Bad Boomer's Place

All my life I have been writing poetry at those times when I have had the need to express my emotions.  Happy times, being in love, sad times, and sometimes just very thoughtful times.  I have had my poetry up on my own web site, and have had individual poems published in "The Stars and Stripes" (a military newspaper), other places, and on some other web sites.  I have tried to have them published in book form a couple of times, but until recently, that required a publisher taking some of the cost and risk, and poetry was not that viable.

But now it is a brave new world.  Electronic publishing and as-needed printing has made it possible for anyone to publish, and I have taken advantage of that to publish my first book of poetry!!  It is called "My Life in a Poem - Volume I," and provides an emotional chronology of my life.

Volume I contains the poetry that I wrote early in life - my late teens and early twenties. The time period was approximately 1968 through 1974. The major events reflected in these poems included such things as falling in love for the first time, seeing the destructiveness of the drug culture, meeting my first wife, getting married, getting drafted into the Army, going through basic training and Advanced Infantry Training (AIT), spending thirteen months in Vietnam, coming home, having my marriage fall apart, and the separation from my marriage.

I also have a 2nd volume completed and a 3rd volume started.  I will publish these in the future.  I have links here on this blog, and on the main Boomer Blog, in the right sidebar, and on my main personal site (desautel.net) in the left sidebar.  Look for the following icons:

  This links to the paperback version on Amazon.com

  The paperback version is also available on the publisher's site (Wordclay)

  This icon links to the Electronic version for Amazon Kindle owners

So, let's all go out and but many copies of my book!!  LOL!

BB