Giant Sky of The Shepherds

By Robert Flanagan

In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan contemplates mortality in his latest collection, Giant Sky of The Shepherds. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guernica
• Release date: Jan 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781550716528

Robert Flanagan

1. The author, Robert Flanagan, is a retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer who served 16 years in Army Security Agency at all the venues depicted in this and the foregoing two novels in The ASA Trilogy. Before Army service, he served seven years in the US Marines. He served two 1-year tours in Viet Nam, and knew the book's characters under other guises. These three books, collectively a paen to military service in intelligence in the Cold War and Viet Nam, are filled with the exploits, foibles, hi-jinks and sacrifices of the many men and women who spent lifetimes serving in the backwaters of the world in honorable service to their country. 2. Following retirement from the Army, Flanagan returned to college, earning a bachelor's in Communications, a Master of Arts in English, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. The manuscript of the three Trilogy novels was his working theses throughout academia. The genesis of the trilogy began 47 years ago in Viet Nam when he began keeping journals. 3. He is married to the same Julia for 54 years. They have four children, 10 gc, and seven ggc. They live on a ridge between two mountains in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. The author is already engaged in a new novel of totally different subject and settings. He is in his 13th year of writing a column for the weekly Hampshire Review newspaper in his home county. He is also a poet and publishes essays, articles, book reviews, and profiles.

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