Poetry. ARCHEOLOGY OF LIGHT is a collection of poems of peace and love and harmony by one who has explored deeply in the Asian cultures.

Author City: Bogota, NJ USA

Bill Wolak is a poet, translator, teacher, and scholar, living and working in New Jersey. He has published three collections of poetry: Pale as an Explosion, LOVE EMERGENCIES (with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak), and ARCHEOLOGY OF LIGHT. He has translated Joyce Mansour, Stuart Merrrill, and Francis Vielé-Griffin. His most recent translations with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, YOUR LOVER'S BELOVED: 51 GHAZALS OF HAFEZ, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2009. His translations have appeared in such magazines as The Sufi Journal, Baslat, Persian Heritage Magazine, Atlanta Review, THE DIRTY GHOST, Beacons, and Fellowhip Magazine. His critical work and interviews have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Persian Heritage Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Ascent, Beatlick Magazine, and Florida English. Mr. Wolak has been awarded several National Endowment for the Humanities scholarships and two Fulbright-Hays scholarships to study and travel in India. Mr. Wolak has traveled throughout Asia, including trips to Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Jpana, and China. In 2007, he was selected to participate in a Friendship Delegation to Iran sponsored by the Fellowhsip of Reconciliation, the nation's largest and oldest interfaith peace and justice organization. During the Summer of 2010, Mr. Wolak was awarded a Field Study Opportunity in China and Japan by the National consortium for Teaching About Asia. He has been selected to be a featured reader at the 2011 Kritya International Poetry Festival in Nagpur, India. Mr. Wolak has beeen an adjunct professor in the English Department at William Paterson University for over twenty years.