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The poems in this collection were written one-a-day, during the course of the author’s sixty-seventh year. They seek to express an ecological awareness, the “intense consciousness of land” (Aldo Leopold), a consciousness of the Earth’s land and of that essence that composes the writer’s being.
The poems in this collection were written one-a-day, during the course of the author’s sixty-seventh year. They seek to express an ecological awareness, the “intense consciousness of land” (Aldo Leopold), a consciousness of the Earth’s land and of that essence that composes the writer’s being.
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Fred Waage is Professor of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University. He was raised in upstate New York, got his academic degrees from Princeton, and taught in many U.S. states including California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. He has had many nonacademic jobs including Research Associate at the Huntington Library and Assistant Manager at Jack-in-the-Box. He also published chapbooks, poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in small magazines. His most recent book is Sinking Creek Journal: An Environmental Book of Days.
Dr. Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. Previously, she taught college English for three years at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books with McFarland: Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson (2013) and The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels. She published two poetry collections Improvisational Arguments (Fomite Press, 2011) and Battle for Athens (Anaphora, 2012). She also released the first in a historical novels series, The Romances of George Sand (2014), which will be followed by, The Battle for Democracy (2015). She published two fantasy novellas with Grim's Labyrinth Publishing: The Great Love of Queen Margaret, the Vampire (2014) and The Campaigns against the Olden: Kingdoms of Laruta (2014). She also wrote and illustrated a children's book, The Sloths and I (Anaphora, 2013). She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009; it is available on EBSCO, ProQuest and in print. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography and Brown University Military Collection fellowships.
Fred Waage is Professor of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University. He was raised in upstate New York, got his academic degrees from Princeton, and taught in many U.S. states including California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. He has had many nonacademic jobs including Research A...
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