Food and Fire is a small collection of poems written on themes of love and hate, anxiety, alienation, depression, rage and frustration as a former peasant orphan (Inmate # 8759, Rhode Island--see Dr O'Brien's War here on scribd.com), teenage rebellious hooligan, and serious philosophy college Honors Student in the 1960s and 70s, then Columbia Grad School, and later up to about 1996.
Some poems are given from a separate volume, Wampumpeage, which reflects Native American themes after I discovered and embraced my Canadian roots.
I am not an academically trained poet which may be a contradiction in terms. My poems come to me in dreams, and I write down what I am told without any substantial editing.
My Metis mother, Lillian Mary O’Brien (nee Fortier), was the primary influence in my early years of living in the USA. I dedicate these works to her memory. She died tragically and miserably at age 48 in the Rhode Island State mental Hospital while I was interred in an American concentration camp, characterized as Staatliche Psychologische Totenlager, also in Rhode Island.
Food and Fire is a small collection of poems written on themes of love and hate, anxiety, alienation, depression, rage and frustration as a former peasant orphan (Inmate # 8759, Rhode Island--see Dr O'Brien's War here on scribd.com), teenage rebellious hooligan, and serious philosophy college Honors Student in the 1960s and 70s, then Columbia Grad School, and later up to about 1996.
Some poems are given from a separate volume, Wampumpeage, which reflects Native American themes after I discovered and embraced my Canadian roots.
I am not an academically trained poet which may be a contradiction in terms. My poems come to me in dreams, and I write down what I am told without any substantial editing.
My Metis mother, Lillian Mary O’Brien (nee Fortier), was the primary influence in my early years of living in the USA. I dedicate these works to her memory. She died tragically and miserably at age 48 in the Rhode Island State mental Hospital while I was interred in an American concentration camp, characterized as Staatliche Psychologische Totenlager, also in Rhode Island.
Food and Fire is a small collection of poems written on themes of love and hate, anxiety, alienation, depression, rage and frustration as a former peasant orphan (Inmate # 8759, Rhode Island--see Dr O'Brien's War here on scribd.com), teenage rebellious hooligan, and serious philosophy college Honors Student in the 1960s and 70s, then Columbia Grad School, and later up to about 1996.
Some poems are given from a separate volume, Wampumpeage, which reflects Native American themes after I discovered and embraced my Canadian roots.
I am not an academically trained poet which may be a contradiction in terms. My poems come to me in dreams, and I write down what I am told without any substantial editing.
My Metis mother, Lillian Mary O’Brien (nee Fortier), was the primary influence in my early years of living in the USA. I dedicate these works to her memory. She died tragically and miserably at age 48 in the Rhode Island State mental Hospital while I was interred in an American concentration camp, characterized as Staatliche Psychologische Totenlager, also in Rhode Island.