards, and bumper stickers.