Definitions of a Radical Centrist

By William Driscoll

"This collection is among the most caustic and politically charged of William Driscoll’s work. Filled with invective, anger, satire and slice, the poetry collected here highlights the darker side of human nature, the machinations for power, and the unintended consequences of greed and cupidity."

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Driscoll
• Release date: Oct 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370258796

William Driscoll

Born on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, as a boy Will was more at home on the beaches, local playing fields or exploring the woods behind his house than in a classroom. Precocious and free-spirited, he was given to the rough and tumble of sports and other physical activities. All this changed the day he discovered what he would later call--"the magic book; the first book that made the movie go in my head"-- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Devouring it, the Lord of the Rings and later The Silmarillion in consecutive readings, his life-long love of fantasy and poetry began. During his high school years, now an avid reader, Will became a student of science fiction/fantasy, mythology and folklore and would seek out similar works by Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Stephen R. Donaldson. Graduating from college with honors, he received his first awards in the genres of poetry and short fiction while, all the while, his own fantasy world was slowly taking shape in his imagination. In 1988 surrounded by family and friends he married the love of his life, rock singer and part-time journalist for the Soho Weekly News, Kelly Andersen. Together they have three wonderful children, Shae, Erin and Erik. While Will wrote, Kelly went on to a long successful third career as a restaurateur and is currently a sought-after health and lifestyle coach. Throughout his writing life, Will has always considered himself a poet having written seven books of poetry along with a number of short stories, three movie scripts and an Off Broadway play. At the same time, like some model train enthusiast lovingly shaping an H0 scale paradise in his basement, he was tinkering obsessively with his fantasy world which presented first as hastily written notes in a journal; these scratchings would later become notebooks and then computer files filled with detailed histories, maps, poetry, character sketches and stories. Twenty-two years after that first note was taken, he decided to pull it all together and began Godsfade, a high science fiction/fantasy series set in a dystopian future, The Living Gods, Awakening in the Hollow and The Dark Gate being the first three installments.

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Terracom Poet Series

Definitions of a Radical Centrist

or

The proof of the positing

is in the testing

or

If you lie down with Argonauts

you get fleece . . .

William Driscoll

Terracom Books

Definitions of a Radical Centrist

Terracom Books/October 2016

Smashwords Edition

Published by Terracom Books

A Division of Terracom Media

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are imaginary.

Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or locations is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher.

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Copyright ©2016 by William Driscoll

ISBN–13: 978-1-370-25879-6

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About the collection

From the height of his middle poetry, marked by linear stanzas and staccato lines designed to shape the contours and control the pacing of the poems, this collection is among the most caustic and politically charged of William Driscoll’s work. Filled with invective, anger, satire and slice, the poetry collected here highlights the darker side of human nature, the machinations for