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Dwight Brooks

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in Great Falls, Montana, The United States
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I was raised in Southern California, and devoted myself to rock climbing and ski racing. I completed a double-major in philosophy and English at USC in 1978; an M.F. A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1981. In 1983 I withdrew from the Ph.D. program at Yale, unable to resist a job offer to become an expedition research director for a documentary film company in Indonesia, charged to locate primitive tribal groups in mountain areas difficult of access. This immersion led to learning Dutch, to an interest in the colonial period, and to many research trips to The Netherlands. I remained in Indonesia just under ten years, working privately the last five composing polylingual jungle fiction inspired by James Joyce. I completed an M.A. ...more

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We read and discuss poetry from Homer to Frost. We are mostly interested in English and American poetry from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Robert Fros ...more
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