{"product_id":"we-never-speak-of-it-idaho-wyoming-poems-1889-90","title":"We Never Speak of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889-90","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jana Harris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e We Never Speak of It: Idaho-Wyoming Poems, 1889-90\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2003-04\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e From Booklist      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 OlsonCopyright (C) American Library Association. All rights reserved      Product Description      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.      Review      \"The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit--sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.\"      About the Author      Jana Harris's award-winning poetry books include Manhattan as a Second Language and The Dust of Everyday Life, an Epic Poem of the Northwest. Her most recent novel is The Pear of Ruby City. She teaches creative writing at the University of Washington, Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865381094\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.5 Inches, Length: 5.82 Inches, Weight: 1.46827866492 Pounds, Width: 0.44 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jana Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53112090296627,"sku":"9780865381094","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9780865381094.jpg?v=1772757520","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/we-never-speak-of-it-idaho-wyoming-poems-1889-90","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}