An Unsuccessful Mission
Hope, Warren
Robert L. Barth (1983)
In Collection
#4688
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Poet
Paperback 0941150151
Product Details
Edition limited edition, 62 of 100; signed
Nationality American
First Edition Yes
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Read It Yes
User Defined
Conflict Vietnam
Notes
Newman 1180.

"These poems record the observations of an enlisted ambulance driver in Vietnam during the war, but no combat experiences are included." -- Newman 527


After graduating from Philadelphia's Central High School, Hope served in the United States Air Force

Warren T. Hope is an American poet and university professor. Hope was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1944, and educated in the public schools there. After graduating from Philadelphia's Central High School, Hope served in the United States Air Force, and then attended the Community College of Philadelphia. Eventually, Hope received a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English from Temple University. He worked as a printer, a warehouseman, and as an editor, eventually working in publishing and public relations at the Insurance Institute of America and the American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters in Malvern, Pa. He is currently employed as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Hope is the author of several books, including Adam's Thoughts in Winter (2001), which includes a selection of poems from the years 1970 to 2000, and Moving In (2004), wherein Hope details his life experiences in poetic form. He is also the biographer of Norman Cameron, the British poet, and the author of critical studies of Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, and George Orwell, all published by Greenwich Exchange of London, England. He is the author, with Kim Holston, of The Shakespeare Controversy, published by McFarland & Company in 1992. He has also published articles and reviews in periodicals.
-- Wikipedia