Orange Sherbet and Hot Chocolate

About the Book

Orange Sherbet and Hot Chocolate, was originally published in 1979. Through staged reading it has found new life. The basic human needs don’t change… and the need for meaning and understanding still lingers in the heart. These poems satisfy some of that need. Orange Sherbet and Hot Chocolate is poetry both personal and inclusive. Personal in that most poems are about individuals and particular situations… inclusive in that the poems are universal in emotion and impact.

About the Author

Richard Gordon is a poet-playwright living in Lake Elsinore, California. He is the author of Martin and the Mountaintop: an Illustrated Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His play, Bulldog and the Bear, won the coveted Lorraine Hansberry and the Michale Kanin playwriting awards in 1983. For the past twelve years Richard has taught Oral Interpretation of Children’s Literature, at California State University, Fullerton.