Runner without a Number engages us in the events and occasions of our nation and neighborhood, in lives fully and incompletely lived: from Gettysburg's battlefield to Boston's Marathon; from Rome to Vermont and the nuclear desert of Yucca Flats, Nevada; through love's emotional seasons of joy and regret, desire, and disappointment. These poems invite us to reflect on Joseph Campbell's question: "How do we turn the events of our lives into experience?" Runner without a Number asks the reader to contemplate how we locate ...
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Runner without a Number engages us in the events and occasions of our nation and neighborhood, in lives fully and incompletely lived: from Gettysburg's battlefield to Boston's Marathon; from Rome to Vermont and the nuclear desert of Yucca Flats, Nevada; through love's emotional seasons of joy and regret, desire, and disappointment. These poems invite us to reflect on Joseph Campbell's question: "How do we turn the events of our lives into experience?" Runner without a Number asks the reader to contemplate how we locate ourselves in nature and in the human heart, in our real and imagined fragmented and whole stories. How we can be found and redeemed in the ground and surprise of language. Poet, counselor, husband, father, and grandfather, Gary Margolis draws on his fifty years of writing poems to draw us one moment closer, one day nearer.
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