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senior center by ed galing ($6)...

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the next voice you hear... by ed galing ($5)...

loose ends by ed galing ($6)...

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Words Of Wisdom combines two of Ed Galing's very first chapbooks: Words Of Wisdom and Blowin' In The Wind, first published by Peerless Press and reprinted here in a new layout and polished professional look. The poems are much different than Ed's later work, but contain the seeds of his writing growth. Preserved here for posterity, the poems are young, chipper, detailing life as observed through the eyes of a man then in his seventies, already feeling the weight of the world and age. Many of the poems carry a fragile rhyming scheme, tripping along like a babbling brook, in rhythm and with the slight swing of ease and flow and no pretense, often shorter in length with a walloping punch line. This collection hops all over the year with poems of winter, fall, spring, and summer; beaches and snowstorms; New Year's to Mother's Day to Thanksgiving to anniversaries to Father's Day to January to October and back again. Its endless rhythm of skipping and jumping through ideas and times and feelings mirrors the skipping rhythm of the poems themselves, taking you on an endless cycle of time and a fast-paced glimpsed journey of life as it flies by, caught momentarily on these pages before it leaves us in its wake. added on 2008-12-20

words of wisdom by ed galing ($5)...