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Swinging Away A Celebration is Victor Pearn's testament to poetry, friendship, and faith. The story of hislife from joining the Marines in 1969 to becoming a professional publisher is told with his innate gift fordescription that captures the personalities and quirks of his colleagues and the literary luminaries thathe happens to meet. For Pearn, becoming a poet was an ongoing series of adventures that took placefrom Illinois to Colorado and from Mexico to China, where he taught English. The narrative is pepperedwith poetry samples and musings on the natural world, academia, and spirituality.Sports fans will appreciate Pearn's tales of the 1969 Wyoming Cowboys football team and the 1957season of the high-school basketball team, the Ashland (Illinois) Panthers. Book buffs will enjoy his takeon reading and the great works of literature. Film buffs will relish his adventure as an extra in aHollywood movie. Service members will be entertained by his stories of life in the Marines. Whateverlife offered him, Victor Pearn keeps swinging away to make sure he comes out on top-and manages toput it into a poet's perspective.