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Home and honorably discharged before turning twenty-one, he meandered for a few years in the time of the anti-war movement and psychedelic drugs that were the late sixties and early seventies. He found his feet in aviation with his first introductory flight. He immediately knew piloting an airplane was what he wanted to do. His involvement in the drug culture led to incarceration and jeopardized his future, though. He met a woman fell in love and has been married for forty-two years. They raised a family and built a house while he struggled to stay employed as an airplane pilot. The ebb and flow of the pilot employment market led to various jobs and even an attempted career change. After earning a degree at a culinary school, he bought a failing restaurant and gave it a go for a few years. Before becoming bankrupt he managed to get back in aviation as the restaurant was failing. The return to flying was in turbine powered equipment at first doing more night freight work, but it led to his best job ever. Someone ran an ad for a position in Africa Sabreliner Captain wanted so I can give my man a holiday. The timing was perfect because it was the same type airplane he had been flying. The job was for a month but he stayed on for four years as pilot for a dictator's cabinet in the heart of Africa. It wasn't all smooth air over there but survive he did. On returning to the States he went back to grass roots stick and rudder agricultural aviation for three years spraying corn in Iowa. In the journey there was one wife, two children, two sailboats, one airplane and one house built. He also earned two Associates degrees. 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In describing The Last Decade, Norman called the Elegy: For Hedda sequence, the center of the poems. It is the emotional pivot point and contains his wrenching exploration of the intimate bonds that continue to link Norman and his wife, Hedda, after her death. Elegy documents his painful struggle to build a life again. The earthly fabric of their symbiotic relationship is torn apart and yet a new spiritual connection begins to form between them. The Wound stuns the reader in its visceral detailing of the affair between the older poet and his new lover. The knife-edge, carnal hunger exposed in these poems reveals a love that is a composite of all the fervid emotions that came before: sexual desire, jealousy, suspicion, envy, hatred, despair, longing, surrender, loss and the unexpected reunion's desperate lovemaking. Elegy and The Wound and the poems in the section Losses \u0026amp; Silence create powerful narrative tension around grief and erotic love and loss, while the Quixotic sense of humor that informs Biography of Ipsithilla and poems such as Short Poem On the Long View, as well as many in the section City\/Cities, represent contrasting and refreshing balancing acts of subject and composition by the poet. Naturally enough for Brooklyn's Poet Laureate, The Last Decade contains many poems celebrating Brooklyn and especially its eponymous bridge. (I take great comfort from the fact that I live around the corner from the most beautiful bridge in the world.) There are also poems that reflect the urbanness of Norman Rosten's spirit-such as Brooklyn Handball Player and Grasshopper In Prospect Park. His well-known love of Mozart and classical music (a theme found in many poems he published in his career and reflected in his opera librettos) is here delightfully recalled in Music On the Brooklyn Barge. Bargemusic, a Brooklyn chamber music performance space that Norman tirelessly promoted, held a special memorial concert featuring selections from the many and varied musical compositions based on his poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53429872394513,"sku":"NIN9780989560979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780989560979.jpg?v=1776418365"},{"product_id":"autumn-travels-book-ronald-thomas-rollet-9781442103146","title":"Autumn Travels","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53479935967505,"sku":"NIN9781442103146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781442103146.jpg?v=1777539826"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-ronald-thomas-rollet.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}