Adele Kearney

Changing Times

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Changing Times travels from Depression Pennsylvania to California and Rome, from coal towns with pretty names to Chinese railroad laborers. Other poems celebrate flowers, a cherished cat, a beloved daughter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 42
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 68g
• ISBN-13: 9781635341416
• ISBN-10: 1635341418
• Artikelnr.: 58088110

Autorenporträt

Adele Kearney was born on April 7, 1931, in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. She attended Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for two years before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1950 to work for the FBI while taking night school classes at George Washington University. She graduated in 1953 and taught third grade for a year in Rockville, Maryland, then moved to California, where she studied at Stanford University. She was a technical writer for IBM for thirty years, including a year and a half at IBM Rome. She had one daughter and was active in the civil rights movement and the California Peace and Freedom Party. She died in Sacramento on September 30, 2016, heeding to the end the advice in the last line of her poem "The Streets of Rome": "Live this hour now; despair never." Changing Times is her first poetry collection.