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Reaching Eighty-5

出版	America Star Books, 2015-06-02
主題	Poetry / General
ISBN	16812209389781681220932
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tN_WsgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Alan Scott's Poetry has changed from the publication of his first book, The Will of Our Times, when he was 19 and attending Oswego State in New York. While those poems were more lyrical and impressionistic, his present ones in Reaching Eighty-5 are more real and current. "The world has changed for the worse" he says, "and writers have to take this into account." We have to write what is and not what we hope it will be. People know and decipher the truth. Social relevance is very important now, with the reading of Reaching Eighty-5 we can trust the reader in a singular comment, "Yes, it's true. I'm living it!" Alan Scott started writing at five years and finished his first book, The Will of Our Times when he was just 19. He has continued writing when he could, penning poetry, essays, short stories, novels and an informational guide for Kindergarteners written with Elise Scott. But teaching on Long Island, New York, giving piano lessons and raising two sons, left little time for writing. "Got caught in the crab-grass culture," he says. After retiring to Wellington, Florida he started to write and compose music. He composed the music for the Cottage Theater Players production of Risen. Scott also performed his own Rhapsody for piano and orchestra for the Palm Beach Music Teachers Association. For the past ten years he has resided in Miami Beach, Florida where he continues to write.