{"product_id":"home-place-paperback-2","title":"Home Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Caldwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Caldwell's poems skillfully uncover the treasures of place and the people\u003cbr\u003e who tend it. The poems in \u003cem\u003eHome Place \u003c\/em\u003ereveal a speaker in tune with the land, \u003cbr\u003e and the reader is transported to this place \"where gone things whisper.\" Linda\u003cbr\u003e Caldwell is a poet truly at home with the music of the poetic line and the art of\u003cbr\u003e storytelling. Her collection connects us to generations of wisdom and poignantly\u003cbr\u003e reminds us that ghosts are always with us as we \"live on resurrected ground.\"\u003cbr\u003e Tina Parker, author of \u003cem\u003eMother May I \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAnother Offering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e In \"Flagwoman on a Dangerous Curve,\" Linda Caldwell creates an apt metaphor\u003cbr\u003e for the poet of this collection, \"caught \/between the world of cars and animals\u003cbr\u003e \/and the world where \/ gone things whisper.\" Caldwell is a keen observer\u003cbr\u003e and unsentimental describer of her rural world, who also senses the presence\u003cbr\u003e of \"ghosts\" through objects they touched and remembered scenes overlaid on\u003cbr\u003e present experiences. Her farm has both \"sunlight balancing \/ on spiny cedar\u003cbr\u003e needles\" and a dead calf's bloody skin hung over an orphan's back in hopes of\u003cbr\u003e persuading a cow to nurse it. Several poems are tender and powerful elegies for\u003cbr\u003e the beloved father whose \"desertion\" assaults her as she opens a gate, placing\u003cbr\u003e fingers \"where yours marked\/the cold dew on steel.\" Honoring her ancestry\u003cbr\u003e and the old people, the first people, she understands that both figuratively and\u003cbr\u003e literally, \"from springs and wells \/ we drink their bones.\" Caldwell's imagery\u003cbr\u003e is sharp and often surprising, from the \"skimmed milk blue\" of kitchen walls to\u003cbr\u003e desires that \"trundle, one after the other \/ like steers lured by the scent of salt.\"\u003cbr\u003e With beautiful language, she draws readers into a world where \"Blue light pastes\u003cbr\u003e thin limbs \/ against the sky\" and \"the past swallows tomorrow.\"\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Wade, author of \u003cem\u003eInside Passage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinda Caldwell is a poet and playwright living on a farm near Paint Lick, Kentucky. She has received two grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has published in many journals and anthologies including \u003cem\u003eCoe Review, Pearl, Prairie Schooner, Tears in the Fence\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), \u003cem\u003eMotif: Writing by Ear, Newgrowth, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWriting Who We Are\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also a volunteer at Friends of Paint Lick, an award winning, grassroots community service organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351484449017,"sku":"9781944899776","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MFdoWjJmOEc3ZUVNMWJjNFZQVWZlZz09_59383fa6-eb6f-4f8c-bdd9-588e8f8803c8.webp?v=1769800389","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/home-place-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}