The Many One

About the Book

A collection of poetry written over the years dating from the stormy activist era of the 1960's until the present. These poems of loss and redemption focus on my childhood memories of a simpler time of innocence when growing up on the family farm in Puyallup, Washington.

The whole range of human emotion is explored from early poems of love to the iconoclastic recent political poem "This is a Recording".

This is a poetic journal of the journey of my life: tales of dead ends, detours, depressions, illuminations and epiphanies included.

About the Author

Paul Burr began writing poetry at the age of 16. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest his poems and writing have been published in regional publications including the Klipsun. A veteran reader at many poetry readings in the Bay Area in the 1970?s, Paul graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974.

Paul quit law school the following year to pursue the writing life. He currently teaches poetry and writing at Tacoma Community College and is working on a childhood memoir titled Wind Haunts. Paul ?devours? books, still loves music and enjoys growing plants. He has a ?wild? sense of humor and is a mesmerizing storyteller. He lives in Edgewood, Washington with his wife Patti, his daughter Miri and two cats and a dog.