About the poet: American Vice Consul in Marseille, France, a teacher in public and private schools near Boston, Philip E. Burnham, Jr., was born in Rochester, NY, and grew up in New England. He has a PhD in Medieval History.
2003 0-7734-3453-4 These poems encompass ordinary and extraordinary moments: history from the perspective of a teacher-scholar and traveler, routines of a one-time neighbor, Adam, the poignancy of family life, the mysteries revealed in the farthest reaches of the universe and in the backyard garden.