HOPES AND MEMORIES

About the Book

As indicated by the titles the poems reflect hopes and memories. Every so often , as the author indicates, he is hit by lightning and ideas come to mind in the form of poems. Words have to be changed only rarely.

About the Author

Henry Tedeschi has a background in science. A graduate of the University of Chicago he has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois Medical Center (Chicago) and the State University of New York at Albany. He has written numerous technical articles, several technical book chapters, a monograph and two printed editions of a textbook in Cell Biology (Academic Press and W.C. Brown) One additional edition was placed on the web. Born in Italy he was sent to boarding school in Switzerland when Mussolini’s racial laws prevented him from attending school in Italy. He spent several formative years in Argentina. He left at age 17 when he emigrated to the U.S. to attend college at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written fiction and poetry all his life for his own pleasure. He abandoned his first project, a novel, at age six or seven because he decided he lacked experience, a sensation that still haunts him. He enjoys writing, particularly short stories. He finds writing fiction revealing. It opens a window into observed details of human behavior, times and places that are otherwise ignored. He has published with authorhouse or iUniverse two mysteries (A Day at a Time and Double) and six books of short stories (Three for the Road, Long and Short Stories and More Long and Short Stories, Small Steps, Tales of Past and Present and More Tales of Past and Present) .