My Cinema Paradiso: A Movie-Marathon Lifetime Memoir In 3-D Poetry - Paperback

by Tom Lyford (Author)

MY CINEMA PARADISO is a Baby Boomer's memoir in poetry, counterpointing events and issues in the author's life with specific films from the 1940's to the present. The book celebrates Cinema Americana as the Great Escape and the Great Teacher.

Author Biography

A baby-boomer and film buff, Tom Lyford enjoyed a thirty-four-year career of teaching high school English in the state of Maine before retiring to pursue writing his poetry and humorous memoirs. He has previously published five chapbooks and one full-length memoir. A second memoir is due out late in 2010.