Anteroom Poetry

by Neal M. Warren, Adam Lizakowski

Overview

Poetry That Reaches Out And Draws You In

Two poets, from different pasts and countries, met in San Francisco. They formed a bond like epoxy, two different solutions mixed together. The result was a strong mutual respect and friendship. As quickly as they came together, a time for parting arrived, but not before one proposed a joint venture, to merge a number of their poems into a short book. The result was accomplished in 1986 and was called Anteroom Poetry.
Adam Lizakowski continues writing to this day. Neal Warren filled cartons with journals and in 2010, when his wife insisted he go through his papers and see what he can get rid of, he began turning hand written pages from his past to digital format and published his first solo book. When he came to his copy of Anteroom Poetry, he realized how many friendships drifted away and decided to renew those he could.
What better way to renew a friendship than to share the spotlight together once again.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016063232
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc
Publication date:	12/21/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	61
File size:	354 KB

About the Author

Adam Lizakowski is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His poetry was published in Polish and English, but also in Spanish, Russian, German, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian.
In 2010 he received first place from The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Poetry Award (formerly the Elma Stuckey Poetry Award) presented annually by the Department of English at Columbia College, Chicago. He was the winner of “Old Father William’s Fabulous and Curious Poetry Contest,” organized by Caffeine Theatre, Chicago.
He received his BA (graduated with honors) in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia College, Chicago.

Neal Warren in 1968, ducked behind a parked car when a taxicab backfired. Steven Schultz, his neighbor from across the street saw him and yelled that he wasn’t in Vietnam anymore, he was home. It was 1983 before he jumped again. Neal wrote about anything but Vietnam until the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983. That’s when “No More Vietnam” became a theme, a chant, a shout, a bumper sticker, and Neal returned emotionally to the distant hill depicted in his poem “Imagery of War – 1967”. That started his long journey home. Neal is now assembling his third book of verse and is contributing his extra time with the Taking Flight Theatre Company as he approaches retirement from a humdrum office life.