My Inner Eye - Lepore, Michael F
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In My Inner Eye, Michael Lepore shares tender poems of loss and renewal, memory and hope. He takes us to visit with his Italian relatives: a grandfather sitting outside on a kitchen chair, bestowing a silver dollar to lucky grandkids, an aunt cooking up fried dough or her special tomato sauce, and more. We learn about his early struggles and enduring love. The chaotic sixties come to life once again. A compassionate look at the aging-whether it is a neglected barn or a lonely widow is part of this collection, and in these poems nature, too, offers its solaces, as in "Spring's Fancy," where…mehr

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In My Inner Eye, Michael Lepore shares tender poems of loss and renewal, memory and hope. He takes us to visit with his Italian relatives: a grandfather sitting outside on a kitchen chair, bestowing a silver dollar to lucky grandkids, an aunt cooking up fried dough or her special tomato sauce, and more. We learn about his early struggles and enduring love. The chaotic sixties come to life once again. A compassionate look at the aging-whether it is a neglected barn or a lonely widow is part of this collection, and in these poems nature, too, offers its solaces, as in "Spring's Fancy," where "seeds, like innocent hearts, sleep beneath their winter blanket."
Autorenporträt
Michael Lepore, a retired orthodontist lives with his wife, Nancy, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Upon graduation from the University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Lepore received a commission in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps and served his active duty attached to Headquarters, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, N.C. 1968 - 1970. He is chaplain and treasurer of the local Veterans' Service Commission and paymaster of the Peter P. Monaco, Jr. Detachment of the Marine Corps League. Dr. Lepore is the author three other poetry collections. His third book, Moral Injury, received the Gold Medal Award from the Military Writers Society of America in 2017.