Bountiful Buffet: New and Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781939237187)

Nathan Polsky, author of this collection of poems, is a native New Yorker. He has been married for over sixty-four years to a woman with whom he attended their high school prom. They have two daughters. He was an elementary school art teacher, cartoonist, illustrator, fabric designer and artist. His work appeared in various newspapers and periodicals. He won an award from the New York Art Directors Club for a work commissioned by CBS. He is still a working artist. During World War II, he was a bombardier, flying over two dozen missions, earning a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars. Polsky has a BS and an MA degree from NYU. His professional career included being Director of several community arts organizations, Project Director at Macmillan and Houghton Mifflin publishers, and advertising manager with several paper companies. He founded and was president of Scratch-Art Co., an arts and crafts company, inventing and manufacturing many original creative art products for schools and commercial markets before finally selling the company and retiring. For the last several years, he has concentrated on writing poems, focusing on personal thoughts, observations, experiences, memories, etc. seeing the serious and humorous sides of life. His poetry is thought-provoking, silly, funny, and sometimes with themes that are perceptive and disturbing. These poems are the fruits of a long participatory life and should be shared.