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    Rejecting the New Millennium
    Rejecting the New Millennium
    Rejecting the New Millennium
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    Rejecting the New Millennium

    By Don A. Hoyt

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    Rather than embrace the popularized songs and the hype that accompanies the turn of Y2K, Don A. Hoyt examines the real accomplishments that one might expect from a thousand years of new experience. His lyric typifies only a lateral progress: "Behind the blue layers / is the dark of beginnings / disguised as emptiness / the abyss..." (Genesis Repeated). He finds "Fences / along / the road / visit every / nation.... Refugees have more than we" (Refugees). The evolution of consciousness has "grown static like the lost age of Aquarius" (Rejecting the New Millenium).
    --- Randy Fingland, Publisher, CC Marimbo Communications, Berkley, CA

    In this taut collection from memory and experience, from Deep-South meanderings, Don Hoyt records the "natural history" of his personal journey towards the New Millennium, examining, questioning, rejecting, creating, re-creating, interweaving his sparse images, packing them into these 33 poems for transit into tomorrow, and as a time capsule to leave behind, a poet's testimony extracted from the "blue layers" of yesterday, put down on paper inspite of the "blinding light." Since we have little choice but to accept the New Millennium, Hoyt's poems give us an opportunity to rethink where we have been, where we are going, and how we may relate to the dawning of the "New Age" and the territory left behind.
    --- Errol Miller, author of Forever Beyond Us and Downward Glide

    Reading Don Hoyt's poetry is worth the effort it takes to penetrate its dense, sometimes abstract surface. I think, the greatest joy in reading his verse results from the musical and intellectual control, and the constant surprises of thought and ear. His is an outstanding talent, and reading him offers the reader incalculable rewards.
    --- Harry de la Houssay, poet and teacher

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDon A. Hoyt
    Release dateSep 3, 2012
    ISBN9781476304618
    Rejecting the New Millennium
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    Don A. Hoyt

    Don A. Hoyt grew up in New Orleans in a single parent home, residing mostly in public housing projects. He dropped out of high school to serve 4 years in the US Navy and later went on to earn a B.A. in English (1973) and two Master's degrees: Education (1977) and Public Adminisrtration (2004).Hoyt's career in education (Wossman HS, Grambling State University, Louisiana Delta Community College, and Downsville Charter School Board) spanned 17 years. His career in Public Administration (local agency Assistant Director, city Planning and Development Director, County Administrator, and City Manager) spanned 24 years. While working at GSU, he managed a consulting business, Hired Hand Outsourcing, which served municipal clients across Louisiana to adopt Comprehensive Plans and development ordinances. Hoyt officially retired in 2013 from his position as the City Manager (Chief Administrative Officer) of the City of Anniston, Alabama, population 25,000; however, since 2016 he has taught one or two Composition classes at LDCC.Over the years Hoyt has published numerous poems, short stories, and literary essays across the country. The following 40 academic presses have published Hoyt's works of fiction, poetry, and/or literary commentary.Providence College, Providence, RINorthern Illinois University, Chicago, ILCalifornia State University Northridge, Northridge, ILUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ALRoger Williams College, Bristol, RIEastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KYAngelo State University, San Angelo, TXUniversity of Mississippi (Ole Miss), University, MSDeKalb College, Clarkston, GAUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, IOUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, FLUniversity of Houston, Houston, TXSalem State College, Salem, MALenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NCPiedmont College, Demorest, GANortheast Louisiana University, Monroe, LABerea College, Richmond, KYKansas State University, Manhattan, KSIdaho State University, Pocatello, IDNichols State University, Thibodaux, LALouisiana State University at Eunice, Eunice, LACalifornia State University at Long BeachWright State University, Dayton, OHUniversity of North Dakota, Grand Forks, NDCalifornia State University, San BernardinoUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PACollege of the Mainland, Texas City, TXStephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TXSan Jose State University, San Jose, CARoanoke College, Salem, VASierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NVPikeville College, Pikeville, KYCleveland State University, Cleveland, OHUniversity of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WIUniversity of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WISchoolcraft College, Livonia, MIGrambling State University, Grambling, LAKent University, Canterbury, Kent, UKFranklin College, Lugano, Switzerland

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