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Rescues to Arrests: A Peace Officer's Career Through Verse
Contributor(s): Cleavenger, Mark (Author)

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 ISBN: 1524562548     ISBN-13: 9781524562540
Publisher: Xlibris
OUR PRICE: $18.99  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2016
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- Poetry | American - General
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.89 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Through a magnificent poetic diary of his public service experience, Mark Cleavenger humanitizes the tremendous task he shouldered as both a police officer and lifeguar. Bringing delicately intrinsic subjects into poems, he shares the candiness of atrocities witnessed first-hand, as well as the joy of wonders he modestly writes off as 'doing his job'. This book shares a perspective I would otherwise take for granted.

Sophia Gonzalez de La Cruz, Case Worker, Los Angels County.

This unique collection of a "life in pose," is a piercing look into the sould of a public servant with not only conscious - but heart. Each piece is an amazing journey into the soul of a man. The writings take you through the gambit of human emotions and experience; love found and lost, pain, joy, heroism, insecurity, fear and courage. It is insightfully inspired and personally, it was a glimpse into a world I see every day yet will never touch. By bearing his should in his writings, Mark Cleavenger shares with all, the weight felt when one is truly committed. Not only worth the read, this is a collection to be shared.

Dr. S. Cooke, Professor of Sociology

Contributor Bio(s): Cleavenger, Mark: - In a career spanning thirty-seven years both as a beach lifeguard and police officer, Mark Cleavenger gives us a look at trye accounts of dealing with the public, many times on the worst day of their lives. Majoring in Western philosophy, he kept a personal journal since 1980. He chose to impart his extraordinary career through selected verses that provide the lessons and raw emotions of police work. Mark was an accomplished swimmer and flat water kayak athlete, making it as far as the 1992 Olympic California, where he continues to supervise beaches in Malibu, California.
 
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