Poetry. FROM ADOLESCENCE TO SENESCENCE is not so much Ben Milder's autobiography in poetry as it is a sort of poetic "photo album" of the author's life. Each of the book's twelve sections is a page of snapshots that lets us see what's made this master of light verse keep on ticking well into his nineties. Milder's delightful and poignant poems on everything from work and socializing and faith to love and travel and family reflect a life both examined and lived to its fullest. So, come along, with Ben Milder, on a journey from the teenage years to the ripe old age of young-at-heart.

Author City: SAINT LOUIS, MO USA

Ben Milder is the author of more than one thousand poems of light verse, written over the past forty-five years. In 1979, his book The Fine Art of Prescribing Glasses Without Making a Spectacle of Yourself won the American Medical Writers Association's Best New Book of the Year Award (sometimes called the "Pulitzer Prize for medical texts"). He has published seven books of poetry—including FROM ADOLESCENCE TO SENESCENCE (Time Being Books, 2011) and WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT THE GOLDEN YEARS (Time Being Books, 2008)—and his light verse has been published in many magazines and journals. Professor Emeritus of Clinical Ophthalmology at Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Milder resides in St. Louis, with his wife, Jeanne.