Learning Life: A Memoir

By Sylvia Baer

Learning Life: A Memoir is the first volume of an unconventional memoir from the highly original educator and writer, Sylvia Baer. Through essays, photographs, and poems-many of which were online sensations during the pandemic, shared worldwide on social media-Baer tells the stories of five generations of her remarkable family.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Nostos Press
• Release date: Jul 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986436128

Sylvia Baer

Dr. Sylvia Baer is a professor of English at Rowan College, an Associate Fellow at Yale University (Davenport), and the Poet Laureate of Cape May, New Jersey, where her famed Poet-Tree blooms with poems each summer. She recently celebrated her fiftieth year of teaching.

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