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    When I Flew
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    When I Flew

    By Gary A Lucero

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    About this ebook

    When I Flew is a collection of modern, lyrical poetry, covering a range of topics from social and political to fantasy. While some of the poems are reactionary, responding to current events, most are inspirational, informing the debate at hand and bringing important concepts to light.

    When I Flew spans the last twenty or so years of author Gary A. Lucero's life, and include short, concise pieces as well as longer, somewhat epic ones. War and its uselessness is a common theme, but religion, social inequity, government corruption and interference, love, death, and more fill the pages of this book.

    While some subjects are handled with a heavy hand and bluntly throttled, others are more delicately dealt with, and the overall feel of this collection is one of desperation and an unwillingness to accept the status quo. We as a race and a planet are being threatened, and at least some of those threats are dealt with here, but never with kid gloves.

    And while Gary A. Lucero's treatment is not always subtle, it is always thorough. Most themes are recurring, spanning the entirety of the book, which ties it all together with a cohesiveness and makes When I Flew's collection of poetry worth reading again and again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGary A Lucero
    Release dateJun 5, 2015
    ISBN9781311061515
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    When I Flew
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    Gary A Lucero

    I am a 50 something year-old tech worker of Hispanic/Basque origin and I've been writing poetry since I was 17 years old. I love video games, mostly single player RPGs, rock music, especially Neil Young and Yes, and British television and movies.I've written more crappy poetry than most people, but I deem a few as worth sharing with others. I call my poetry modern and lyrical, mostly because I write about modern topics and tend to use rhyming. I don't read much poetry myself, so my inspirations tend to be song lyrics rather than other people's poems.Why bother reading my books? They are free, which is a pretty decent incentive, but I tend to deal with social and political topics, and while I won't try to convince you I'm super well informed about either, I do care deeply and try to bring that to my poetry.

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