Wayne Luckmann
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One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix...
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Northwest Passage offers a selection of poems that traces the poet's own development and the development of his poetry in both style and substance. The poems in this collection presents the significance and meaning of various events during several decades, many of those events taking place within the rich setting of the Pacific Northwest.From the disturbing imagery of "Nuremberg Revisited" to the hope of a new year in "Reconnaissance...
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Having finished his first year of college, Felix Fist sets off to complete his year of wandering: Leaving a dreary room in a derelict building on Anaheim in Long Beach on the border of the ghetto, Felix hitches rides to Oregon, works for the first and only time helping harvest grain, then takes to the road again traveling back to his place of origins where he encounters friends he thought he knew.His trip back through purple mountains, painted desert,...
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The stories and sketches collected in The Buried Life offer an intimate perspective of people responding to challenges they encounter in dealing with the conditions of their lives. These vignettes revolving around a variety of story lines introduce a wide range of characters, some are set against the background of events during the 1940s and 1950s depicted in A Stirring of the Air, Shifting of the Light. Others develop initial incidents in a culture...
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Reviewing lost times on Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s and beyond, this chronicle offers memorable events of an extended family of European heritage, some immigrating to America at the start of the 20th century. Recalling those events, the chronicle depicts how feelings and dreams deferred influenced perceptions and responses to the challenges of living in a new social environment and changing culture. Through its search for lost...
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Times were not the best nor the worst during the late 1950s when Felix Fist set out for California to attend college and fulfill the dream he had always thought impossible, the only one in his extended family to even aspire toward that auspicious goal. Facing challenges, many of his own making from a limited social and cultural background, Felix responds ingenuously as a participant observer in absorbing the unexpected emerging events of the turbulent...
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Camp Cory director for many years, facing a new season with additional staff, including a newly appointed business manager also acting as a senior counselor who holds differing views as to how the camp should be managed, Henry Carter finds that the changes in staff along with a significant increase in camp inhabitants from different ethnic, social, and economic background soon begin challenging his direction of the camp and ordering its program of...
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Waking from recurring dreams that sometimes troubled him, Felix Fist woke in darkness and the stillness of morning before dawn."Thus begins one man's quest seeking peace, love, and understanding through searching lost times.Receiving an unexpected letter by snail mail, Felix Fist with some reluctance follows his compulsion and returns to his origins where he attends an event that begins a summer of reunions forcing him to finally face who he was and...
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A Free and Open Nature, volume 5 of Rate of Exchange chronicles the continuing pilgrimage of Felix Fist in his quest for understanding of the world, of others, and of himself. Entries spanning years found in notebooks stacked in what was once a box for shipping Granny Smith apples reveal the challenges he had faced: His struggle to control his addiction to alcohol. His living through close encounters that had compelled him to face himself in his attempt...
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Having been moved by what he had found in a manila envelope stuffed with letters that had summoned up remembrance of lost times, Felix Fist began a dedicated search through other storage boxes, one containing weathered notebooks into which he had entered observations of varying consistency and regularity. Reading through five years of those entries that spanned four decades, Fist learns without surprise why he found himself where he now lived and...