David B Lentz

Old Greenwich Odes: Volume Ii: Collected Verse with Black & White Photography David B Lentz

Publisher Marketing: These simple and elegant poems emerged over a decade of living amid the beauty of a New England village on Long Island Sound. The poetry portrays everyday life in Old Greenwich in seeking sea glass, Back Country stone walls, equestrian pursuits, village life, views from walking the shores of the Sound and the embrace of true love. The black & white photography of Virginia Lentz is tender and evocative of the simple lyrical voice of the poetry. The collected verse is both serious and comic with ditties, limericks, prose and doggerel. "The literary equivalent of high def... the reader is bombarded with rich text that infuses the senses." -- Greenwich Post "'Old Greenwich Odes' has great insight into Greenwich's beauty. This collection of poems truly reflects Greenwich and Old Greenwich. The words remind you of the places you have seen and the people that surround you in this special town." - Chrysa Tsilibes, Amazon "Lentz's approach to writing is soul driven - searching for the meaning of life and evaluating an upside-down world." -- Weston Forum "His pixilism is a sort of 21st century, digital metaphor that has similarities to French Impressionist paintings. Each sentence represents an idea, image or treatment of the big picture." -- Redding Pilot "Lentz especially likes to explore how creative people survive and contribute in a large and often impersonal environment. What is the role of a talented individual, an artist for example, in a complex, vast society?" -- New Canaan Advertiser Contributor Bio:  Lentz, David B Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College and has written professionally for decades as an executive for global, financial corporations. He is a Member of the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, the Center for Fiction in New York and the Royal Society of Literature in London. Currently, he resides with his family in Greenwich, CT. In addition to "Sonnets from New England," Lentz has published six literary novels -- "For the Beauty of the Earth," "AmericA, Inc.," "Bloomsday," "Bourbon Street," "The Day Trader" and "The Silver King." He wrote a tragicomic stage play, as an American sequel to James Joyce's "Ulysses," entitled "Bloomsday," and has adapted his novel, "AmericA, Inc." for the stage. He has written a book of collected verse in "Old Greenwich Odes." He created a new literary theory for reviewing novels in his "Novel Criticism." Selected excerpts from his collection of literary works among his novels, stage plays and poetry are available in "Essential Lentz." He has served Bates College as an Alumnus-in-Admissions, the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Ad Club, the Philadelphia Mayor's Council for Literacy, Stamford-Greenwich Literacy Volunteers of America, Healing the Children (Board), Midnight Run for New York City Homeless, Hurricane Katrina JazzAid: New Orleans (Founder), Hope + Heroes Children's Cancer Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation for Children's Cancer Research and as a Volunteer in St. Paul's Chapel at Ground Zero.