In The Final Hike Rod Grant draws on his long and varied experience to explore nature, life and death and the fate of man in his lyrical and moving
style. In his poem The Final Hike from which the title of the book is taken, he describes the last of his annual April 5 pilgrimages to the Dungeness
Spit.
In the Soul at Bay he draws on his early work to describe the anguish of a young man facing the challenges of life and his own frailties in powerful
and insightful verse.
Mengenai Pengarang
Rod Grant is a philosopher, artist and world traveler. After receiving a degree in philosophy from the University of California, he pursued a career
in the Foreign Service with assignments in Europe, Asia and the United States. He retired to the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington with its
mountains, forests, rivers and sea from which he draws inspiration for his poems. He now lives in a retirement community in northern Virginia. He
brings a lifetime of experience, contemplation and wisdom to he carefully crafted verse.