10 to 17 February Afternoons

10 to 17 February Afternoons

"Every journey must begin with a first step, and this was mine. It began the lifelong odyssey of traveling Poetry Road."The first volume of poetry by Lawrence E. Keith, "10 to 17 February Afternoons and Other Poems" was originally published in 1977. It was personally typeset by the author on an IBM Selectric and printed on newsprint by a local printer. The title poem was written on the 10th and 11th of February 1972 and put in its present form by the 17th. "Its rough edges have been preserved," Keith writes. Also from the preface:"I began writing poetry as a means of self understanding and discovery, while serving in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971. The “Other Poems” section in this volume dates from that time through early 1977. It was a period of personal exploration of Poetry, initially influenced by the English Romantic poets of the early Nineteenth Century. Many of the poems were written for, and dedicated to, family and friends, as well as writers and thinkers being studied."