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
Homeplace: poems and such

Homeplace: poems and such

Sowards, H. S.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798708584182
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 8 2021
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Homeplace is a mixed-genre collection of poems, essays, and a few things somewhere in between. It mines memory, familial and community personages, and history, while courting fiction to bring to the surface a vision of life in West Virginia during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Of course, it is a personal vision conjured by one man ruminating over his life. He interrogates one family and one community. Yet, even these expanded categories are presented as apprehended by the flailing scribe whose observations provide the routes and byways for this sojourn.If Homeplace has a theme, it is one of homecoming-a prodigal's homecoming. Though the recollections and observations are hemmed in a bit by their personal nature, and they are in no way exhaustively representative of the varieties of Appalachian experience, it is hoped that a diverse audience might find common ground in these run-of-the-mill incitements of memory. Some are happy; some are complicated, but all of them are true to heart-even when stretched just a touch. It would be enough if many readers find themselves considering the peculiarities of their own place-time among the hills and hollers of life-longing to return to that special homeplace known only to them.

Also in

General Poetry

View All