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2nd, 2017, 1st
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The 100-page collection of travel writing is non-fiction and unuique. There are first-hand narratives of hitchhiking alone through East Africa, of voyages with untested crews across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, of storms, knife and shark attacks, robberies and wrecks. Aside from travel writing, they are fiction. - Juvenilia is by definition a retrospective of someone's early work, to discern not so much quality as direction. This writing is not meant to impress, but it is hoped that teens today might empathize with some of the anger, the questioning of authority, and the rebelliousness - imaginary, idealized - herein. Umbrae Papilionis means shadows of the butterflies I hoped later to write. I was a 17-year-old junior at St. George's School in Newport, RI. I was not good in spring sports and took advantage of the school's little-known policy of producing a special project instead Z. (for Zarathustra) was overseen on my senior year by Mrs. Janet Buell. The title derives from my study of and flirtation with Persian and non-Judeo-Christian religions, and a featured essay. Shorts is by far the loudest scream this author has put to paper. My freshman year at 15,000-student Boston College was highly tumultuous and wrenchingly free. Shorts reflects my Beatnik bent. The collections features numerous maps, many of them penned during the author's teen years.
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PART I: Umbrae Paplionis
Dawn
Long Day
Her Light
Ignorance Metaphor
On Television
A School Morning
St. George's Whistle
Her
The Deceitful Shaft of Light
Wind Haikus
Chapel Breezes
A Connecticut Weekend
Stones
Shaving the Grass
Death Row
Fog, or Diman
Fuimos de Campamento (We Went Camping)
Riots
I.L.U.
Secular Ode
Flying Home
Table
Life
To the Televangelists
Fill O' Sophie (Philosophy)
Thoughts
On Writing
Rainfall
PART II: Z. (for Zarathustra)
Excerpt: Memory, Ambition
Climbing Haiku
Landing in Nassau
Notes from a Stockholm Park
Don’t Do Crack
Dazed and Running
Hejdå Stor Båt (Goodbye Big Boat)
I Saw Men Running
Down Fell the Bowman
Life Versus Limits
On Gender
So Many Things
My Mind is on Guitar
Grippsund
I Fell Silent
Clang Goes the Cross
Chameleon River Haiku
My Boat and I
Lean Back
Chapel Talk
At Night, While Cycling
Sophia
PART III: Shorts
Skull and I
Station
The Man in the Uniform
The Uniform in the Man
Two Bedraggled Men
What?
Scribbles from Saint George's
John Coltrane: 1926-1967
I would be an Artist (or a Lunatic)
Thus Spoke Nietzsche
Zarathustrianism
The Stare
Courtney at Fourteen
I was killed in Mesquite, Nevada
The Jameson Raid in South Africa: 1895-1896
Fall Football
A Happening Hitch
Pensée
This Sea
PART IV: Travel Writing 1987 – 2003
John & My Travels in Scandinavia, (map)
EuroRail 1990 (with map)
Sailboat Chebec's Atlantic Crossing (with chart)
Travels in The British Isles, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, 1984-1991, (map)
A Brief Wander Through East Africa (with map)
You Can’t Get to Mpulungu From Here
Yacht Stornoway's Trans-Pacific Voyage 1993-94, (with chart)
Report on the Water Barge M/T Titas Round-Trip Nassau-Andros, Bahamas, April 2, 1995
Summary of Fourth Round-the-World Trip, 2001
About the author
ISBN: 9780998375953
ISBN-10: 0998375950
Published: 15th December 2009
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 205
Audience: Teenager/Young Adult
For Ages: 12 - 18 years old
For Grades: 07 - 12
Publisher: Island Books
Edition Number: 1
Edition Type: 2nd, 2017, 1st
























