My Story
Lance Carden (shown at left) was a longtime editor and writer at The Christian Science Monitor newspaper. He has published four books of poetry: Tuscan Retreat (2013), City of Lions (2015), Spiritual Exercise (2019), and The Civil War, It Ain't Over Yet (2021). In 1989, Boston College published his book Witness, An Oral History of Black Politics in Boston 1920-1960, reprinted by Wipf and Stock in 2022. His latest book is The Air Bridge Between Berlin & Me (2024). See reviews below!
Three Books
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It is the thesis of this poetry book that Americans are still fighting, sometimes violently the Civil War we thought was over more than a century ago!
This is not a book about spirituality. It's A CELEBRATION of spirituality as a normal and essential element of self-realization and human progress.
This is a narrative about black politics in Boston from 1920 to 1960, taken from the memories of black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989.
Reviews for Berlin
This is such a unique book. Congratulations for writing it and piecing together your disparate experiences in Germany. I found it a love letter about Germany, emotionally, historically, and politically – and as a morality tale. You have the ability to draw the reader into the scene with your eye for detail and the emotional drive of a young man seeking love and his place in a world filled with loneliness and alienation. It was heartfelt. Such a story would touch the lives of many who have had similar experiences.