| Long Reach Home |
| Dianne Hicks Morrow |
The 50-some poems in Dianne Hicks Morrow's first book of
poetry, Long Reach Home, extend back into memory and
forward into wish, and find homes for each in the language of
poetry.
Reaching back through a family full of stories and characters,
from Newfoundland on her mother's side to New Brunswick
on her father's, they flow to childhood spent on Long Reach,
along New Brunswick's magnificent St. John River, into
adulthood with family and friends in an old renovated farm
house on Prince Edward Island.
The lasting effects of a brush with polio are vividly portrayed
in her award-winning sequence "Polio Kick." Childhood with
a mother who won't give up swimming, even though she's
blind; adulthood a balancing act between family and the world
outside . . . Morrow's poems are characteristically personal,
warm, and accessible - by turns humorous, by turns enraged -
but always engaged with the world, distilling simple pleasures
and fundamental human struggles from everyday experience.
Like the strong beams of an old-fashioned house renovated to
accommodate the bustle and love and frustration of a modern
woman, the poems portray the family and familiars that make
her house a home.
poetry, Long Reach Home, extend back into memory and
forward into wish, and find homes for each in the language of
poetry.
Reaching back through a family full of stories and characters,
from Newfoundland on her mother's side to New Brunswick
on her father's, they flow to childhood spent on Long Reach,
along New Brunswick's magnificent St. John River, into
adulthood with family and friends in an old renovated farm
house on Prince Edward Island.
The lasting effects of a brush with polio are vividly portrayed
in her award-winning sequence "Polio Kick." Childhood with
a mother who won't give up swimming, even though she's
blind; adulthood a balancing act between family and the world
outside . . . Morrow's poems are characteristically personal,
warm, and accessible - by turns humorous, by turns enraged -
but always engaged with the world, distilling simple pleasures
and fundamental human struggles from everyday experience.
Like the strong beams of an old-fashioned house renovated to
accommodate the bustle and love and frustration of a modern
woman, the poems portray the family and familiars that make
her house a home.
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| "Like a mirrored globe, Dianne Hicks Morrow's book of poetry refracts and reflects a lifetime of experiences - the glint of pain in overheard conversations, the lifelong search for balance and trust, a poignant sense of childhood difference, the absolution that children and parents withhold from each other. Especially fine is the 'Polio Kick' series, which concludes with yet another 'sparkling gem of memory'." - author Maureen Hynes "Exploring the literal and metaphoric landscapes of the past, the vagaries of family, and the knocks of time and fate, Dianne Morrow writes with a delicate, hands-off touch, trusting the images and anecdotes to work their own effect; ironies emerge naturally, and not infrequently, with epigrammatic bite. Her sharp eye never strays from the pangs and follies of life, but her warm voice and abundant generosity allow her to negotiate their challenges while cultivating the best in human nature." - author Brent MacLaine |
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