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Swinging Away A Celebration is Victor Pearn's testament to poetry, friendship, and faith. The story of his life from joining the Marines in 1969 to becoming a professional publisher is told with his innate gift for description that captures the personalities and quirks of his colleagues and the literary luminaries that he happens to meet. For Pearn, becoming a poet was an ongoing series of adventures that took place from Illinois to Colorado and from Mexico to China, where he taught English. The narrative is peppered with poetry samples and musings on the natural world, academia, and spirituality. Sports fans will appreciate Pearn's tales of the 1969 Wyoming Cowboys football team and the 1957 season of the high-school basketball team, the Ashland (Illinois) Panthers. Book buffs will enjoy his take on reading and the great works of literature. Film buffs will relish his adventure as an extra in a Hollywood movie. Service members will be entertained by his stories of life in the Marines. Whatever life offered him, Victor Pearn keeps swinging away to make sure he comes out on top-and manages to put it into a poet's perspective.

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"""A good choice for 20th-century American poetry collections."" George M. Eberhart, Senior Editor American Libraries ""This is an important work by a major American poetic voice."" Kirk Judd, Poetry Judge for Writer's Digest ""As a young Captain in Vietnam, through my career as a Major General, I have experienced many scenes and feelings that are in Victor's poems."" Donald R. Gardner, CEO, USMC University Foundation ""There is a long tradition of War poetry, and now Victor Pearn's Devil Dogs and Jarheads belongs on the list. The same instinctive urge in these poems reminds me of the very best of Pearn's writing."" Shelby Stevenson, Editor Pembroke Magazine"

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"Victor Pearn, Marine, award winning poet, and book publisher. A week after receiving an honorable discharge he became a student at Lincoln Land Community College. While a freshman he published his first two poems, and made the dean's list. Skipping his sophomore college year he entered Sangamon State University (SSU) in Springfield, Illinois as a junior. After a semester there, he spent the summer studying and writing in Madrid; he graduated from SSU with a double major in Individual Option. His degree in the Individual Option program was: People, Poets, and Institutions. He earned his MA in English Literature at Colorado University in 1983. Garrison Keillor has read his poems on the ""Writer's Almanac,"" radio program. Pearn was invited to be Poet-in-Residence at Quincy University, in Illinois. In 2005 he established Pearn and Associates, a book publishing company which has published 61 titles by award winning authors. His poems have been published in more than 300 publications. His poem ""Living Inside Confucius Wall,"" was translated into Mandarin and published by Jining University in China. His poems have also been published in Swansea, Wales, Canada, and the Virgin Islands. Swinging Away: A Celebration is his 15th book. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Senior Editor of ""American Libraries"" magazine (retired) and a noted bibliographer."

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