Poetry, Politics and Possibilities

About the Book

About The Book Here are samples from a lifetime of reading and writing and teaching classical and contemporary poetry and literature with deep interests in history, philosophy and psychology and religions. These poems have visions that we hope invite your attention. In Poetry Nan has some fun with commonly revered icons and received forms and formations, and finally seduces her favorite poet. In Politics she ridicules the tawdry immorality of international spies, popular journalism and petty racism. Back to School remembers high times with her remarkable students. In The City takes us to some of the foolishness of jury selections, and her thrall in city scenes. In The Country we read of some poignant bucolic experiences she loves, joyful and sad, and Head and Heart expresses Nan’s personal concerns: interactions with friends, lovers, political actions, religion and hope. The story Church Fair exposes the interactions of a gang of church congregants at a fundraising event in a squabble over worthless secondhand merchandise. Daddy is a short-short story that is taken from a real account in the Los Angeles Tribune.

About the Author

Nanette (Nan) Ozias Asher Flatau earned her BA degree in English Language and Literature at Westminster College in Pennsylvania and her MA at New York University with concentrations in Shakespeare and Literary Criticism. She has studied and performed at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and has taught theatre, writing, poetry and literature in several high schools and colleges in Pittsburgh, Long Island and the City University of New York, lately at Hunter College High School where her Shakespeare Club studied and performed in England at the Globe Theatre and in Stratford upon Avon with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She founded and directed Queens Shakespeare, Inc. in New York City for seven years, published a novel, The Come From Always, and poems in several periodicals, including Freshnet, Windmills and Bridges, and Poets by Pen and Brush. This is her first collection of poems and short stories. She currently lives and writes and enjoys in the upstate New York cultural mecca that is Saratoga Springs.