A Million-Dollar Bill surveys our lives in America up close and personal from the first young summer taste in "Watermelon Seeds" to the hopeful hand-made creation of legal tender to purchase the necessities and accessories of the American Dream in the title poem. Quirky, original, and astute, this expansive and engaging poetry collection by Eric Paul Shaffer entertains even as each poem presses readers to pause and think for a moment. From love to death to parking the car, from rain to ice to sky to falling stars, the little insights that grow large in language are here for the reading. Best of all, with A Million-Dollar Bill, you can keep the change.…mehr
A Million-Dollar Bill surveys our lives in America up close and personal from the first young summer taste in "Watermelon Seeds" to the hopeful hand-made creation of legal tender to purchase the necessities and accessories of the American Dream in the title poem. Quirky, original, and astute, this expansive and engaging poetry collection by Eric Paul Shaffer entertains even as each poem presses readers to pause and think for a moment. From love to death to parking the car, from rain to ice to sky to falling stars, the little insights that grow large in language are here for the reading. Best of all, with A Million-Dollar Bill, you can keep the change.
Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of nine books of poetry, including L¿haina Noon; Portable Planet; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; AMillion-Dollar Bill; Even Further West; and Green Leaves. More than 600 of his poems have been published in the USA, Australia, Canada, England,Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales. Shäer received Hawai'i's 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for L¿haina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. He won a fellowship to attend the Summer 2006 Fishtrap Writers Workshop and was a visiting poetry faculty member at the 23rd Annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference in 2015. Shäer lives on the island of O'ahu.
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