To read authors such as James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Doris Lessing, Sharon Olds, and Philip Roth as they explore aspects of their fathers is to open maps of possibility.
Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Virginia Woolf, the anthology is full of wit, wisdom and insight. With personal essays and poems by 5 Nobel laureates, 7 Pulitzer winners, and writers such as Angela Carter, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Fathers: A Literary Anthology is a collection of 49 essays and poems focusing on fathers. Despite being an agnostic - one who lacks the certainty to be an atheist - he believes passionately in the power of friendship, loving kindness, and literature to give meaning to our lives. A gift for all his children, biological and emotional, this anthology was compiled as an act of affirmation.
Part of the impetus, too, came from seeing how "astronaut kids," children with fathers half a world away, responded to reading personal essays and poems about fathers. He was, after all, the father of two teenage children, and some of his thoughts were forged in the fiery smithy of experience. View Larger Image Fathers: A Literary Anthology Gerard, Andre J. The idea for Fathers: A Literary Anthology came to him several years ago, and though he tried to resist, it would not go away. Items related to Fathers: A Literary Anthology. from University of British Columbia, and a Master's of English Literature from the University of Washington, and over the years he has worked as a broke hustler, green chain hand, postal employee, commercial fisherman, apartment manager, and tutor. A lover of endives and sauerkraut, lebkuchen and rice pie, he has a BSC. Fathers: A Literary Anthology by Andre Gerard - 2011 by Andre Gerard. Born a twin in 1953, son of a German mother and a Belgian father, Gerard grew up far from Würzburg and from Liège, among the forests and lakes of the coastal pulp and paper town of Powell River, B.C.
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