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The Mud of the Marsh: |
This is a book of poems that see the cycle of life through the lens of Wachapreague, a small seaside town on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The book attempts to capture the reality and fantasy of Wachapreague and life.
About the Author
Raymond E. Vickery, Jr. has been coming to Wachapreague over
the past four decades. His experiences there have inspired this book. Ray
was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi. He grew up in Virginia and has lived
in the Commonwealth almost all his life. He served in the Virginia House
of Delegates for three terms, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the
Clinton Administration, and as a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of
Hogan & Hartson
(now Hogan Lovells). He is currently a Senior Director in the Albright
Stonebridge Group, an international consulting firm. A graduate of Duke University
and
the Harvard Law School, he is a former Fulbright Scholar in South Asia
and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author
of
numerous articles on international trade and India. His book The Eagle
and the Elephant: Strategic Aspects of US-India Economic Engagement is
forthcoming from the Woodrow Wilson Center Press in 2011. The Mud of
the Marsh: Wachapreague Poems is his first book of poetry. With his
wife Ann and his sons Morgan and Philip, he is at home in the 1883 LeCato
House at Wachapreague and
on
his boat, "The Southern Cross."
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