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Love: New and Selected Poems
“Love is the molecule that binds [poetry] / The DNA, the nucleus of the poetic atom,” to quote one of James Thomas Fletcher's poems from "Mercury & Moonlight". Within this volume are poems about love, some with a touch of sex or lust, some of place or friendship. Gathered into this bouquet from Fletcher's previous books with additional new poems.
- GenresPoetry
117 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2019
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James Thomas Fletcher
29 books10 followersJames Thomas Fletcher is native to Oklahoma. After a brief stint in college, he left the state to see if the rest of the world existed. Along the way, he picked cotton, made fiberglass and, in hazmat suit, cleaned filters inside a nuclear laundry. He was an M-60 machine gunner in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, company clerk at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, (NATO\SHAPE) in Belgium, bartender in South Carolina, bricklayer in Oklahoma, oil field chainhand in Louisiana, roustabout in the Gulf of Mexico, English instructor in North Carolina, and Director of Computer-Aided Instruction at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Academically, he holds Master’s of Arts in English degrees in Creative Writing and Composition & Rhetoric, has been honored for outstanding teaching, and presented at national and international conferences on the subject of computer pedagogy. In addition, he has earned Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Advanced Certified Novell Administrator computer certifications.
Now retired, his motorcycle and hang glider long since sold. His pilot's license expired. He no longer restores pinball machines, skydives, scubas, sails, or paints. He has forgotten how to play the bagpipe. His didgeridoo sits idle. He was once removed by the director from a part in his own stage play, but that has not discouraged him from continuing to write. He has written short stories, plays, and screenplays, but favors poetry.
He lives on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá
Academically, he holds Master’s of Arts in English degrees in Creative Writing and Composition & Rhetoric, has been honored for outstanding teaching, and presented at national and international conferences on the subject of computer pedagogy. In addition, he has earned Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Advanced Certified Novell Administrator computer certifications.
Now retired, his motorcycle and hang glider long since sold. His pilot's license expired. He no longer restores pinball machines, skydives, scubas, sails, or paints. He has forgotten how to play the bagpipe. His didgeridoo sits idle. He was once removed by the director from a part in his own stage play, but that has not discouraged him from continuing to write. He has written short stories, plays, and screenplays, but favors poetry.
He lives on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá
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March 27, 2019
Love is the molecule that binds poetry
The DNA, the nucleus of the poetic atom.
-- James Thomas Fletcher, "Mercury & Moonlight"
Since my writing is so eclectic, I felt that readers would appreciate volumes dedicated to a single theme so that they might have a better expectation of what they would be reading and could choose a subject that more interested them. My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."
The DNA, the nucleus of the poetic atom.
-- James Thomas Fletcher, "Mercury & Moonlight"
Since my writing is so eclectic, I felt that readers would appreciate volumes dedicated to a single theme so that they might have a better expectation of what they would be reading and could choose a subject that more interested them. My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."
March 27, 2019
Love is the molecule that binds poetry
The DNA, the nucleus of the poetic atom.
-- James Thomas Fletcher, "Mercury & Moonlight"
Since my writing is so eclectic, I felt that readers would appreciate volumes dedicated to a single theme so that they might have a better expectation of what they would be reading and could choose a subject that more interested them. My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."
The DNA, the nucleus of the poetic atom.
-- James Thomas Fletcher, "Mercury & Moonlight"
Since my writing is so eclectic, I felt that readers would appreciate volumes dedicated to a single theme so that they might have a better expectation of what they would be reading and could choose a subject that more interested them. My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."
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