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I Am Here, Let’s Go Home

Poems of San Francisco, of Earlier Times and Places

by Wayne Luthi

I Am Here, Let’s Go Home
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I Am Here, Let’s Go Home

Poems of San Francisco, of Earlier Times and Places

by Wayne Luthi

Published Aug 13, 2021
75 Pages
Genre: POETRY / American / General



 

Book Details

Even the roses cry when a poet dies . . .

As with a gourmet meal, the whole experience is a combination of flavors, scent, presentation, and atmosphere. It is this that I strive for in my writing. Poets often take what has been given to them in their experience and deconstruct and reconstruct perception in a way that can offer the unconsidered a different perspective. Sometimes lyric can quiet or console, sometimes it can stick as a pollen grain of realization. Experiences of images, places, and people are shared here for the inner world of imagination and reflection, hopefully in a way that joins with something in you. The theme and focus of this work is of a time period when I lived in San Francisco, England, and Thailand. I was fortunate to “live” in the coffee houses and on the streets of the beat poets, to spend endless hours in the late Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Book Store. I was fortunate to have been able to play as a child in the sacred hollows of the redwood trees. This book celebrates those worlds.

 

About the Author

Wayne Luthi

wayne Luthi has been writing poetry since 1967. His working career has taken him from Air Traffic Control in the Air Force, to IBM as a financial analyst, to his own business doing landscape design and landscape construction.

Wayne was born in San Francisco, California, and lived in the city until almost
5 years old when his family moved to the suburb of Redwood City where he spent his boyhood. he joined the Air Force in 1966 and spent the first two years after training at RAF Alconbury in England, and in 1969 spent one year in Korat , Thailand at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base.

Upon leaving the Air Force he finished his college education at San Francisco State graduating in January of 1974 with a degree in International Relations.

A one-year traveling job brought him to Louisville, Kentucky where he met his wife and has since stayed. In Louisville, he worked for IBM as a contract administrator and financial analyst unit in October  1994. Since leaving IBM he has established himself in his own business of landscape design and build.

As an avocation, he has studied psychology and models of growth work which
led him to teach for The Mankind Project and also to teach in the Jefferson County Jail's  Pathway's Program for inmates due to be released within 6 months. His studies also brought him to become a facilitator of Family Constellations work that allowed him to facilitate workshops, a few of which were held at the  Kentucky State Reformatory.

wayne has his own website:     wayneluthi.com

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