false<![CDATA[Mom's Canoe]]>62963691"Mom's Canoe" is a chapbook of 24 poems rooted in the author's memories of growing up in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania, an area of rich farmland and thickly wooded hills and valleys that was also the site of heavy coal mining and rail-roading activity in the last century. The eventual decline of those industries and the environmental and economic devastation left in their wake are important themes in this book, which also pays tribute to the enduring natural beauty of the region and to the strength, suffering, and joy of the people who have made their lives there.64807912822009Mom's Canoetotal:5|5:3|4:1|3:1|5228400falsefalseSun Mar 29 05:23:02 -0700 2009Sun Mar 29 05:23:02 -0700 2009
your...roots.../escape the small-minded tyranny
of your small-minded Midwestern
coalmining town./But when you've left it behind you
may find it still there, in your dreams
your syntax, the smell of your hair..."...more...]]>
50falsefalseSun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Wed Mar 25 13:29:10 -0700 2009Wed Mar 25 13:30:08 -0700 2009 Reading Rebecca Foust's MOM'S CANOE, her latest collection of inordinately fine poetry, is much like time travel - so vivid are her recollections of childhood, places, smells, particular events, and significant moments that have been dusted off from their musty history a...more...]]>
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