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    Tanka Road Trip
    Tanka Road Trip
    Tanka Road Trip
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    Tanka Road Trip

    By Sam Turner

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    Tanka poem about a road trip through Arizona to attend a conference on hearing loss.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Turning Point Publication
    Release dateOct 9, 2015
    ISBN9781519932945
    Tanka Road Trip
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    Sam Turner

    Sam Turner, a retired art and writing teacher who served with the Arizona Education Association Innovative Teaching Techniques Cadre as a Trainer of Trainers in Facilitating, is a freelance writer. He's contributed to Arizona Highways and The Aviation and Business Journal. He teaches memoir writing, and he and his wife Phyllis have published This Might Help: A Three-Year Walk Through the Valley with the Compassionate Friends, a compilation of monthly columns published in the Tucson Chapter newsletter, Walking This Valley. Compassionate Friends offer guidance, comfort and hope for parents who have suffered the death of a child. Sam has been journaling for forty years and offers his most recent work, Living with the Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis, in hopes that, for those considering a procedure, this record might put them at ease.

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