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Indiana Girl - by Jane Mary Curran (Paperback)

Indiana Girl - by  Jane Mary Curran (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Through the matrix of memory, the poet explores her sense of</p><p>home, its inner landscape, shaped by family, time and the geography</p><p>of an Indiana farm. ere is history here. Lineage. Memories of a life</p><p>long abandoned and reclaimed through this collection of poems.</p><p>Whispers of Frost lie buried in her words and Dickey's bold voice as</p><p>well.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Jane Curran's Indiana Girl, a memoir in verse, celebrates a farm</p><p>family and their land. Curran's heart tells the stories of parents</p><p>and grandparents. Her soul describes the world of her youth, </p><p>"derelict cornstalks silvered in frost," "the sun a red rim, a fox's</p><p>full moon shadow etched on old snow." "The North Field"</p><p>demonstrates how deeply the farm occupies Curran's being.</p><p>Anne Waters Green, poet and author of The Season Lengthens</p><p> </p><p>What Curran calls her "inner landscape" welcomes the reader of</p><p>Indiana Girl. This new collection of poems offers both moments and</p><p>threads that ask the reader to pause and enjoy a scene or reflect on</p><p>echoes from surrounding poems. As Curran says, "facts alone can't</p><p>carry the story." The voice of these poems invites us to trust and, in</p><p>that trust, to share the world of her "life's geography." Curran joins</p><p>many other Midwestern writers who seek to define the core of their</p><p>personal peace through a language that allows them to go home.</p><p>A. Carl Bredahl, Emeritus Professor, University of FloridaA.</p><p>Carl Bredahl, Emeritus Professor, University of Florida</p><p> </p><p>Through memory, Curran explores her sense of home, its inner</p><p>landscape, shaped by family, time and the geography of an Indiana</p><p>farm. There is history here. Lineage. Memories of a life long abandoned</p><p>and reclaimed through this collection of poems. Whispers</p><p>of Frost lie buried in her words, and Dickey's bold voice as well.</p><p>Bob Mustin, novelist, poet, editor, publisher</p><p>Jane Curran's crisp, understated portraits of people and place</p><p>explore Wolfe's familiar maxim --"You can't go home again."</p><p>But how often by circumstance we are forced to try. After her</p><p>father's death and her mother's oncoming dementia, Curran seeks</p><p>a re-connection to homeplace, but as her moving poems in Indiana</p><p>Girl show, it is a yearning that mere nostalgia can't satisfy.</p><p>Settling in with her familial and literary namesakes, Curran shares</p><p>scenes of intimate reflection and nearly-forgotten tragedy, rendered</p><p>with inventive precision: "starlight, sharp as a butcher's</p><p>blade, cuts clean edges of shadow and ice." While these fine poems</p><p>acknowledge the inevitable changes in interior and exterior</p><p>landscapes -- "I know stories of wandering without an arrival"--</p><p>Curran appreciates that "life, known and settled, would go on."</p><p>Kenneth Chamlee, Professor Emeritus of English, Brevard</p><p>College, author of Absolute Faith and Logic of the Lost</p><p> </p><p>With finely tuned sensitivity to language and the feelings of</p><p>the people she writes about, Curran conveys love for her Indiana</p><p>home along with other realms of human experience.</p><p>Richard Graham Professor Emeritus, Franklin College of</p><p>Indiana.</p><p> </p><p>Indiana Girl is a love song to goodness and the ground from</p><p>which Curran sprang. The book offers a haunting remembrance</p><p>of home - a place and a past where readers can hear</p><p>and smell corn, stroll past Angus cows, recall the horrors of</p><p>World War II and Vietnam. Filled with vivid detail and epic</p><p>in scope, the poems honor one's place on the planet until, </p><p>as the poet writes, "the hawk and the land and I were one."</p><p>Especially vivid are the "Histories," snapshots of people with</p><p>whom Curran grew up. The collection's lyrical language, sweep of</p><p>time, and tussle with loss make Indiana Girl rich and unforgettable.</p><p>Karen Luke Jackson, Ed.D., writer, spiritual companion, and</p><p>Courage & Renewal(R) retreat leader</p><br>

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