In This Hour Sandra Sloss Giedeman 9780989830553 Books
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In this collection of poetry, Sandra Sloss Giedeman writes about growing up in St. Louis and the Midwest, painting word portraits of the steel mill town where she grew up and the people who lived and worked there. Alongside stunning verbal images of the California landscape, particularly southern California where she's lived her whole adult life, she also writes about loss, grief and growing up Catholic in a large family. This collection of 51 beautiful poems will take you on an emotional tour of the country as seen through the eyes of this profound poet.
In This Hour Sandra Sloss Giedeman 9780989830553 Books
In a luminous collection that gives me images to fill a dozen daydreams, one of my favorite describes the poet as a teenaged girl with a laughing boy--all gums and eager--on a St. Louis back street near the Mississippi, listening to Miles Davis play "All of You." The poet allows us to look back in time at a moment when she shared rum and coke with "one of those who peak too early. Collar turned up, hair slicked." In "Reverie," she's an eight-year who discovers dusty slot machines hidden under a blanket in the basement of her Chicago grandmother's house. She keeps her knowledge a secret because she finds it unsavory. That night she stands on a stool to listen to "The Shadow" on the radio: "The Shadow knew about what evil lurks in the hearts of men." From this collection, it's obvious the poet knows that hearts possess goodness as well.Product details
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In This Hour Sandra Sloss Giedeman 9780989830553 Books Reviews
Treat yourself to Geidman's poetry! Her wonderfully descriptive language allows the reader to follow her through place, be it Southern California or the Midwest and through relationships.The journey is well worth it, as Geidman has a keen eye.
In this long-awaited collection of Sandra Sloss Gieman's poetry, the reader will savor poems that are dreamy, evocative, sensual, and wise. From describing the gorgeous sunsets of California, captured in the author's own cover photo, to memories of hotels, family members, and classic cars, Giedman writes with gorgeous tender care. I'm so happy that these precious poems have finally been published so that they may find a wider audience. Highly recommended!
Sandy Giedeman is a poet of place, a keen observer who shows us both Southern California and forlorn Midwestern towns. It didn’t surprise me that I loved the poems of Southern California. I’ve lived here all my life and my love for this land is deep in my blood.
<i>The Santa Ana rolls like a hell wheel across
the mountains…
I heard a man say “California is heartbreaking.
It tries to be Paradise, but it’s not.”</i>
But when Giddeman describes a decaying Midwestern mill town I find myself equally enthralled, homesick for places I have never been, for lives I have never known.
<i>Steel mill with its own language;
blast furnace, hod carrier, slag
millwright,, pig iron, skelp…
What is left behind?
All that is unyielding, unforgiving, hard.</i>
The poems are not all about landscape. Giedeman often uses landscape for a lens to explore family relationships, love and loss, the very texture of life.
<i>I drive a road and dream. I loved you with all my breath.
And now you sleep, brother. The woman said he called from
Barstow and cried. Find you spot and sleep, dream under
relentless stars. You could never sleep; then you slept. I always
get the alls late at night. If I don’t pick up, it hasn’t happened.</i>
Read this book.
<i>…One thing I have learned.
Everything in life is a metaphor for everything else.</i>
Thoughtful, touching poems kissed with nostalgia.
Loved it...a mid-west transplant who moved back to Indiana myself,I could relate.
I love every entry, every poem. The clarity, the imagery is amazing.
As a long time fan of Sandra Giedeman's prose, I am am thrilled to hold this beautiful book in my hands and enchanted to adventure where Giedeman's language takes me. There is an earthy narrative here that escorts the reader through passages in the Ozarks, Mississippi, San Clemente, Zaca Lake. Here is honest prose, here is the sound of truth these are poems you will want to hold in your mouth like hard candy. If for no other reason than lines like this "In October you can change your life."
In a luminous collection that gives me images to fill a dozen daydreams, one of my favorite describes the poet as a teenaged girl with a laughing boy--all gums and eager--on a St. Louis back street near the Mississippi, listening to Miles Davis play "All of You." The poet allows us to look back in time at a moment when she shared rum and coke with "one of those who peak too early. Collar turned up, hair slicked." In "Reverie," she's an eight-year who discovers dusty slot machines hidden under a blanket in the basement of her Chicago grandmother's house. She keeps her knowledge a secret because she finds it unsavory. That night she stands on a stool to listen to "The Shadow" on the radio "The Shadow knew about what evil lurks in the hearts of men." From this collection, it's obvious the poet knows that hearts possess goodness as well.
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