Ball of String

by Glenn Currie

Overview

Our lives are connected to each other and to the world by strings of one kind or another. Whether they are the ties of flesh and blood or the ways we choose to live, we share a planet and are dependent on each other for mutual support.

In Ball of String, Currie writes about his journey through life and how it connects us to each other through shared experiences, emotions, the need for humor, and the things we learn from our travels on this earth.

We may arrive here and leave here alone, but the journey between is the precious gift that we have been given. Take some time to treasure it as you enter into the introspective fields of Currie's poems and photographs.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161135761
Publisher:	Snap Screen Press
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Glenn K. Currie is a humorist, essayist, and poet. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1965 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1965–1969. He worked in corporate America from 1970–1986, during which time he traveled extensively, primarily in the Middle East. He and his family returned to New Hampshire and settled in Concord in 1986, where he maintained a private consulting business and became a freelance writer.
He was a regular contributor to the Concord Monitor for two decades and has also been an occasional contributor to New Hampshire magazine, and has written for other magazines and newspapers over the last thirty years.
Ball of String is Mr. Currie’s sixth published volume of poetry.

Editorial Reviews

New Hampshire's poet/philosopher, Glenn Currie says Ball of String might be his last book. I hope not. He is of an age where he can see both the here and the gone, the light pouring out, and the darkness pouring in. . . . He gives us those stories in photographs and words. He meeds me where I am. In this extraordinary collection of reminiscences and deep reflections, he may well meet you where you are too.

humorist, essayist, author of That Reminds Me of a Funny Story - Rebecca Rule

Glenn Currie's poetry and his new collection Ball of String brings us a new lens for everyday experiences, an intricate weave of life's light and dark sides, playful rhymes and unique photographs to compliment his poetic selections. His poems leave the reader with layered meanings and implications to ponder long after the first reading is over.

author of Drive-Through Window, Running on Empty and Other Voices/Other Lives - Barbara Bald

As a poet and photographer, Currie takes notice of the world the way . . . a beachcomber does after a storm—with a tenacious attention to the rough edges of life where all the treasures hide. Ball of String, his latest collection . . . is a memory box filled with moments of living light.

editor of New Hampshire magazine - Rick Broussard

In Ball of String . . . Glenn Currie matches arresting images with amusing and thought-provoking poems. Glenn captures both the profound and the quotidian aspects of life that tie us all together. It's a book rich with food for thought.

Executive Director, Children's Literacy Foundation - Duncan McDougall

Ball of String has a terrific sense of serendipity. Glenn Currie has something to say about friendship and aging, nightmares and free speech, summer dresses and mama birds. His poems are wistful, funny, and often wise. The accompanying photos are a delight.

deputy managing editor, Boston Globe - Felice Belman