Poetry. "Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet"--Philip Roth.
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This is the best book of poems Freya Manfred has written. She has always been brave, but these poems are more feisty and touching. -- Robert Bly --Robert Bly
Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet. -- Philip Roth --Philip Roth
Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet. -- Philip Roth --Philip Roth
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Freya Manfred lives with her husband, screenwriter Thomas Pope, and her twin sons, on Bass Lake near Hudson, Wisconsin. Her literary memoir, Fredrick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999) was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award and an Iowa Historical Society Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award. She has just finished a novel called Tall.
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"Poems written by a spirit on a stone",
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So begins the first poem in this exquisite little book. If you're not familiar with Freya Manfred's poetry, this book is an excellent place to begin. If you are familiar with her poetry, add this to your collection. Reading it is a deep and rich experience. She is close to nature, to people and to self. Read the poems out loud. Take them with you. Sneak looks when you're supposed to be listening to a professor or a friend. Sit in a park, sniff the air, watch birds. "I was married here by Eagle Rock," she says in "Blue Mound, Luverne, Minnesota", the last poem in the book; "Before that I ran away to write poems." I understand that well. Seated at my desk in Sapporo, Japan, I smell the fragrant air as it blows across Blue Mound and recall the times when I stood by Eagle Rock and dreamed."Swimming With a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle" is a treasure.
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This review is from: Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle (Paperback)
I paid $15 for the paperback and wish I had not. The title allured me but the content was depressing. Of all the poems, the Five Oak Trees was the best. The author loves nature and that is good but she does not like marriage. Ugh! You can do without this book!!
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