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    This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems
    This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems
    This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems
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    This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems

    By Edward L. Alban

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    The very title of this book is a sigh, evoking a lament for the briefness of life. To extend existence, man invented the afterlife. But this author does not believe in that and, instead, he looks to the past, to history. This rearview will not elongate longevity, but it will enrich the quality of his brief e

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlban Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2023
    ISBN9781962931045
    This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems
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    Edward L. Alban

    Edward L. Alban (Eddie to friends and colleagues) was born in Ecuador in 1938. He settled in Savannah, Georgia in 1952, and married his wife JoAnn in 1965. They raised two children together. A professor of Economics, he has taught at Auburn University, SUNY Potsdam, Armstrong State University and Savannah State University. He retired in 2000 and has been writing poetry and fiction ever since.In his retirement, he and JoAnn have traveled throughout Europe and South America, pursuing his new avocation for languages and literature and publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

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