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Midwestern Memories

出版	Aldrich Press, 2013-12-18
主題	Poetry / American / General
ISBN	06159236829780615923680
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RUDWrQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Nancy Scott takes us to Middle America's core in the middle of the last century and to the core of a child's struggle to transcend isolation fostered by the times and paralleled by a family's impending dissolution. While the setting for these poems is specific to an area and an era, Scott's words ring with universal themes: the darkness of war, parental pressure for children to succeed, indulgence combined with emotional abandonment. Scott describes a world replete with frustration and longing across the generations. With exquisite recall, the poet tells tales with verbal images that delight and educate readers. She surrounds players in these dramas with landmarks and flavors that formed the collage of her young life: rail yards that housed vagrants, Chicken Paprikash that defined a devoted caregiver, repeated summers in the Northwoods, and the ubiquitous Burma Shave messages that dotted the landscape. Midwestern Memories is Everyman's geography.
-Gail Fishman Gerwin, author of Dear Kinfolk, (ChayaCairn Press)
When one thinks of "Midwestern Memories" one might imagine peaceful prairies and reflections on a simpler time. Not the case in this rich and complex collection from Nancy Scott. Although idyllic landscapes are often in the background, the foreground is drenched in the shadow of War where child's play consists of boys tormenting young girls: We'd huddle in damp corners, shut our eyes, / and listen for BBs whizzing by, while / along the rim the bullies whooped and hollered. As these war games rage in the fields, a war far more damning rages in the home. Nancy takes the reader on a sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous journey on a young woman's quest for truth about family, love, and identity.
-Susan Gerardi Bello