Book Title: Reading Homer to the Ducks

Book Description

This is a posthumous collection of poems and a short story written by Rick Steele (1954-2018), author and tech pioneer from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Rick’s conviction that literature could open eyes and affect a world view was the result of personal experience. An avid reader, his interests in Biblical and classical writings shaped his less known self as poet, storyteller, and satirist. In particular, he valued the kinship of form and content, not simply as an armchair scholar but active practitioner. And not only as a writer, but as a person. Integrity and curiosity were his bosom buddies, and Euterpe his lifelong muse.

This collection contains the majority of the poems that Rick wrote in his lifetime (at least the ones that could be found). Of his short stories, only one survived, Lardass. The story is also included here.