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Indlæser... Coalseam: Poems from the Anthracite Regionaf Karen Blomain
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Fourteen poetic voices creatively exploring the Pennsylvania mining experience. Hear them sing of the texture of family life, the confluence of ethnic cultures, the brutality and danger of the mines, and the scars left on the souls and the environment. List to the humor that enables the burdened to survive, and to the myths that protect the dignity of the marginalized. Share transcendent moments as shiny as faceted pieces of anthracite coal, and be renewed by re-experiencing the strength of the human spirit. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54080327981Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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"It could be the rim of the world,
the rocks breathing summer,
the copperheads coiled brilliant
near the huckleberry bushes.”
And this image from "My Mother at Evening" (also by Humes) cannot be improved upon:
“…at the end of his shift
he’d come up from the pit in the gunboat,
face black, lips and tongue pink as her peonies,
and not stopping at the washroom,
walk down to the railroad tracks
and wait for a train to hop.”
When we were in college, my husband and I took a course in folklore; as his final project, my husband collected oral histories from people in his hometown who remembered the mining days. These poems reminded me of that project, which I hadn't thought about for years, and one of the most "poetic" of the works in Coalseam, "Making Soap" by Nancy Deisroth, could have been transcribed verbatim from one of my husband's old interview tapes. It has the perfect speech rhythm of an old woman explaining how she made her own strong soap from lye and bacon fat. Impossible to take a piece of it out as a sample---it needs to be read entire, preferably aloud.
Review written March, 2009 ( )