Nostalgia's Thread : Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings (Paperback)

from deltadawn

I enjoyed this book of poetry based on Norman Rockwell paintings. The feelings described helped bring the paintings to mind even when I wasn't looking right at them. (Maybe that was the reason the paintings weren't included in the book.) I was able to share a some of the poems with my children bu...

from snash

Anticipating a book of poems inspired by Norman Rockwell prints, I was trying to imagine how the poems were going to avoid sentimentality. He had no problems. In some poems he even directly addressed the low art, sentimental sugar sweet reputation of the Rockwell print. Essentially he used the Ro...

from orangewords

A very moving collection. Friesinger's poems read often like short stories with his characters both nuanced and fleshed out into highly empathetic figures. I felt that the strongest poems of the collection were those dealing with the Vietnam War, ("Freedom of Speech (19430)" and "Christmas Homeco...

from jhhymas

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. A lovely small press book of very competent poetry. Each of the ten poems chooses as its point of departure one of the Rockwell paintings we are all familiar with. The paintings are not reproduced, but the book itself is very attractive in...

from NielsenGW

Randall Freisinger, accomplished poet and writer, takes the reader through ten of Norman Rockwell's most enthralling paintings in a very competent verse. Each vignette takes on a different air of viewing the pieces, from an old lady in a nursing home contemplating the iconic Rosie the Riveter to ...