Eric Chaet

photo by Brenda Chaet

CONTACT

echaet@gbonline.com

1803 County Road ZZ
De Pere, WI 54115
920-532-4798

Eric Chaet
De Pere, Wisconsin

BIO

Eric was raised on the south side of Chicago; worked in factories, warehouses and offices; taught at colleges and on the Navajo Reservation; hitchhiked and stapled posters he silkscreened to utility poles across America. His poems and stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies world-wide over five decades. You'll find many of his poems at: ericchaetpoems.com

PUBLICATIONS

Old Buzzard of No-Man's Land , Coach House Press of Toronto, 1974
How to Change the World Forever, a book of social philosophy, Turnaround Artist Productions,1994 - $10.00
Poems for Uprising Ypsilanti Marlon Gillespie, poetry - $5.00
People I Met Hitchhiking on USA Highways, fiction, philosophy, poetry, Turnaround Artist Productions- $15.00 (also available on Amazon.com)

OTHER POEMS
hcolompress.com/FeaturedPoet.html

BOOKINGS

2009

POEM

MECHANISMS

Valves, siphons, pistons & cylinders;
gear-trains & trip hammers;
cams & cam-shafts
mechanisms of a thousand useful machines

creations of the creation, humanity.

No one knows the inventors' names,
     &, anyway
compared to what has become of them
with refinement after refinement,
     what they made was crude
     yet exquisite
as dandelion, salmon, or Saturn's rings.

     Beyond reverence
I'd learn to manipulate them
     for my own benefit
     & everyone's, except
those who take advantage of others'
weakness, ignorance & desperation
     to expropriate & dominate.

- Eric Chaet

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