Bücher veröffentlicht von Wayne Luckmann

Northwest Passage offers a selection of poems that traces the poet's own development and the development of his poetry in both style and substance. The poems in this collection presents the significance and meaning of various events during several decades, many of those events taking place within the rich setting of the Pacific Northwest.From the disturbing imagery of "Nuremberg Revisited" to the hope of a new year in "Reconnaissance

The stories and sketches collected in The Buried Life offer an intimate perspective of people responding to challenges they encounter in dealing with the conditions of their lives. These vignettes revolving around a variety of story lines introduce a wide range of characters, some are set against the background of events during the 1940s and 1950s depicted in A Stirring of the Air, Shifting of the Light. Others develop initial incidents in a culture changing over decades resulting in crises for people often resolving them in unexpected ways: Two men escape gathering mountain storm in a surprising way. A narrator meets someone totally indifferent to the busy excitement of seeing Paris. A man faces the dilemma of choosing between a position at a national level with the prospect of greater income or remaining in one locally that will offer him more security but alienating him from his fellow workers. Another man struggles to accept the pain of betrayal and a dissolving marriage as he restores an antique auto. Offering a moving collection of stories, The Buried Life explore show people deal with self-doubt, psychic suffering, recurring painful memories, and the stinging regrets of the past.The stories and sketches collected in The Buried Life offer an intimate perspective of people responding to challenges they encounter in dealing with the conditions of their lives. These vignettes revolving around a variety of story lines introduce a wide range of characters, some are set against the background of events during the 1940s and 1950s depicted in A Stirring of the Air, Shifting of the Light. Others develop initial incidents in a culture changing over decades resulting in crises for people often resolving them in unexpected ways: Two men escape gathering mountain storm in a surprising way. A narrator meets someone totally indifferent to the busy excitement of seeing Paris. A man faces the dilemma of choosing between a position at a national level with the prospect of greater income or remaining in one locally that will offer him more security but alienating him from his fellow workers. Another man struggles to accept the pain of betrayal and a dissolving marriage as he restores an antique auto. Offering a moving collection of stories, The Buried Life explore show people deal with self-doubt, psychic suffering, recurring painful memories, and the stinging regrets of the past.

A Free and Open Nature, volume 5 of Rate of Exchange chronicles the continuing pilgrimage of Felix Fist in his quest for understanding of the world, of others, and of himself. Entries spanning years found in notebooks stacked in what was once a box for shipping Granny Smith apples reveal the challenges he had faced: His struggle to control his addiction to alcohol. His living through close encounters that had compelled him to face himself in his attempt to deal with their demands at the same time he had tried meeting obstacles that had prevented him from achieving the goals he had hoped would fulfill auspicious dreams he had too often deferred.

One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix finally begins to understand why what he had or had not done had too often kept him from fulfilling his dreams that had always been deferred.

Reviewing lost times on Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s and beyond, this chronicle offers memorable events of an extended family of European heritage, some immigrating to America at the start of the 20th century. Recalling those events, the chronicle depicts how feelings and dreams deferred influenced perceptions and responses to the challenges of living in a new social environment and changing culture. Through its search for lost times, the chronicle offers momentst casting a line to the past that contributes to an understanding of the present passing moment."Vivid, emotive writing that opens a doorway to a bygone era, this is the work of an acutely observant, perspicacious writer who captures with equal vigor the hubbub of South Side street life and the volatility of family dynamics existing behind closed doors." - Kirkus Review

Having been moved by what he had found in a manila envelope stuffed with letters that had summoned up remembrance of lost times, Felix Fist began a dedicated search through other storage boxes, one containing weathered notebooks into which he had entered observations of varying consistency and regularity. Reading through five years of those entries that spanned five decades, Fist learns without surprise why he found himself where he now lived and what he lived for, his gradual awakening helping him accept with resignation and remorse all he had done to others and to himself.

Camp Cory director for many years, facing a new season with additional staff, including a newly appointed business manager also acting as a senior counselor who holds differing views as to how the camp should be managed, Henry Carter finds that the changes in staff along with a significant increase in camp inhabitants from different ethnic, social, and economic background soon begin challenging his direction of the camp and ordering its program of activities.One particular challenge Carter faces is Solomon, a boy sent to camp for the summer to help him recover from his loss of a brother. Solomon along with Phil, Andy, Stricklin, Hansen, and Herman, all from the same small town and attending camp for the first time, soon meet boys such as Mick and Pudge and Jessie and Warren who are very different in attitudes, manners, and experiences from their own