"First Across the Continent" from Noah Brooks. Journalist and editor (1830-1903).

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Noah Brooks captures defining moments of his childhood, relationships, depression and reconciliation in life. The poems and experiences and pictures sewn together themes within his story as a way to remedy hurts, honor experiences and add to the conversation of often undiscussed topics. In a lifetime dominated by silence and fear, this collection of poems is a process of grieving for the past, reclaiming a narrative and finding joy in small moments in life. In many ways, these poems are not only the story of Noah Brooks, but many truths of hurt and hope underlying relationships with others...