I Kicked a Stone in Metaphor

This book is a homage to writings of the late Jens Herbert Lichtenberger (1950-2016) With over 200 poems, vignettes, short stories and Haiku's gathered together, this book showcases the largely unpublished writings by Jens over his lifetime. Beginning in Jens' high school years to only days before his death in 2016. This compilation of his creative writing following Jens' family from Latvia through World War II to their new life in Australia as war refugees; His life growing up in...
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This book is a homage to writings of the late Jens Herbert Lichtenberger (1950-2016) With over 200 poems, vignettes, short stories and Haiku's gathered together, this book showcases the largely unpublished writings by Jens over his lifetime. Beginning in Jens' high school years to only days before his death in 2016. This compilation of his creative writing following Jens' family from Latvia through World War II to their new life in Australia as war refugees; His life growing up in Taywood St; through every decade of adventure and discovery.Jens also wrote travel logs, recollected dreams and wrote early drafts of imagined novels; excerpts from all these writings, preserved in journals and notebooks, are included in this collection. While not always completed to his very high standards, every piece offers a unique window into Jens' inner world and his development as a writer.