RAIN and DARKNESS

About the Book

Peter O. Blaustern, an admitted loser, attempts to translate his passivity into the action of a novel. His inability to honor what he considers to be the requisite limitations of first-person narrative entails his disclosure of the inabilities that can account for his being a loser (but not a quitter). Peter manages to write an erratic novel for losers about the dignity of losing.

About the Author

Those who can, do; those who teach, do something else. Roy Arthur Swanson began dong something else as the principal and upper-grade teacher of Maplewood Elementary School in North St. Paul, Minnesota, and went on to teach Latin at the University of Illinois High School, Classics and English in Indiana University, Classics and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, and Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At Minnesota and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he received a total of four awards for Distinguished Teaching. Blue Margin is his attempt to learn an approach to spirituality by teaching something about the mystery of words.