NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST AUTHOR, Douglas Preston (Cities of Gold, Monster of Florence, etc.) has this to say: "I have been reading the poems of Ed Oestreich with enorm-ous pleasure. His keen and graceful eye examines a wide variety of human experience, encompassing the cycles of life, the vicissi-tudes of growing old, the small pleasures of nature and the roll of the seasons. These lovely poems, no matter what their subject, are somehow imbued with the quiet rhythm of life on the sea-coast of Maine. I wholeheartedly recommend this wonderful book of poetry, Far From Home." Kelly Patton, professional theatre director, author, writes: "In his book of poetry, Far From Home, Ed Oestreich has used ink wells" tears of collective memory to pen his verse. These poems are reminiscent of Emily Dickinson in elegance and style. Many of the poems speak to the melancholy loss of growing older-but always followed with words-of an exquisite "returning" in recol-lection . . . . "