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With An Afterword By The Author These dramatic monologues depict the real life stories of pioneer women and children who were stranded and settled along the trails of the great Western Migration. Together, the voice of the local schoolteacher and those of her students and their parents illustrate the intimate, unspoken goings-on in and around the mythical frontier town of Cottonwood. Accompanied by historical maps and photographs, this series of linked poems was sculpted out of years of archival research.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ten years after her award-winning montage of verse monologues, Oh How Can I Keep on Singing: Voices of Pioneer Women, Harris uses the same form to limn a year in a late-nineteenth-century farming and mining area on the Idaho-Wyoming border. Frances Stanton, the teacher at a one-room school, is the primary speaker and the strongest, most complex, most thoroughly realized character. Most of the other speakers are students and their mothers. Only three men speak: a young miner, an abusive husband whose wife has sought Frances' help to prepare her day in court, and a teenager whose lust for horses leads to tragedy and prison. The mothers testify to hardships past and present; the girls bear witness to youthful freshness of vision but also, with earthy candor, to the bullying of boys. Scattered throughout the book are old photographs of people who lived the life of the poems and their frontier world. Harris' earlier book was successfully dramatized, and this book, too, would make a splendid performance piece. --Ray Olson
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Harris re-creates the great Western migration of the 19th century in monologs that affectingly capture the voices of women and children. With archival photographs. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Crossing Lava Creek | p. 13 |
Lesson Three: Total Eclipse of the Sun | p. 16 |
Sunday Afternoon, A Quarter Past Three to a Quarter Past Four | p. 20 |
Will They Bar Me at the Gate? | p. 21 |
Woman Pausing on the Side of the Road to Tie Her Shoe | p. 24 |
Wrapped in Quilts, Brought Around the Horn, Carried by Wagon to Beyond Boise | p. 26 |
How Sparrows Learn to Spell | p. 29 |
Because Your Backslidings Are Many, Your Transgressions More Than a Few | p. 33 |
Broomshop Regulations | p. 35 |
Lemon Pie | p. 38 |
When Papa Sells the Horses | p. 43 |
Every Time Rory Shaughnessy Goes Underground | p. 47 |
Feeding My New Son with an Eyedropper | p. 50 |
What Trees Know | p. 54 |
Nothing But the Blood | p. 56 |
Sums and Debits | p. 59 |
How Hard I Try | p. 62 |
Comes Now Said Defendant | p. 66 |
Swans | p. 69 |
The Inclement Weather of the Heart | p. 72 |
Borrowed Horses | p. 74 |
That Springtime of Her Life | p. 82 |
Two for a Penny: Counting My Rat-Hunting Money | p. 84 |
I Have Always Believed It is Entirely Possible to Pray While Chopping Wood | p. 87 |
I Drive You from My Heart | p. 90 |
Sixth Grade Composition: Why We Came Here | p. 94 |
Ante-Over the Outside Bissy | p. 97 |
We Never Speak of It | p. 99 |
Afterword | p. 103 |
Credits: Map, Photographs | p. 111 |