John Chuback lives and works in northern New Jersey, just outside of New York City. He has been fascinated and compelled by the creative arts and fine arts since childhood. His father, is a great afficionado of classical Persian poetry. This passion for poetry was passed along in childhood by way of verbal tradition and had a powerful impact on Chuback's early formative years. Of particular attraction was the imaginative potential of poetry and the many directions, forms and styles it could take. The freedom from constrictive rules and excessive structure made this form of self-expression particularly seductive from the beginning. Later, in high school and college, Chuback had the opportunity to study poetry more formally. He worked for several years under the tutelage of Professor Vartkis Kinoian while an undergraduate student at Fairleigh Dickinson University. During this wonderful stretch of time, personal style and voice were developed through writing, criticism, and recitation. In this collection, John Chuback shares selected works from the past 30 years or so in an effort to express some of his personal feelings and memories to anyone who may be interested in poems.