My BOOKS
The Air Bridge Between Berlin and Me
Lance Carden has written a thoughtful, reflective book to share with the world. It captures an historic and troubled era of Germany, written at a troubled time here at home. Carden is also a poet, and his creative poems in this readable book invite the reader to pause and reflect, not just about Germany's past and present, but about our place in a troubled world.
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Robert Press, professor of political science, University of Southern Mississippi
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The Witness
This book begins in 1917 at the beginning of World War I and ends with a discussion of urban renewal, which took place in Boston's black community in the 1950s and 60s. It is based on 23 long, taped interviews with prominent black Bostonians between July 1988 and February of 1989. It is thus a narrative about black politics taken from the memories of black Bostonians.
The last section is a curriculun guide written for high school and college teachers by the well-known black educator, historian, and author Robert C. Hayden. For each of the four decades between the 1920 and 1960s, it contains background information, chapter summaries, social-studies concepts, questions for discussions, proposed student activities, and suggested readings.
Spiritual Exercise
This is a celebration of spirituality as a natural and essestial element of self-realization and human progress. Each of these poems is a potential epiphany. The poet hold up spirituality as the ultimate goal of all human endeavor and an advance beyond organic life, which is "a carcass of thought used & abandoned, dust to dust, by all that's ever truly us."
The Civil War
It is the thesis of this volume that Americans are still fighting, some times violently, the same Civil War we thought was over more than a century ago. If you are concerned about the political, medical, racial, environmqans and their democracy, the first two thirds of this book are designed to both inform and to entertain you, including a number of poems about the divisive Donald Trump. The final secion is composed of more personal poems about family personalities, fantiasies, poetry and a number of delightful animals.