Nolo Segundo

Nolo Segundo, pen name of retired teacher (America, Japan, Taiwan, the war zone of Cambodia) Lj Carber, 78, became a late-blooming published poet, essayist, and fiction writer in his 8th decade in over 240 literary journals in 21 countries on 4 continents and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net. Cyberwit.net has published 3 poetry collections in softcover: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE; OF ETHER AND EARTH; and SOUL SONGS. These titles reflect an awareness gained in 1971 when he almost drowned in a Vermont river: that he has–is–a consciousness predating birth and surviving death, what poets since the Psalmists and Plato have called the soul.