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Pomes is a collection of autobiographical short stories in verse format. When I began writing these verses, says Bookman, it was a kind of verbal doodling to avoid doing my real work-writing my next novel. But soon these doodles took on a life of their own. He realized the stories-memories-some going back sixty years, were as much a part of his life as when they happened. As Edward de Bono wrote, A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Bookman isn't writing about the past-the history of others is the past. I was wrestling with, explaining to, raging, laughing, crying at and-most importantly-trying to understand myself, now. We don't know if he succeeds. But the blood, the anger, the laughter and the passion reverberate on every page in this extraordinarily powerful book. | |||
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