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    Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light
    Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light
    Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light
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    Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light

    By Gary Zarr

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    Twenty-six Poems and a Night Light is a collection of recent work by the author of When I Was in New York.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 21, 2013
    ISBN9781481700887
    Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light
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    Gary Zarr

    Gary Zarr was born in Brooklyn, New York; and from there he set forth to make his way in the world. He has worked as a gofer for a mean-spirited second grade teacher at PS 185 (he slipped out of school each day to get the teacher’s lunch for a nickel), a grocery store stockman, a department store clerk, an office night cleaner (“Gary, ignore whatever you hear happening in the basement.”), a shoveler of snow out of driveways, a neighborhood dealer in comic books, a construction worker, messenger, a waiter, an editor, a freelance journalist, a high school teacher, a reading and writing tutor, a college instructor, a social research analyst, a graduate school lecturer, and as a senior executive in communications and marketing positions in government, non-profits and companies. His book, When I Was in New York, was published in 2011. He is a principal and co-founder of Phil & Co., a full service marketing and communications agency focused on nonprofits and companies doing good, located at Union Square in New York City, where he remains to this day, to the best of our knowledge.

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      Twenty-Six Poems and a Night Light - Gary Zarr

      A Cow, a Farmer, and Windshield Wipers

      Publishing these poems is like being both farmer and cow. Having let myself milk me, a feeling arises like mist off fresh grass in early morning, a sense of temporary relief and calm, what a devoted cow may experience when her attentive friend, the farmer, tends to her each day.

      Closer to the streets of cities, like nature the source of all real art, sending these poems out into the world is like having the wipers flip on in my life car, wash across a darkened windshield, making it easier for me to see what’s just ahead, as the collected images accumulated from miles of riding slide sideways in rivulets, as I continue to make my way further along the road, streams of life running downward left and right, collections of people and places and things tumbling onto the road itself, to be found perhaps by others, like

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