Dramatic and lyrical poetry of the classroom experience in a high school of largely minority students. The "minority" aspect is sometimes and in some ways incidental and sometimes not so. After all, any way you cut it, it's still high school, with all the humanity and absurdity that the term implies. Part two of the collection, Moments of Balance, explores the tensions between inner and outer conflicts, reacting to a world at perpetual war with itself and sometimes striking zen notes particularly in appreciations of nature and music.
Dramatic and lyrical poetry of the classroom experience in a high school of largely minority students. The "minority" aspect is sometimes and in some ...
Michael MacKensie and Sarah Wilinski travel from Atlantic City to Cape May to the Bahamas and back again trying to take themselves seriously and to make their world real through work and love. Through MacKensie's position as advisor to an Atlantic City investor, and through his own turn at the blackjack tables, this philosophical, touching, and sensual narrative lends perspective to the place of gaming in the world. Set in the years of Atlantic City's dominance, just before the proliferation of casinos on the East Coast, All Bets Down is first and foremost a thoughtful and provocative love...
Michael MacKensie and Sarah Wilinski travel from Atlantic City to Cape May to the Bahamas and back again trying to take themselves seriously and to ma...
