A new poem about Arlington West
Poems in Transit
ISBN: 0976206706
Title: Poems in Transit 1957-2004
Author: Bob Potter
Publisher: Solstice Press
Publication date: 12/28/2004
Pages: 116
Binding: Paperback
Description
Poems
in Transit is not your usual book of poetry.
Simultaneously a narrative, a collection of photographs and a
gathering of poems, it begins in the present, at the author's 70th
birthday, and proceeds backward by decades. There are poems on public
events and figures—George
W. Bush, Oliver North, O.J. Simpson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kenneth
Rexroth, the 1960's and James Dean—along the way, and snapshots
of travels in England, France, Greece and Japan, not to mention love,
death, fatherhood, student riots, military life and childhood
as a Hollywood brat.
Author biography
Bob Potter was born in New York City in the depths of the Depression (definitely a demographic advantage) and raised in Hollywood, where his father, the director H.C. Potter made twenty feature films. After graduating from Pomona College in 1956 he served in Army Intelligence (his favorite oxymoron).
Poems in Transit: 1957-2004, with accompanying photos
and comments, follows his trail thereafter—from Beat Generation
San Francisco to the present. Bob is the author of 27 plays produced
at various university and professional theatres in the United States,
Canada and England. From 1972 to 2001 he directed the playwriting
program at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was
a Professor of Dramatic Art.
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Reviews
Santa Barbara News Press 4/3/05
Barry Spacks, SB Independent 4/7/05
