Memoir from Monongahela Books

NEW copy, trade paperback. Introductory essay by BJ Omanson, illustrated throughout with photographs and period engravings, appendices, 191 pages. ~~~ It is not often that the diary of a 13-year-old will contain material of lasting interest. We cannot expect thoughtful reflection at such a young age, nor would we expect someone of that age to make a reliable observer of… Read more about this item

FINE, in 'as new' condition. (Harrisburg, PA: Archive Society, 1995). Facsimile reprint of original 1903 Scribner's edition. Finely bound in gray leatherette with stamped decorations, gilt inlays and gilt edges. Marbled endpages. Sewn binding. Three full-page photographic portraits. Index, 474 pages. ~~~ This edition OUT OF PRINT. from the Introduction: "For many years I have been urged to place on… Read more about this item

NEW copy, hardcover in dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Photographs, maps, list of military personnel. Jackson served with 95th Company, 1st Battalion, Sixth Marines, 4th Brigade of Marines, 2d Division (Regular), A.E.F from June 1917 until the end of the war and the German Occupation.

In his memoir, Three Years on the Nowhere Road, BJ Omanson recounts the strange and haphazard road that led him to a life of poetry-- a life of inadequate means, manual labor, wilderness solitude and-- as he was a high-school dropout-- nothing whatever to do with writing programs or academia. ---- In November of 1972, married scarcely a year and… Read more about this item