Barry Bauska

Benchmarks Barry Bauska

Combining a surveyor's discipline with a poet's eye for detail and nuance, Bauska uses this collection of his writings to map the contours of his life. Through a mixture of essays, poetry and short stories, he traces a journey through time, geography and experience-from moving more than forty times in his childhood though a long career in college teaching. His focus is on those moments Benchmarks that most shaped and altered the trajectory of his journey. The result is a literary memoir that reminds us all of the value of paying attention to-and recording-the moments that matter in our lives.