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Childhood's Secret Hiding Places and Other poems
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ISBN13: 9798335742634
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2024
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2024
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My mother was born Olga Marion Olson in Superior, Wisconsin in 1912 to John and Sophia (Swenson) Olson, Swedish immigrants who settled in Northern Wisconsin around the turn of the twentieth century. There were four brothers and three sisters in the family. Mother and my Aunt Ellen moved to Naperville, Illinois in the mid-1930s to teach grammar school there. Olga later taught English at North Central College. She was an amazing woman, a Champion Masters Swimmer, a painter, and she wrote many short stories and poems. She was a two-time cancer survivor. She was working on a novel up until the time of her death at age 90.
She was and will always be a source of inspiration for me. I learned about writing from her and I learned about the importance of belief in oneself. I came across this collection of her poems while looking through a box of old photographs recently, and decided it was time to present them in book form. She had indicated on the typewritten manuscripts which had been published and I attempted to track down the various journals or magazines to determine copyright status but was largely unsuccessful. I have acknowledged various publications herein but cannot accurately cite them.
Some of the poems are deeply personal, some witty, all of them lyrical. The rhythm and the flow of her metaphor reveal her vast knowledge of literature and poetry. Allusion, alliteration, and onomatopoeia were her forte. She could extract the miraculous from the ordinary. Humor abounds in poems like My Unholy Garden and The X-rated Garden (unbuttoned Bachelor Buttons have no shame...). She addressed grief and loss in poems like Larkspurs and her cancer in Second Anniversary and The Kiss. Her stance concerning women's rights is obvious in poems like The Penalty and On Being Every Woman.
I hear her voice here, her deep emotions. Her voice takes me to realms I never imagined existed, places hidden. I offer these, her life's poetic work, for those readers who value poets and poetry, for those who can find meaning in metaphor and allegory.A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a poem can be worth a thousand pictures..
--Byron Grush
Some of the poems are deeply personal, some witty, all of them lyrical. The rhythm and the flow of her metaphor reveal her vast knowledge of literature and poetry. Allusion, alliteration, and onomatopoeia were her forte. She could extract the miraculous from the ordinary. Humor abounds in poems like My Unholy Garden and The X-rated Garden (unbuttoned Bachelor Buttons have no shame...). She addressed grief and loss in poems like Larkspurs and her cancer in Second Anniversary and The Kiss. Her stance concerning women's rights is obvious in poems like The Penalty and On Being Every Woman.
I hear her voice here, her deep emotions. Her voice takes me to realms I never imagined existed, places hidden. I offer these, her life's poetic work, for those readers who value poets and poetry, for those who can find meaning in metaphor and allegory.A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a poem can be worth a thousand pictures..
--Byron Grush
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