Donald Everett Axinn: 6 books

For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, "the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page." A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world...

A poet and novelist, Donald Everett Axinn is also a major real estate developer in the New York area who personally experienced the dizzying heights and gaping depths of business in the 1980s and survived to tell the tale.

Grounded in nature and the earth, but often soaring to high altitudes (Axinn is a veteran pilot) this new book of poems catches moods, seasons, weather; poses questions large and small about life, the earth, the passage of time and the seasons, about geography and geometry. In this his sixth volume of poems, he hones his language more cleanly and elegantly than ever before.

Happily married with two beautiful children, successful architect and avid amateur aviator Allan Daniels finds his life plummeting into a nightmare when his wife suddenly announces that she wants a separation, maybe a divorce. Then, two days later, as he is piloting a seaplane from Long Island to...

Set against the arresting beauty of the American Southwest, Spinrecounts the story of young Edward Slavin, orphaned at age seven when his parents die tragically in the crash of a small plane his father is piloting. Edward's obsessive quest for a father ultimately leads to self-discovery and the realization...

In a fast-paced, powerful novel of corporate America in the free-wheeling 1980s, a successful construction company executive is swept up in the risky, seductive world of big business and bigger egos.