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Traveling Through Time: Collected Poems
by William Marr
953 Poems ~ 452 Pages
Encompassing 1956 – 2025
Publishers: William Marr and Alan Harris
Price: Free Downloadable Link
https://alharris.com/william-marr/traveling.pdf
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Traveling Through Time is a gift from one of the finest poets writing today. Traveling Through Time is also a journey. Bill Marr’s journey encompasses some seven decades of active poetry publishing. Known and respected on the world stage of letters, this treasure chest of 953 poems will provide many hours of enjoyment, inspiration, and technique for newcomers and seasoned poets alike.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
Knowing Bill Marr has been a many-year joy, due to both his jovial personality and his stream of excellent poems. When I joined the Illinois State Poetry Society in 1996, Bill had already finished serving a term as president, and he has been a devoted member of the Society since then. I have been watching Bill’s development as a prolific poet of short, incisive, and often witty poems. He writes both Chinese and English languages. His poems have entered the hearts and bloodstreams of readers in the United States, China, England, France, Italy, and other countries. Along with his poetry writing, he is also an accomplished painter and sculptor.
–From the Foreword by Alan Harris: author of Noon Out of Nowhere: Complete Poems and Aphorisms
Having reviewed two of Bill Marr’s collections for Quill and Parchment and having long admired his poetry, endorsing Traveling Through Time is simply icing on the cake, to use an overworked cliché. I have recommended Marr’s poetry to many aspiring short-form poets. Hallmarks of his work, for me, include his ironic and often humorous twists that bring closure to his poems. TTT is a gift made more valuable because of Bill Marr’s heartfelt generosity of a free downloadable link.
–Michael Escoubas, author of Images: A Collection of Ekphrastic Poetry
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
William Marr, born in 1936 in Taiwan, came to the United States in 1961 as a graduate student. He received his MS in mechanical engineering from Marquette University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. After working in energy and environmental systems research for many years at Argonne National Laboratory, he retired in 1996 to devote his full time to writing, painting, and sculpting. So far, he has published over thirty books of poetry in Chinese, English, bilingual (Chinese/English), multilingual (Chinese/English with French and Italian translations), and one Korean translation. A longtime resident of Downers Grove in Illinois and a former President of the Illinois State Poetry Society, he holds two lifetime achievement awards, including one from the Marquis Who's Who Publications Board. In 2019, he was awarded the 60th Literary Award from Taiwan's Chinese Literature and Art Association. In 2020, he was chosen as Poetry Hall’s first poet laureate. His most recent bilingual poetry books are A Dreamless Night, and Every Day a Blue Sky–Humorous and Satirical Poetry. Both can be purchased from Amazon. Since August 2019, the Chicago Chinese News has been publishing one of his bilingual (Chinese/English) poems every Friday on its front page without interruption. In 2016, in celebration of his 80th birthday, his two sons and their wives set up the William W. Marr Scholarship for Creative Writing in the College of Letters & Science of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
FROM THE BOOK:
From 1976
SHARING AN UMBRELLA
by William Marr
Sharing an umbrella
I suddenly realize the difference between us
Yet bending over to kiss you
gives me such joy
as you try to meet me halfway
on tiptoe
From 2018
ENERGY CONSERVATION LAW
by William Marr
the scientists keep warning about
GLOBAL WARMING
the skeptics keep declaring
FAKE NEWS
now I understand why my body
feels warmer and warmer
while my heart
is getting colder and colder
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