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About this Book:
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I have always written poetry. I think I was in the third grade when I first found out that many words had similar sounds. I read an astonishing article in the center column on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. It continued on for three pages. It was an appeal from an Irish student at Stanford requesting an Irish American Studies Program that paralleled the African American Studies Program. His argument was that the American education system was basically an English education system and the Irish were Celtic, an entirely different race from the Anglo-Saxon. He went on to define the Celtic race as a group of artists, poets and bards with an entirely different set of values for living. I read the article several times concluding that since I was Irish it was decidedly permissible to be a poet. In response to this article I declared I was Irish and a poet and no longer a “closet poet”. In this regard, I offer my poetry for your enjoyment. This book contains over 80 illustrations based on my drawings and paintings.
My first book of poetry “Paintings and Poems of Ireland” is available from my web site www.philipterry.com. It also includes my Paintings from Ireland.
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About the Author:
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The author is a retired system's computer executive who retired young and began to travel, write and paint. After selling over 100 of his paintings he decided to put them in book form as a way to keep them for future generations.
The art and poetry are related with one giving cause for the other.
A member of the Larkspur Library Board of Trustees for over 35 years he has always had a love of books, particularly Irish books. Poetry, art and writing seem to come naturally and he enjoys the process immensely.
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