This book is a collection of poems from Jack Boyd's personal archive. The first were written while he was a student at the University of Michigan in 1966. When he began writing poetry in the '60s, the Vietnam War was very much on his mind. He managed to complete his undergraduate degree and travel to Kenya to teach in the Peace Corps. Although he taught English and English literature there, when he returned home, he earned a graduate with a master's in social work. He entered a career in human services and was preoccupied ...
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This book is a collection of poems from Jack Boyd's personal archive. The first were written while he was a student at the University of Michigan in 1966. When he began writing poetry in the '60s, the Vietnam War was very much on his mind. He managed to complete his undergraduate degree and travel to Kenya to teach in the Peace Corps. Although he taught English and English literature there, when he returned home, he earned a graduate with a master's in social work. He entered a career in human services and was preoccupied by this work and other events in his life until thirty years later when he revived his passion for poetry. He now makes poetry and writing his life within his life. One group of poems recall his Peace Corps Volunteer work as a teacher in the Western province of Kenya, East Africa. The majority of the poems included here were written between 1996 and 2000 while he was an employee of the Phoenix Indian Center, a non-profit agency serving urban Native Americans in various stage of emersion in the White Man's world. Many document his observations of the world through his front window, extend to territory within miles of his home, and then to other sacred places, such as the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, and beyond.
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