The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems
A collection of poems and prose poems rooted in the Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota. Through recurring symbolic figures—the Giant, the child, and the boy—Caddy transforms the everyday relationship between father and son into something approaching myth. Vivid memories of growing up in a mining town, close observations of nature, and intimate family scenes accumulate into a meditation on what it means to belong to a place.
Work Information
Mining-town memories and natural detail converge in a collection that renders the bond between father and son with mythic depth.
John Caddy's *The Color of Mesabi Bones* (Milkweed Editions, 1989) weaves poems and prose poems from the poet's memories of growing up in a mining town on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. From the opening pages, recurring figures—the Giant, the child, and the boy—elevate the ordinary relationship between father and son into the register of myth. The sounds of mine blasting, a Victory in Japan Day celebration in Eveleth, Minnesota, red maples, and yellow jackets are among the sharply observed images that anchor the collection in a specific place and time. The book received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for 1990.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Published
- 1989-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780915943401
- ISBN-10
- 0915943409
- Price
- 18304 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
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Reviews
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Real
This man has a website called morning-earth.org that has the option of signing up to get 5x a week nature picture (his also) with his poetry about the picture. I'd been getting the e-mails for years but this year he began having a Friday section where he sends out a picture without a poem and people submit poetry to go with it. I asked if my MIddle School Students could participate. He added a student section. He made some of my kids diehard poetry writers!!!! They are begging to do it again next year. He grips a wide range of the population. This book is about his abusive childhood and I have not read it to my students because it is so real. I am not sure that they could handle it because of its reality. I don't read a lot of poetry books but this one is definitely a good slow read - so you can think about the ones that speak to you.