Seasoned / David R. Solheim.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Fargo, North Dakota : North Dakota State University Press, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 143 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781946163523
- 194616352X
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Main Library | North Dakota Collection | 811.6 S685 | Not for loan | 33111011230253 | |||||
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Main Library | NonFiction | New | 811.6 S685 | Available | 33111011230261 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It seems that everyday life is dotted with moments that one wants to remember and share. When the circumstances and situations of my life provide me such moments, I try to make notes or a rough draft of a poem as soon as possible. Such events might be coffee with a friend, a walk around a park, a weekend camping trip, cleaning the house, a family celebration, or vacation travel. Sometimes I read, hear, overhear, or glimpse similar events of other people. In those cases, I imagine the cause or result of a situation of which I don't have actual knowledge. After a period of informal meditation (usually days or weeks, but sometimes years) I revise the draft into a poem to share my experience, insight, discovery, or surprise. My lifelong goal as a writer is to have my readers, at least for a moment, perceive something as closely as possible to the way I perceived it. This collection of my recent work features the perceptions of a post-retirement guy paying attention to the current events of his life and times, and often commenting on his discoveries of how he and the world have changed through the seasons of the 70-some years of his existence.
This collection of poetry centers around life reflection. The author, in his old age, reflects back on his life in various ways. His poems are organized into sections, but are not in chronological order, rather they parallel how someone would recall memories. He connects to the landscape of his native state, North Dakota, through the use of its animals, weather, seasons, and other nature imagery. In a heartbreaking reflection of regrets and losing friends as he slowly becomes one of the only ones left, he shows the truth--including the positive aspects--about aging.--Publisher.