The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback-poetry book
Number of pages: 119
Description: The Lost American is about one man's journey into exile over the Vietnam war many years ago, his struggle, his survival, his...road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems.
Table of contents: title: About The Author; title: Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is heavy influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Leonard Cohen, and Irving Layton. 200 plus poems are published or pending publication 2007 early 2008;; title: over 100 journals, anthologies, online publications.  He is presently self-employed, with a previous background in social service areas. He has; title: a B.A. degree in sociology, worked on a Masters Program in Correctional; title: Administration, started a pre-Phd program and quit. He took a creative writing course in university on a pass/fail basis-he failed. He is published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria Africa, India, United Kingdom. He is a member of Poets and Writers, Inc; Directory of American Poets and Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory.; title: Most of the publishing has been accomplished in the last 6-9 months.; title: But, the last 6-9 months are somewhat deceiving, considering he had a huge box of "unfinished" poems, dating back to 1965-67 to the present. Plus many new poems have evolved recently. In fact, poems are getting published faster than he can revive or revise them. Yellowed papers, wrinkled napkins and all, they wait for the hand of revival. He; title: hasn’t submitted poems till recently-since the early 70's,- remember, the "old fashioned" way, via snail mail.; title: 6 Top Things Mr. Johnson likes in his life:; title: 1) His interests in the study of spirituality, religions.; title: 2) Nikki, his beloved kitten, and best friend.; title: 3) His fire deep in his belly for universal health care in the United States so everyone has; title: access to care, not just the rich or extreme poor.; title: 4) His drive to find a way to survive old age in poverty.; title: 5) His need to leave a legacy behind for others, no matter how humble or small the; title: contribution.; title: 6) The support of his true friends, Carol Marcus, John Balaskas, and Dawn Edder (who; title: have had to read his poems and share his success over and over again, via email).