Starting as a teenager in the 1980's, award-winning playwright and novelist Dennis Edelen began keeping a journal of poetry, mirroring his experiences and thoughts coming of age in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First centuries. This collection of the most significant pieces, spanning the years 1981 to 2011, presents a unique mosaic of an everyday life documented in an unusual and creative way. Drawing from influences as wide-ranging as classical literature and the First World War, modern music and the Romantic tradition, THREE DECADES/ONE LIFE is an intimate self-portrait framed in poetry and songs, creating a lyrical biography spanning thirty years.
Starting as a teenager in the 1980's, award-winning playwright and novelist Dennis Edelen began keeping a journal of poetry, mirroring his experiences and thoughts coming of age in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First centuries. This collection of the most significant pieces, spanning the years 1981 to 2011, presents a unique mosaic of an everyday life documented in an unusual and creative way. Drawing from influences as wide-ranging as classical literature and the First World War, modern music and the Romantic tradition, THREE DECADES/ONE LIFE is an intimate self-portrait framed in poetry and songs, creating a lyrical biography spanning thirty years.
A South Florida native, Dennis Edelen has been an actor, magazine editor, fingerprint technician, and children's story-teller. He currently works as a librarian for the University of Miami. He has written widely, in multiple forms and genres. His play "Three O'clock" won the Millennium award in 2006, and his poetry collection, "An Awfully Big Adventure", dealing with the experience of the First World War (included in this volume), won the 2008 Forum Award in Humanities. He is the author of the novel "Jehanne: A Story of Joan of Arc". He is surrounded by books, and owned by two cats.
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