The Orchard By The Sea

by Janusz Czubakowski


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 19/07/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 143
ISBN : 9781477139431
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 143
ISBN : 9781477139455
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 143
ISBN : 9781477139448

About the Book

``The Orchard by the Sea’’ is my second collection of poems. The first, ``The Maze Beyond the Garden,’’ also published by Xlibris, skimmed the cream; this one is, I hope, somewhat deeper and, perhaps, darker. I have long considered that measure of some sort, whether accentual, syllabic or metrical, is essential to poetry. Further, I believe a poem should not be a puzzle to solve but an experience to be felt even at its first reading, although further reading may disclose dimensions not readily apparent. I have also found myself drawn to the intricacies and contradictions, as well as the dramatic possibilities, of the monologue or soliloquy, since years can easily be compressed or moments extended while sustaining a particular time, place and mood. Not all the I’s are me nor all the you’s someone else. And the events are often fusions of memory and imagination and further altered by the passion of the moment or the logic of the form – the seeming inevitability of the next image. For the rest, I must let the work speak for itself and for me.


About the Author

Janusz Czubakowski was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1935, the second son of Polish immigrants. At 10, Longfellow’s ``The Skeleton in Armor” awoke his love of poetry. He has worked as a counter of holes in IBM punch cards, a technician for the University of Chicago library’s photo-duplication laboratory (drilling holes in concrete, among other duties) and as a copy boy on the New York Daily News. He once was obliged to subsist solely on 3 pounds of bananas a day for 11 days (they cost 6 cents a pound). He enlisted in the Army in 1955 and worked on the TB and men’s closed psychiatric wards at the hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Eventually, he became copy desk chief for Electronic News. He is married, with one son and two grandsons, both with English accents. He lives in Maine with his wife of 50 years, Alexine.