About the Book Life's brief trace on the graph of time    Leaps up then dies with age away; Hope and its spangled dreams turn gray,    Ignored or maligned by each insulting day. Spit on and sneered at by arrogant time,    Disillusioned by love and friend, denied The catalyst of god, we age beside    the pitiless alter of science deified. This volume is a good introduction to his poetry; its selections extend back to the days of World War II, treating themes ranging from war, through many facets of love, to the dilemmas of man in the space age ... ... His lyrics display exquisitely chiselled form. In tone and theme they recall Houseman; sad poems about rejected lovers, young men killed in battle, the uncertainty of life. But another voice, an almost boyish exuberance hymning the nativity of love, is distinctively his own.    Excerpts from John Nause's preface to Age of the Astronauts, Ottawa, September, 1971.Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd. and Glenn Clever, 1971 - 2001.

About the Author Glenn Clever
Warren Glenn Clever, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., professor, writer, publisher, (1918-2003), Adjunct Professor University of Ottawa 1986-2003; Canadian Army 1936-1966 (from private to major), active service UK, Italy, NW Europe 1939-45; Lecturer, University of Ottawa 1967-70; Assistant Professor 1970-72; Associate Professor 1972-82, Professor 1982-83; Chair, Department of English 1972-75; President Tecumseh Press Ltd., 1972-2003; Vice-President Borealis Press Ltd. 1971-2003; Director Canadian Writers Foundation 1973; Vice President 1976-98; recipient Ontario and Canadian Council grants; evaluator for SSHRCC; Rep. British University Summer Schools 1977-83; Founder, Scholarships in Canadian Literature, English, University of Ottawa; Past Member, American Society of 18th-Century Studies; Association of Canadian University Teachers of English; Associations of Canadian and Quebec Literature; Member Amercian Association of Canadian Studies; General Editor University of Ottawa Short Stories Series; 1971-83; Co-ordinator Symposium Series 1972-83; Co-editor Journal of Canadian Poetry 1976-85.

Also by the Author Alberta Days: a narrative poem (1974)
Count Down (1974)
O Can (1972)