A Moment of Sky!: Poetry with Space to Write

comes from the effervescent light of Midwest American faces, from thickening landscapes inside and outside of ourselves, hitched on precious memories and cartwheeling curiosity. Through Bill Lemmer's eyes and ears in the chorusing of others to shape this poetry, the writing speaks simply and sincerely with a calm reassuring power, vibrant color and rhythm, uplifting scenery, dialogue, and humor, with the intense cerebral quality of reverential release from the strain of unwanted mental noise in our daily routines. The author was born and bred in the Corn Belt of America. Life was rooted in old fashioned rural values such as goodwill towards others and the well-being of people hitting hard times. During the seminal decades of the Civil Rights and American Indian Movements, he received a Wall Street Journal Scholarship while at Knox College in Illinois, and worked as a writer for the Mankato Free Press and United Press International in Minnesota and the Dakotas, before leaving his native land for Britain at the backend of the Vietnam War. Bill Lemmer's other books are , a novel, and , the latter from work as a British Professor of Mental Health and Head of Department at Canterbury Christ Church University and Director of the Dementia Centre for Southeast England.