Arguing with Something Plato Said

by Jack Collom

Poetry. "Here, you'll find no simple-minded roars of indignation (or whispers of self-indulgent post-idyllic wistfulness) brought on by the words ecology and environment - GREAT SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS WIT, ELOQUENCE, AND PASSION! There really is a here here, in Jack Collom's environs poems. So, this is it! Look no further! Get this book!" -Anselm Hollo.

Genres: Poetry

63 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1990

About the author

Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He was an adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom was the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom was twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He had four grown children and was married to the writer Jennifer Heath.

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[Sarah]

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