Quebradillas

About the Book

A collection of short poems about life in rural Puerto Rico and elsewhere.

About the Author

John Dickey has been a geologist, research scientist, university professor/dean, NSF program director, and Director of Outreach and Research Support of the American Geophysical Union. He has enjoyed and written poetry since his youth. In addition to numerous scientific and policy publications Dr. Dickey is author of On The Rocks (John Wiley, 1996), a book about the earth and planetary sciences and scientists for the general public, and Earth: A Narrative in Verse (AuthorHouse, 2005), which tells our planet's story from the birth of the solar system to the demise of the Sun as a fading white dwarf. He lives in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico.