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"In Rime, a collection of doggerel, whimsy and barb, William Driscoll turns his poetic sights on all things puffy, self–important and ridiculous. Cutting a wide swath of satire and mockery, the poetry in this collection ranges from the bawdy to the profane."
William Driscoll
Born on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, as a boy Will was more at home on the beaches, local playing fields or exploring the woods behind his house than in a classroom. Precocious and free-spirited, he was given to the rough and tumble of sports and other physical activities. All this changed the day he discovered what he would later call--"the magic book; the first book that made the movie go in my head"-- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Devouring it, the Lord of the Rings and later The Silmarillion in consecutive readings, his life-long love of fantasy and poetry began. During his high school years, now an avid reader, Will became a student of science fiction/fantasy, mythology and folklore and would seek out similar works by Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Stephen R. Donaldson. Graduating from college with honors, he received his first awards in the genres of poetry and short fiction while, all the while, his own fantasy world was slowly taking shape in his imagination. In 1988 surrounded by family and friends he married the love of his life, rock singer and part-time journalist for the Soho Weekly News, Kelly Andersen. Together they have three wonderful children, Shae, Erin and Erik. While Will wrote, Kelly went on to a long successful third career as a restaurateur and is currently a sought-after health and lifestyle coach. Throughout his writing life, Will has always considered himself a poet having written seven books of poetry along with a number of short stories, three movie scripts and an Off Broadway play. At the same time, like some model train enthusiast lovingly shaping an H0 scale paradise in his basement, he was tinkering obsessively with his fantasy world which presented first as hastily written notes in a journal; these scratchings would later become notebooks and then computer files filled with detailed histories, maps, poetry, character sketches and stories. Twenty-two years after that first note was taken, he decided to pull it all together and began Godsfade, a high science fiction/fantasy series set in a dystopian future, The Living Gods, Awakening in the Hollow and The Dark Gate being the first three installments.
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Rime - William Driscoll
Terracom Poet Series
Rime
William Driscoll
Terracom Books
Rime
Terracom Books/May 2014
Smashwords Edition
Published by Terracom Books
A Division of Terracom Media
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are imaginary.
Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or locations is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher.
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Copyright ©2014 by William Driscoll
ISBN–13: 978–1–310–72049–9
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About the collection
In Rime, a collection of doggerel, whimsy and barb, William Driscoll turns his poetic sights on all things puffy, self–important and ridiculous. Cutting a wide swath of satire and mockery, the poetry in this collection ranges from the bawdy to the profane; from a nonsense rhyme about ‘toysomeness Grinkle and tempastious Tala’ to a plea for ‘safe sonnetry’ to an ode