TIME WAS, SHE DECLARES [Hardcover]

Adrienne Moore Bond (Author)

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1942 -- On The Home Front
At Staubbach Falls
Blues
Burial
Bush Names Sophocles New S&l Czar
Chatelaine
Chattahoochee
Christmas Basket: 1943
Christmas Day -- 1940
Circling This Fire
The Deer Hunt
Early Warning
Games
Gertrude Jekyll: In The Spring Garden
Hard Times
Harp Song Of The Investment Counselors
Heritabe Tour
Householder
Inheriting The Earth
Long-term Care
Long-term Care
Metastasis
Mine, Says The Wind
No Agamemnon
Nomenclature
On The Fall Line
Pipe Dream
Prism
Renewal
Roadside Stand
Script
Survivors
There Will Be Time For A Few Questions
Time Was, She Declares
Traveling Light
Triolets For A Three-time Loser
Venus
Why The Muse Passes Through But Will Not Stay
Women At Sixty
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 108 pages
• Publisher: Mercer University Press (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865545383
• ISBN-13: 978-0865545380
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,868,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A collection worth getting, July 17, 1999

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This review is from: TIME WAS, SHE DECLARES (Hardcover)

"Time was, she declares" and "hard Times" are two of the best poems to come out of the south in years. The poems in this collection are quite diverse in style and content but all capture "the original of it, the real immediate thing." As Judson Mitcham writes in the preface: "her voices are authentic, her characters convincing, her landscapes vividly realized..."

5.0 out of 5 stars Adrienne Bond's Poetry Will Live, February 28, 2001

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Kathryn S. Byer (Cullowhee, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TIME WAS, SHE DECLARES (Hardcover)

The late Adrienne Bond was a champion of poetry, particularly Southern poetry. Her own poems show why the poetry from her native region continues to be a vital part of our national literary heritage. Bond brings to her own sense of place all the love, passion, and verbal music that she can muster, giving us lyrical passage into the inescapable subjects of memory, time, and mortality. There is no heaviness in these poems, though, no brooding nostalgia; Adrienne Bond has a sense of humor: whether writing about a huge holiday meal (complete with item after delectable item on the table) or a poetry workshop infiltrated by one rebellious Agnes who keeps insisting on bringing roses into the author's poem, she charms us with her eye for the humorous, yet compassionate. detail. Her poems live in my mind, in my ear, on my tongue. What more could one ask of a book of poems?