Thanatos on a Southland Freeway

About the Book

In Thanatos on a Southland Freeway the reader senses a range of dark, brooding cloud poems on the horizon, and as the wind blows each moves overhead and deposits its contents on the reader below. A sense of interesting dread and a mysterious forest of words attempt to lure the reader in, and keeps him there trapped.

About the Author

Jack Bowman was born in 1962 to a working class family in southwestern Ohio, but soon moved to southern California where he lives today. The changes in subculture as well as the "spirit of the times" affected his writing and philosophy. He graduated from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in behavioral science. He graduated from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena with a Master of Arts in marriage, family and child counseling in 1997. His work in the mental health field since 1984, as well as his own bizarre life experiences, figure prominently in his poetry and prose. Jack is an intern/therapist with at-risk youth and their families in the Los Angeles area. He has been a published poet since 1991.