LIGHT AND DARK

About the Book

Light and Dark, a paperback book of more than 100 pages, contains both light verse and more serious poems, as well the long poem The History of Astronomy which is written in heroic couplets. Appended is O’Neal’s essay Why I Write. A number of these poems have been previously published in literary magazines. Samples of these poems, and other work, can be found at the author’s website: davidloneal.us.

About the Author

David O’Neal, a retired from the antiquarian book business in 2001 and now devotes his time to writing non-fiction, short fiction, essays, articles and poems. He has published the humorous The Sailor’s Hornbook, or ABC; and An Alphabeastiary, a work of 52 light poems about animals and birds; and Light and Dark, a collection of light verse and more serious poems; the funny A Squash Doubles Primer. His professional work has been published in The American Book Collector, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. More recent creative writing has found publication in Sensations Magazine, Golf Magazine, Writers’ Forum, Bird Keeper, Creativity Connection, Working Writer, The New York Times, The Marin Poets Anthology, Street Spirit, Nut House, The Storyteller, Vision Magazine, etc.

O’Neal lives in San Francisco with his ridiculous parrot, Streak. Other than reading and writing, his hobbies are sailing and squash.