A Voice Will Run

About the Book

The poems, meditations, and stories in this book are a reflection on the life of family, faith, and work the author has so richly experienced. This collection of free verse, sonnets, rhyme schemes and prose present a multitude of images and ideas that can be discovered over and again with each new reading. A testimony to American life and work that can be kept close at hand on any bookshelf for thoughtful and insightful reading.

About the Author

After graduating from Gannon University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, John Carver spent six years on Buffalo’s waterfront loading boxcars with one hundred pound bags of flour and later, cutting and milling steel at a processing plant. He spent the next 41 years as an inside and outside salesman in the steel, aluminum and copper industries traveling eight states, two provinces and Mexico. He and his wife of 48 years, Mary Ellen, raised 3 children, two of which served in the Iraq war, and have 11 grandchildren. They have been members of St Paul’s Parish in Kenmore, NY since 1976 devoting much of their time to its mission. He sees his extended family of 7 siblings and 30 first cousins regularly, spending time with many of them at their shared property in the Southern Tier of New York State.