Robert Emmons is often described as a renaissance man, multi-talented with a wide range of interests. He has been a New York Stock Exchange company CEO, a well-respected international management consultant, a university professor, and an entrepreneur. In addition, he is an art collector and patron, sailor, avid yachtsman, and a poet for more than forty years. The Los Angeles Times called him “a talented poet” and his book Other Places Other Times
“a gem of a book,” and the praise continues.
In the foreword to The Road to Paradise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet
N. Scott Momaday says Emmons “sees beyond the superficial aspects of experience to the realities at the center of our lives. He is thought, perception, and imagination personified. He is one who understands the possibilities of language…he realizes those possibilities precisely, without overreaching or falling short.”
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