Growing Pains

By Allan Brick

The episodes, scenes, recognitions of seven decades are experienced in the form of then as now. Poems go from the actual time of youth, in the section Growing Pains, on through the continuing times of growing up a process still going forward. The poems in Such is Life consider the innocence of certainty challenged by sharp awakenings to reality. The sections Peopleand Fictiondeal further with the drama of awakening. Sections on Politics and War and Religion portray the continuing struggle to find meaning, even to discover truth. Finally, End of Term is about saying goodbye.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 28, 2007
• ISBN: 9781469101637

Allan Brick

After teaching at Dartmouth and Goucher in the 50’s and early 60’s, Allan Brick left the academy to work full-time against the Vietnam War. He worked for the American Friends Service Committee and then the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He resumed college teaching in the early ‘70’s joining the faculty of Hunter College, where he taught British Nineteenth Century literature, anti-war literature, and memoir writing. He has published a book of poems, Growing Pains.

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