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The Letter S is a collection of verse about loss and how we choose to cope--or not cope--with it: How do we respond when someone tries to make off with our personal and political freedoms? How do we react when someone is dying? How do we deal with the difficult people in our lives, especially when their mere presence cuts into our happiness? What Pyrrhic choices are we expected to make when confronted by loss?

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T. Richard Williams is the pen name for Bill Thierfelder, Associate Professor of English at Dowling College, a liberal arts college on Long Island, New York. Mr. Williams has been writing stories and verse for over two decades and has been published in such journals as Wild Violet, Lucid Stone, Petroglyph, American Poets and Poetry, and Poetry Motel. His first collection of verse, David by the Sea, 25, Unshaven (Guyasuta Press, 1993) was well-received. He lectures regularly on poetry and other literary topics in the Northeast and is a popular professor who teaches a wide range of topics, from world literature to science fiction. He is a composer of several chamber works and three one-act operas and has had various exhibitions of his drawings in galleries around Long Island. As an openly gay man, he is also the faculty moderator for The Diversity Project, an organization sponsored by Dowling College that presents regular town hall meetings on current issues of diversity, prejudice, and bias. He has been involved in various GLBT causes for many years, including volunteer and activist work for the Momentum AIDS Project (New York City), GMHC, LIAAC, and LIGALY. He is currently a regular contributor to Outlook Long Island Magazine. He currently resides in Oakdale, NY and is an avid cyclist, gardener, and hiker. His recent work includes a second book of poems, How the Dinosaurs Devoured the Humans; a collection of short fiction called Ten; and a memoir of his 115-mile bike ride across Long Island during August of 2006 called Deliberate Living.

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