Dancing Light: Poems by Zan - Softcover

White VI, Rev. Stephen Alexander "Zan"

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492919152 ISBN 13: 9781492919155

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Take a momentary vacation each time you open this book of beautiful contemporary poems. The well-chosen words on these pages are like a snapshot. They capture a lovely view or evoke a memory or tell a story. Themes include nature and animals, friendship, community building, protesting for civil rights and against war, spirituality, memory loss, India, and death. This collection of nearly 200 poems was written by the author over a period of 50 years and published posthumously.

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Rev. Stephen Alexander "ZAN" White VI was born in 1938 in the small town of Mebane, North Carolina. His family owned White Furniture Company. Zan attended Davidson College in North Carolina, then Wheaton College in Illinois. He became a Presbyterian minister, training at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta during the 1960's. There he also became a civil rights activist. Next, Zan pastored Green Hill Presbyterian Church in Enterprise, Alabama, where he lost a close friend, a helicopter pilot shot down in the Vietnam War. That loss ignited his anti-war passion. He protested the Vietnam War and all the wars in which the US has been involved since. He returned to college and earned a graduate degree in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Then, in the 1970's he worked to desegregate housing in Atlanta neighborhoods. Later, in Brooklyn, New York, he developed the You Can Community School, an alternative high school for drop-out youth. All his life he was motivated by a great sense of compassion for people in need and his faith compelled him to help any who were unjustly treated. Although he put himself right in the middle of some tumultuous times in American history, his poetry reveals how he was always refreshed by the beauty of nature and renerwed by the beauty of the human spirit. During his lifetime, he kept his poetry mostly to himself. Now, his widow, Jan Peterson, wants to share his poetry with the world. Zan died in 2012 after 16 years with Alzheimer's disease.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492919152
• ISBN 13: 9781492919155
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Blair-Patrick Marilaine
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar