Thompson, Stanley Paul

Stanley Thompson has continued writing poetry since the publication of his book, Sonnets of Life Well Spent. Of his now nearly 3500 poems written, 850 are newly written sonnets, and it is from these that he has selected 400 for this tome. A retired Naval Officer and pilot of carrier jet aircraft, he received his Master's degree in Meteorology at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has taught college mathematics, statistics, oceanography, and naval history at four separate universities. Nonetheless a late entry into the field of poetry, he has embraced it ful...