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Studies in Smoke

Studies in Smokeis not fiction. The shared event is actual and the resonance real. So is this.


This poetry remains faithful to traditional form. It is true to life and to living simply while thinking too much.


It is true to the cycle of uneasy, never settled sentiments that prescribe no moral, no message, no mysticism. In plain language and the fitting phrase, this work is authentic to the voices of inanimate shadings, to the shifting shapes that drift into evanescent experience.


This work offers the painterly touches not yet digitalized in the mind’s eye.


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Charles Edward Fremuth

Charles Edward Fremuth received a B.A. from Princeton University, where he published in The Nassau Lit, and an M.A. from the University of Michigan. He dedicated his teaching career to Detroit Country Day School, where he served as chair of the English department for twenty-five years. The International Baccalaureate Organization appointed him assistant assessor in the Theory of Knowledge and site evaluator of prospective schools (19972003). He led workshops in the Theory of Knowledge for teachers and heads of schools in the United States and Canada, and was selected to present “Epistemology in King Lear” at the International Baccalaureate North American Regional Conference (San Francisco 2008). His teaching was recognized in several local articles and by various national awards (1993, 20062008). In 2017 he retired to collect his writings.

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