Springhouse
Subtitle: a book of poetry
By: Pat Patterson
Publisher: Wasteland Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Shelbyville, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781600474484
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "I am sharing some of the poetic flotsam and jetsam of over fifty years, from college in 1957 to spring 2010....Observations of nature, personal feelings, projections about human experience have long been my themes....Living in a retirement community and celebrating this spring my 75th birthday have moved me increasingly to explore themes of aging, death, loss, and remembrances of dear family and friends"--Foreword.
Notes: Pat Patterson grew up in rural Maryland, received her BA in English in 1957 from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel) in Westminster, MD, and her MA in Religion and Literature in 1965 from Drew University Graduate School, Madison, NJ. Pat served as an educational missionary of the United Methodist Church at Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College and University in Tokyo, Japan 1957-61, 65-72. She was a mission executive based in New York City 1972-2000. Her successive portfolios included missionary continuing eduation and innovative persons in mission programs; Japan, Indochina and Korea area executive liaison work; and finally coordination of the Japan-North American Commission on Cooperative Mission (JNAC). Still committed to justice and peace, Pat Patterson lives now actively retired (since 2000) at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, California, caring for friends, working and praying for peace and occasionally writing poetry.

First printing, May 2010.

Bound in original color illustrated paper covers.