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A Hundred-Year Wind: Reflective Poems

A Hundred-Year Wind: Reflective Poems

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1634138147
ISBN13: 9781634138147
Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The sharp bite of nostalgia, the wars we fight against others and against ourselves, and the gentle heartbreaks and joys that sneak up on us with each passing year: these are the ingredients of life, and the heart of A Hundred-Year Wind.

In these pages we encounter Donald, who experiences a fresh slap of isolation when he returns to school after the loss of his family: By association, / Fate of an ordinary day, / Might go horribly wrong again. And Elva Lea, who Recalled the long journey / That began in a tiny bungalow scarcely a hundred miles away, / A place where eight people tried to reconstitute a family / And failed. We meet children who turn branches of oak trees into ships on waves of wind, and grandchildren who become an image on a computer screen talking to a camera.

With profound observations of the turmoil that marks each new generation, these poems become our own, and serve as a reminder of the strength of those who came before us, and of the resilience found in us all.

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