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    Living Within a City Revisited
    Living Within a City Revisited
    Living Within a City Revisited
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    Living Within a City Revisited

    By Ken Regan

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    In his first book of poetry, Living Within a City, published in 1978, the author explores themes of loss, separation, and finally hope, lifting itself past walls of confinement. Now, forty years later, the author revisits those themes in a sequel to that first collection, still finding the hope that rises out of the daily struggles of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 26, 2018
    ISBN9781973631828
    Living Within a City Revisited
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    Ken Regan

    Now turning gray himself, the author has spent a lifetime exploring the spaces in between black and white. He has written over 10,000 poems, many of which have been published in previous collections.

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      Living Within a City Revisited - Ken Regan

      Copyright © 2018 Ken Regan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-9736-3183-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9736-3184-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9736-3182-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018907484

      WestBow Press rev. date: 06/26/2018

      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      It’s Seldom Quiet On The Subway

      Connection To My Heart

      A Room Full Of Noise

      More Why’s Thrown To The Winds

      Living Within A City

      Looking Out    Looking In

      Once (In Another Life)

      Because The Night

      Living Within A City - Part 1

      The Rain Is Falling

      The Melancholy Of The Night

      Indiscretion

      A Shallow Friend

      A City Song (Graffiti)

      Living Within A City Ii

      Subway Sunday

      Let The Journey Begin

      Gentle Nights

      Nocturne

      Nothing Changes

      So Easy Now

      My Only Friend

      By The Light

      Living Within A City Revisited

      Kong Waits

      Stagnation

      On The Precipice

      Pause

      I Shall Be

      Road To Nowhere

      Among The Ruins

      Ghosts

      When The Lights Fade

      Night In My City

      Ramblings

      Chicago Morning

      Walls

      Eloquence

      My Mother’s Favorite Child

      Remember The Night

      Farewell

      City Lights

      Another Ride

      Daytime Is Less Than Perfect

      Poor Reception

      Puzzle

      Lines Of Communication

      Encased

      Love Is Eternal

      Waiting (Again)

      Setting Sun

      Twin Moons Over New York

      Conform, Conform

      Imitation Everything

      Dark Death

      Morning Rain

      Night Call

      Were The Masters Crazy?

      Loneliness In The 4Th Dimension

      Highway 40

      Meeting By The River

      Sacred Writings

      Turn On The Lights

      Home-Less

      Simply Asked

      Detroit

      Night Scene

      The Wall

      Timelessness

      The World Moves Too Fast

      Trapped Within My Veins

      River Dove

      Heart Attack

      Frustration

      The Birds Don’t Sing In New Jersey

      Crevices And Cracks

      Why Does No One Care?

      The City

      The Flight Of The Last Bird

      The Burning Of Chicago

      That Thing Called Existence

      Unfettered

      Again And Again (There’s No Escaping You)

      The Last Call

      When God Is No More A Part Of Me

      The Last Night Approaching

      No Need To Think

      One Truth

      Confusion

      Holding Back The Rain

      The Ember Is Glowing

      Decay

      There Are No Flowers Over My Grave

      The Journey

      Disconnected (9/11)

      Stalemate

      Broken Branches

      Six Ten

      Basically Morning

      We Will Survive

      What If The World

      Where Is The Funeral?

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