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[New Brunswick, N.J.] Rutgers University Press [1946]
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1946
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142 p.; 21 cm
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| 811 KEL |
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Gloat, gloat. Martha Keller's poetry is used for quite a few filk songs (more than I knew before I flipped through this!), but the poetry itself is really hard to find. Yay for Amazon! I haven't read it yet - just glanced through and read a couple that I know as songs - but I suspect I'm going to
Now I've read it. Wow. Yes, she's very Kiplingesque. A lot of war poems - ranging from Indian fighters to WWII; quite a few love poems, though most of them were about a lost love. Some biographical - Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln. I had a hard time reading as I got into the book, because I kept having to wipe away the tears - very moving images, very strong emotions behind her poems.
So she only published one other collection of poems - need to find that. And the children's book sounds interesting. And there's a college library with her papers and a bunch of unpublished poems...maybe someday. Maybe they'll digitize them! Hmmm, she's sort of addictive, isn't she? I'm going to lend this book to my mother.
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like her as much as I do Kipling. Now if only she had been as prolific...Now I've read it. Wow. Yes, she's very Kiplingesque. A lot of war poems - ranging from Indian fighters to WWII; quite a few love poems, though most of them were about a lost love. Some biographical - Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln. I had a hard time reading as I got into the book, because I kept having to wipe away the tears - very moving images, very strong emotions behind her poems.
So she only published one other collection of poems - need to find that. And the children's book sounds interesting. And there's a college library with her papers and a bunch of unpublished poems...maybe someday. Maybe they'll digitize them! Hmmm, she's sort of addictive, isn't she? I'm going to lend this book to my mother.
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