Six Words Fresh Off the Boat by Larry Smith
Six Words Fresh Off the Boat marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith's successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television's hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The book captures hundreds of takes on the immigration experience, from every-day people as well as world-famous celebrities including Aziz Ansari, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julianne Moore, Mario Batali, George Takei, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Billy Collins, Junot D OEaz, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This book will have you thinking in sixes and challenging others to share six words about their lives.Larry Smith is a native Midwesterner who grew up in a working-class household in the Ohio River Valley's industrial heartland. He graduated from Muskingum College in Ohio in 1965 and married Ann Zaben, a local girl, at the age of 22. That summer, he worked in the steel mills before traveling to Euclid, Ohio, to teach high school and Ann to work as a nurse. Kent State University awarded him a master's degree (M.A.) and a bachelor's degree (B.A.). and Ph.D.), and was there during the protests and student shootings.
Brian, a son, was born in Huron in 1970, and Suzanne, a girl, in 1975. In 1980, he visited Sicily as a Fulbright professor in American Literature. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, a memoir, six collections of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two collections of Chinese translations with co-translator Mei Hui Huang.
He taught writing and literature at Firelands College from 1970 to 2010 and served as director of the Firelands Writing Center, a cooperative of writers. Two of his film scripts on authors James Wright and Kenneth Patchen were produced into films with Tom Koba and aired on PBS. He has edited over 65 books and published over 200 titles of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction as the director of the literary publisher Bottom Dog Publishing, Inc. Smith has also contributed to the American Book Review, Parabola, Small Press Review, Choice, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohioana Quarterly, Heartlands, and the New York Journal of Books as a reviewer.
He's been invited to speak at writers' conferences in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. His poems has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on American Public Television. The novel The Free Farm (2013), Each Moment All: Meditations as Poetry (2012), and Lake Winds: Poems (2014) are among his most recent works. At the Converging Pathways Meditation Center in Sandusky, Ohio, he enjoys playing guitar and meditating.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781368008389 |
| ISBN 10 | 1368008380 |
| Title | Six Words Fresh Off the Boat |
| Author | Larry Smith |
| Series | Abc |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Kingswell Books |
| Year published | 2017-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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