Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
American Country Poetry: From the Prairie to the Parlor

American Country Poetry: From the Prairie to the Parlor

Peterson, Roy E.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1977579604
ISBN13: 9781977579607
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 28 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
American Country Poetry is the quintessential 100-poem historical depiction and romantic fantasies of American farm life in the mid-20th Century. Background poems tell stories of the early pioneer settlers. Farm and country life at the time was centered around the nuclear family and relatives, powerful work ethic, instilling American patriotic and Christian loving values in the children, and paying attention to rectitude in moral dilemmas. The author lived until the age of thirteen in South Dakota and considers himself fortunate for the experience and strength given him by the hard farm life on the rolling prairie. Sections of the book include: Down on the Farm, Nostalgic Americana, Country Life and Love, Horse Sense, Common Sense, Country Songs, Horse Play, Politics, Christian and Patriotic, and Things That Matter. Adults and children alike will enjoy the humor of poems like Bossy Cow, My Outhouse Memories, Ode to Toilet Paper, and The Day I Met a Skunk. Nostalgic poems include, The Pickle Barrel, My Patchwork Quilt, and Out Past the Haystacks. Historians will love The Battle of Bonesteel and the story of my Grandfather proving up a claim near the Black Hills. Advice in the poems is pervasive, but particularly trenchant in the ones about Advice from a Farm Boy, Sharing Secrets, and The Art of Persuasion. Discover Farm and Country Love in poems like First Kiss, I am Thankful for an Angel, Lover's Shock, Once Upon a Summer Dream, and If You Ever Fall in Love. Personal Farm Memories include A Farmer's Spring, Autumn Came So Suddenly, Down on the Farm, Fifties Country Living, My Old Farm, and I Lived in Pleasant Valley. Contemporary Poems include Ribbon World, Truth is not Hate, and Grappling with the Gropers Questions. Memories of the Disappearing Past include The Art of the Chivaree, Till the Vespers Bells Stop Ringing, Horseplay includes 'Autograph Albums for Seniors,Friday the 13th, Funny Things Happen on Friday the 13th, I Love to Watch the Monkeys, I Thought I Liked Dogs, The Pumpkin and the Turkey, The Throne Room with a View, and While I Was Grilling Hamburgers. Sensitive Stories include Lilacs and Roses, Things That Excite Me, In My Memory Boxes, and Grandmas. Political Parodies and Perspectives include Dreamers, Dreamers Everywhere, American Dream Where Did You Go? The Criminal Conspiracy of the Clinton Crime Family, and How to Defeat Communism and Terrorism. Christian and Patriotic poems include Christmas Comes but Once a Year, Evening Prayer, God is the Inconvenient Truth, I Will Stand for My Flag and Kneel for the Cross, My 2017 Christmas Thoughts, My Thanksgiving Prayer, Veterans Day, We Hold These Truths, Whatever Happened to Paul Revere, and What is a Soul? Of the ten songs present, It's a Blackberry Picking Morning, is the most loved by the few for whom the author sang.

Also in

General Poetry

View All