Parlor Tricks: collected poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500801120)

e author has lived and worked in the Hudson Valley of New York for 23 years. He attended Cornell University in 1968 and left (after a series of mutual disappointments) to pursue a career in music. Graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA degree in 1975 and an MA in music from NYU in 1981. He then spent two years in the Merchant Marine before returning to the Hudson Valley in 1989 to raise a family, supporting them thru IT computer contracts while planning to open Silver Stream Winery which opened in in 2004. Presently he writes and plays bass with the New Sussex Symphony Orchestra. He has written plays, poetry, published a non-fiction work on the chaining of the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War, 'Donderburg's Pumpkin Vine' and an as yet unpublished non-fiction work on the collaboration of Samuel Morse and Ezra Cornell in creating the commercial telegraph network. His major work of fiction is the 'monoville' trilogy of which the first volume is in print.