Description
POETRY: A Delightful Journey Through Life is an arrangement of over eighty well-selected classical poems into eight basic life stages in which most people pass through or experience in the course of a lifetime. These eight stages are Childhood, Beyond a Bumbling Society, In Search of Love, On Pain and Irony, Satisfaction with the Simple Things of Life, The Seasons, On Death, and Lines to Lift and Inspire. Each of the eight stages is first introduced within an appropriate setting or frame of mind under which the selected poems follow. The reader is then carefully introduced to each poem, making it more readily understood. Inasmuch sym as poetry generally uses figurative symbols and imagery, the reader, coming from any number of backgrounds of education and experience, is allowed to put his or her own finishing touches on the poem, and can thus experience personal enjoyment from the poetic images embodied in the poems. Sterling has had an identified interest in writing since one of his grandmothers recognized and acknowledged it to him during his teens. He finished his BS degree in Sociology and English at BYU following a year of active military service during the Berlin Crisis. Upon graduation, he taught high school English for several years in the salt lake area. Then after receiving his MSW degree at the University of Utah, he seerved for over thirty years as a clinical social worker and writer.editor for the Utah State Department of Health.
