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    After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff
    After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff
    After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff
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    After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff

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    This is a book of short poems in which the author shares intimate moments from her own life which have universal appeal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 12, 2012
    ISBN9781475926880
    After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff
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    Ardith Hoff

    Dr. Ardith Hoff holds a B.A. in teaching, an M.A. in art, and an Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction. She studied poetry at the University of Northern Iowa, Drake University, and informally at Harvard University. She has taught in the arts at every level from kindergarten through graduate school. Her most recent teaching experience was at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She taught, for ten years, in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, National Outreach Division. She taught “Creative Arts in Learning” in a master’s degree program for teachers. After her retirement she was a supervisor on two national research projects. She also spent seven years as a mentor for beginning teachers at the high school near her home in Calmar, IA.

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      After All These Years - Ardith Hoff

      Copyright © 2012 by Ardith Hoff.

      Front Cover: The Gardner Family, 1943 Family Photo Album

      Back Cover: Ardith And Darrel in Tokyo Personal Photo Album

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-2687-3 (sc)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 06/07/2012

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      I

      Lessons

      After All These Years

      Childhood on the Farm

      in the Forties

      Sisters

      Always the Charmed Life

      Inheritance

      II

      Fire

      Thinking of You

      Marriage

      That First Spring

      Together in Paris

      Fifty-Some Years Later

      Today

      Flutter

      Soul to Soul

      Distance

      Moods

      Tiredness

      Sleight of Hand

      Morning Glory

      Orchestration

      Dolphins at Dawn

      Sacrifice

      Womanhood

      To Infinity and Beyond

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