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    The More of Me: Poems of Life, Love and Ageing
    The More of Me: Poems of Life, Love and Ageing
    The More of Me: Poems of Life, Love and Ageing
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    The More of Me: Poems of Life, Love and Ageing

    By J. Paul Pemsler

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    The More of Me is composed of six sections: Inamoratas, poems of love through youth, maturity, and older age; Poetasters, challenges of writing poetry; Happenings, caustic reflections on life today; Perceptions, observations on the lives of others; Journey, launching this poet’s journey into life; and Later Years, becoming of an age. J. Paul Pemsler is a Distinguished Member of the Harvard Institute of Learning in Retirement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he led Fiction Writing workshops for fourteen years. His short stories appeared in the Seattle Review and in his book, One Dozen …with Everything.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781483484761
    The More of Me: Poems of Life, Love and Ageing

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      The More of Me - J. Paul Pemsler

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      Copyright © 2018 J. Paul Pemsler.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of the author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-8477-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-8476-1 (e)

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 05/11/2018

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