He is also a consultant to Discovery Education Assessment. Smith, Ph.D., is owner of TESTPREP EXPERTS ( ) which prepares students for standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT. “Only poetry…can help us to answer such questions,” Brooks and Warren noted, “and help us, thus, to an understanding of ourselves and of our own values.” This collection fulfills all of Brooks and Warren’s criteria for great poetry. The poems in This Shaky Earth passionately evoke the feelings of time and memory that define our existence, seeking answers to the questions of what it feels like to be alive. Only to have this dream turn into a nightmare (“My oldest daughter, who rarely sheds a tear, pierces the petrified air”). Their yellow eyes and curl their awful claws. Where monsters roar their terrible roar and roll I rattle the pages I read to my granddaughter, In “Where the Wild Dreams Are,” the author inhabits the imaginary world of her granddaughter’s books, To be shocked from time to time on the side She had just left her aunt in Georgia who was coping with a husband with MS and her own health problems.īe still, my heart, we called, both needing In “This Shaky Earth,” the author is stranded on the side of the interstate with a flat tire, screaming for help from the thoughtless traffic (“I’ve run out of verbs on the shoulder of I-75”). Miles to goīefore he sleeps, nothing about me says daughter. In “Yes, Yes,” the author visits her father in an assisted living facility: Parents also bear the burden of caring for their aging parents whose memories can be ravaged by time. This offering forged of past and present, raise My own stiff-necked resistance, she might take The pew, the font, the hymnal-to Mount OlivetĪnd the multiplied loaves, had I swallowed Had I led my daughter to the well more often. In “Jesus Bread,” her daughter “refuses the Easter bun” leading the author to speculate on what she could have done differently. Parents often struggle with thoughts of how they could have raised their children differently. Sometimes I sink into its rag batting, dwarfedīy cuffs and waist. In “On Russell,” the poet revisits her grandmother’s house through presence and memory: “Rooms that spoke my first language–…Rooms calling me once more before I abandon this shell of earth…” In “My Grandmother’s Housecoat,” the poet reflects on this keepsake in the closet (“Housecoat, she would say, not robe) occasionally slipping it on: This Shaky Earth takes the reader on a powerful emotional journey from memories of childhood to reflections of being a grandmother through poems whose feelings pulse from every page. “What does it ‘feel like,’ for instance, to be in love, to hate somebody, to be conscience stricken, to watch a sunset or stand by a death-bed, to be willing to die for a cause or live in a passionate devotion to some chosen ideal?” Linda Parsons Marion, in This Shaky Earth, takes the reader on a powerful emotional journey from memories of childhood to reflections of being a grandmother through poems whose feelings pulse from every page. “Poetry enables us to know what it ‘feels like’ to be alive in the world,” wrote Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren in Understanding Poetry. *Delivery fees vary by market residential deliveries are temporarily unavailable in Nashville and Knoxville.Book by Ramon DeGennaro, Reviewed by Michael K. We sell organic mulch, compost, soil and other eco-friendly gardening and landscape supplies direct to consumer to help our customers lead greener lifestyles at an affordable price. Minimum orders are required for delivery but, with landscaping, more is better!Īt Living Earth®, organic is a way of life. You can even pick your preferred delivery date at checkout. Shop on our website, indicate pick up from one of our Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville or Knoxville locations or select delivery. We offer delivery* to homes and job sites. The company currently operates approximately 30. Stop by any Living Earth location to shop. The industry leader in green material recycling, Living Earth is a manufacturer and retailer of eco-friendly mulch, compost and soil products. We also recycle clean green waste such as brush, grass clippings and other natural products.įrom Texas Hardwood Mulch, Pine Bark Mulch and Premium Colored Black Mulch to Organic Garden Soil, Tree & Shrub Mix and Potting Soil, Living Earth® gardening and landscape supplies are high-quality and earth-friendly. A gardening staple since 1985, Living Earth® is a leading manufacturer of the best organic mulch, compost, soil and high-performance amendments in the industry.
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