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    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 Saunter

American Saunter

Hayden, Amanda Michelle

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1963245490
ISBN13: 9781963245493
Publisher: Flowersong Press
Published: Dec 17 2024
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A soaring and vivid travelogue of dusty, dog-eared stories, people, and places exploring the long wide highway stretch of the American landscape and imagination. With great formal range, poems sing to American heroines like Rachel Carson, Julia Butterfly Hill, Zora Neale Hurston, and Loretta Lynn in between readers standing in places of nuanced and emotional power, such as Memphis' Civil Rights Museum, Gettysburg, Salem, Pride Parade, Vietnam Memorial, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's home. From wrestling with the epidemics of mass shootings and violence against women to racism and genocide, this collection does not tiptoe around the contradictions, strife, and injustice within the country. Yet somehow, together, the poems manage to breathe a small, mighty flame of genuine hope, keeping it alight - an astute look into America's natural beauty, spiritual diversity, and steadfast ability to rise from the ashes. From the Grand Canyon's hot red clay bottom of the rushing Colorado River to the pure pinpoint moments of an ending relationship at a midwestern train station, the collection's multi-faceted lenses of distinctly U.S. history, ecology, religions, spirituality, cultures, and the natural world will leave you feeling as if you licked the sweet and prickly layers of a pineapple.

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