Rolling Home & Entering the Valley

About the Book

K. K. Paddywhack is the authors alter ego, derived from the 1950s Burl Ives folk song (knick knack, paddywhack, give a dog a bone...).  Like the author, Paddywhack is now old,living in suburbia, surrounded by suburban grassy lawns.  Rolling Home is his songbook written at the end of the 20th Century as he contemplates his mortality.

Entering the Valley & Other Poems includes verses from the authors earlier chapbooks along with a collection of more recent poems. One recurring theme is living as an elderly member of that CroMagnon species which first emerged during the Ice Ages.

About the Author

Ben Bohnhorst is professor emeritus from Michigan State University’s College of Education. A life-long admiring reader of poetry, he turned to writing poems himself only after his retirement in 1986. He has published four chapbooks with the Ridgeway Press of Roseville, Michigan, and he serves as president of the Poetry Society of Michigan. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, most regularly during the 1990’s in the pages of the Spring and Fall issues of PENINSULA POETS. He resides with his wife of fifty-six years in East Lansing. They have four children and seven grandchildren.