Epiphanies and Benedictions, Poems and Stories by Earl LeClaire

Nov. 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Earl LeClaire does not write poetry. Earl LeClaire writes life. He takes very high resolution pictures of the world with his mind’s camera and then, with the precision of a sci-fi computer somewhere between Clarke’s HAL and Asimov’s UNIVAC, he translates each pixel into such precise words, lines and stanzas, that one forgets where the color ends and the poetry starts and where did that thief called time disappear.

Biography

Earl LeClaire, poet and raconteur, has worked at a myriad of jobs including, fisherman, lobsterman, nuclear piping designer, historical researcher, cab driver, and chef. He has been writing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction since 1971. He has published poetry, fiction and food articles in many small press and major magazines in the USA and Europe. Earl was awarded first place in the Aquillrelle Poetry Contest 2 for the poem, “Below theMayonnaise Factory”. He is the author of two cookbooks, Cove Creek Farm.Org‘s Old Timey Appalachian Good Foods and Game Cookbook and Old Swamper‘s Shellfish and Clambake Cookbook. His book of vignettes, Night Taxi, is currently out of print. His first book of poetry, Below the Mayonnaise Factory, is available through Catawba Press. Earl, 70, lives in the still rugged and beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina half a mile from the Tennessee Line. Deliverance, he is quick to remind you, was a product of the late James Dickey’s sometimes strange and twisted mind. However, he says, if you hear banjo music, paddle faster.


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