Box Of Pain, Box Of Fear
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Award winning poet Bill Garten has written his fifth book of poetry, "Box Of Pain, Box Of Fear" which delivers vivid imagery and heartfelt words about broken relationships and their angst. Bill uses his reflective confessional style once more to impact our daily lives. He evokes the emotions within us that we hide behind with our everyday masks. In private you can as a reader journey into a land where you are safe to explore your own reflections and feel and heal as you experience Bill sharing his wounds through his poetry.
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Award-winning poet Bill Garten invites us to embark on a journey of the heart, soul and spirit. In Box Of Pain, Box Of Fear, he uses his reflective confessional style to once more impact our daily lives. These are poems that deliver vivid imagery and heartfelt words about broken relationships and their angst. Bill evokes the emotions within us that we hide behind with our everyday masks. In private you can as a reader journey into a land where you are safe to explore your own reflections and feel and heal as you experience Bill sharing his wounds through his poetry.
About the Author
Bill Garten is the winner of the Emerson Prize for Poetry and the Margaret Ward Martin Prize for Creative Writing. He has published poetry in hundreds of literary magazines and academic journals across the United States. Bill is the author of five books of poetry, “Black Snow”, “Red Rain”, “Eventually”, “Symptoms” and now “Box Of Pain, Box Of Fear” all published by Authorhouse. “Black Snow”, “Red Rain”, “Eventually” and “Symptoms” were all previously published by Cork Hill Press.
Bill has also been anthologized in three anthologies: “Wild Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950- 1999”; “And Now The Magpie”, a selection of winning entries of the West Virginia Writers’ Annual Awards Competition and “What The Mountains Yield”, a collection from West Virginia Writers.
Bill was born in Huntington, West Virginia and has lived in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio. He is previously a college professor of English and Business and has taught numerous creative writing workshops. Bill graduated from Marietta College with a degree in English. Outside of teaching college Bill’s career includes the fields of adverstising, marketing, broadcast and finance. He lives in Hudson, Ohio and travels the country in his free time giving poetry readings and conducting creative writing workshops. His hobbies include swimming, biking, snow skiing, hiking, golf and fishing. His email address is redlol2@aol.com.