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Written by Sally Buckner
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Monday, 25 February 2008 17:39 |
Collateral Damage Author: Sally Buckner
Publisher: Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
ISBN 1-59948-080-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-59948-080-0
$8
This collection deals with humanity's propensity for war and how it has been exercised from 1944 until the present. The first poem, "June 6" compares a ferry ride to Okracoke with the landing at Omaha Beach. It is followed by a narrative spoken by a Korean War veteran whose sons were in Vietnam, moves through the Gulf War to 9/11, Darfur, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most poems center on the current conflagration in Iraq. Stephen Smith, reviewer for The [Southern Pines] Pilot, writes, "Buckner's powers as a poet have strengthened with age. . . . Her . . . stark images and precise language are, regardless of one's political leanings, reason for contemplation -- and celebration. Collateral Damage marks Buckner as one of the genre's leading practitioners, a poet whose steady, thoughtful inspiration has been tempered by observation and practice." Other comments: This country needs more poets like Sally Buckner, poets strong enough, outraged enough, and skillful enough to confront the issue of war and the horrors it brings to the invaders and the invaded. Buckner's outrage never loses its humanity; she brings the brutality of war back home in a down home sort of way, placing it here among us as we go about our daily lives, driving home from work, walking on the beach, sitting down to an evening meal. We are all engaged in collateral damage, even as we think we remain safe from it. These poems tell us the truth: none of us is exempt from war's degradation.
-- Kathryn Stripling Byer, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, author of Catching Light, and Coming to Rest. Questioning times past and times present, Buckner writes of wars within, wars without. She possesses a parent's grieving eye and a patriot's splintered heart. Her poems probe depths and plead for loving mercies. Her words will not leave you unchanged.
-- Ruth Moose, author of Making the Bed and Rules and Secrets. |
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Written by Esther Cleveland
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:00 |
Ambroise the Huguenot Author: Esther Cleveland
Publisher: iUniverse.com
ISBN 978-0-595-42678-2
$12.95 (pbk)
Available at bookstores and Amazon.com
This is a creative nonfiction account of the author's French ancestor, Ambroise Sicard, born in Mornac, France in 1631. Esther Cleveland imagined what the life of Ambroise and his family might have been like in the years during and after the horrific persecution of Protestants in France. They escape inland and southward by way of a zigzag route, avoiding the Dragoons (military police). In spite of it all, Ambroise pursues an education and falls in love. This journey of adventure and romance ends up across the Atlantic in bustling New York City. Ambroise was the first Sicard to emigrate to America. There, he and his family were involved in creating New Rochelle, a Huguenot community. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 25 February 2008 18:10 |
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Written by Ken Coleman
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:00 |
Memories Vision Author: Ken Coleman
Publisher:
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Release Date: December 31, 2007
www.memoriesvision.com
 The story of Queenie Jones, the most famous, notorious, and controversial black female entertainer of all time encompasses a century of her life, troubles, and lessons learned. Yet it twists as the story is told to a young, Jewish writer and he becomes infatuated, fascinated, and envious of her life’s choices. It’s a love story of a very odd couple.
What begins as her retrospective becomes his inspiration to question his choices, passions, and happiness, yet he doesn’t understand why. What begins as her story becomes his lost soul crossing all his barriers of race, religion, culture, and economics as we all struggle with image, sex, religion, and family, and he wants more. What begins as a project for him to make money becomes her acceptance of his short comings and validation of his passions, what every man yearns for. Memories Vision was inspired by documentary on Ella Fitzgerald. At then end her son praised her accomplishments to which she added, "I wasn’t a very good mother." This story explores the relationships a successful woman has with the men in her life, her children, her public, and herself, as well as the young writer. Memories Vision is not a story only for people of color. It’s the journey of a man who was presented an opportunity to learn from an unlikely source, became engulfed in the over powering words and wisdom of the teacher, that he grew well beyond his world of understanding. In the tradition of Driving Miss Daisy and Tuesdays with Morrie, there’s Memories Vision. |
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