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Poetry Chapbook. SPICER'S CITY is 6 prose-poems which have to do with men, names, war, the city, films, relations, ends, lacks of end, means and meanings. The drama of recognition is a story without names. The double, the ambivalent, the uncertain, these are the categories we must accept. Only something like a mineral garden is left. (from Laura) Only something like poems, nourishment in paragraphs, names of musings and experiences, experiments, attempts, which ask us to consider: What have I said? What have I done? In a story about memory do the memories make any difference? (from 12 O'clock High)

Poetry. "If poems can be profoundly emotional - illuminating the persistently difficult zero of experience - these poems are. Precise, compelling, moving, simple, yet in places skirting the edges of what can be said, the writing in SYMMETRY feels absolutely necessary. Its toughness, honesty and eyes-open confrontation with the unnameable may make you weep"-Norman Fischer.

Reiley Freeze was an extremely heroic, kind, and popular character with readers in the trilogy, The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons. His instant charisma was evident with everyone he knew. He was fascinating, and yet, he never met very many people---he was always on the move.Reiley was the envy of every man who ever met him including his own brother. He didn't understand why men disliked him because he didn't realize that he made choices with a power that many men lacked---the internal fortitude to set aside his own desires for the sake of others. He stayed completely loyal to his goals---to provide a permanent life of security for the generations who would follow his own. He made every decision as closely aligned with the world's most valued and yet difficult necessity---the one that says good men must conquer the evil ones while not becoming stained with sin and guilt--- the only way for a man to become a real hero.Even more unlikely, the men who disliked him out of jealousy, principally because he was so admired by women, couldn't see the truth. They saw his charm, but yet, he held no pretense or swagger. The reason women longed for him was because of his way---his way with words---his way with a smile---his way with a helping hand, and most importantly, his way with his goodness.

This book is written by someone who substituted for over five years, so you can be sure you will read things about this public job that are rarely spoken about openly.Substitute teachers often stand alone working behind a veil of obscurity and secrecy. But they should not exist in isolation or be treated as outsiders. There are some tips for substitutes in this book, especially knowing what the job can be like when there are behavioral and disciplinary issues. Therefore, facing these difficulties is the first step needed to make improvements in what should be a collaborative system . . . specifically, one that puts children first.

About the book . . . Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called a barrier spit. It looks like a little finger that sticks up out of the State into the New York Bay just south of New York City. It is located on the northeast side of New Jersey. It is approximately six miles long and its width varies between one-tenth of a mile, and one mile wide, and ends in Middletown Township in Monmouth County. The name comes from the Dutch who called the area "Sant Hoek", meaning "spit of land."The Sandy Hook Lighthouse---originally the New York Lighthouse---was commissioned by George Washington and is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. Many of the records of the lighthouse keepers are missing between 1923 and 1962. This lighthouse seemed to conjure up many stories over the years. Its endless association with legends and obscurities includes a mysterious sea and abandoned human bones.*****A child of an Irish Baron and housemaid discovers she was abandoned to a couple on a baby farm in Scotland. She loves her foster parents deeply, but they are killed in an accident, and she is scooped away from the farm by a rich and very strict Calvinist aunt.She suffers additional tragedies despite being blessed with a good education and wealth through several deaths. Her life of heartbreak and desire is never quenched until she has a baby of her own, Nora.But it was a short-lived reprieve from unhappiness, as a catastrophe takes her and her rich husband Harry Fairmont, who had lost all he owned in the stock market crash of 1929.Nora miraculously ends up on the barrier spit of Sandy Hook where she grows up in the lighthouse with strangers during the depression.

Short descriptionAlexis Dering is the son of a rich lord in Exeter, EnglandWhen he learns that his ancestors were frauds and hypo-crites, guilty of unspeakable crimes, he decides to strike out on his own, leaving his wealth and potential positionbehind.Despite his desire to help humanity and live a peaceful life, he runs into endless obstacles. His life is filled with unrequitedlove and tragedy. Only late in life does he discover true love, and hope to live the life he has always desired.

About the book . . ."Irish Luck" is the story of the grandparents of "The Nine Irish Sons."Before Jack Jones left for Queenstown to board the Titanic on a secret quest, he prepared legal documents leaving all he owned to his fianc�. Still, feeling strangely uneasy, he wanted to secure their bond and a definite future together, so they made love the day before he left.Maud, born nine months later, never knew of her illegitimacy---only that she adored the picture of her beloved unknown father Jones. When she met a young, handsome Irish Admiral who resembled the picture, and introduced himself as Jones O'Malley from Mayo County, she fell in love instantly.An unpredictable conundrum of Irish Luck ensues---unexpected romances unexpected wealth---unexpected illegitimacy, unexpected ties to the IRA, and unexpected children.