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    Collected Poems: Poems for Survivors & Poems Between Eternities
    Collected Poems: Poems for Survivors & Poems Between Eternities
    Collected Poems: Poems for Survivors & Poems Between Eternities
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    Collected Poems: Poems for Survivors & Poems Between Eternities

    By Marjorie Gunthardt

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    Poet Marjorie Gunthardt has always felt strongly about something, whether it be the pain of losing a child to the blessing offered at breakfast. She has channeled these feelings into this two-volume book of high-spirited verse, addressing essential subjects that have given her life meaning. Her work has a universal quality that makes something old into something new, something common into something uncommon. Each poem expresses sentiment without being sentimental.

    The first volume, Poems for Survivors, casts topics in a serious tone, driven by personal losses during Majorie's early years, including experiences during World War II. In this collection, Marjorie also writes about places she has lived: Cape Cod, New York, Paris, and Zurich, all of which she has called "home."

    The second volume, Between Eternities, is characterized more by humor, turns of phrase, and buoyancy. As Marjorie has grown older, her inner voice has grown younger and creatively observant. You'll delight in how Majorie sees reality, aging, family image, and keeping pace with life.

    Both collections spring from Marjorie's pure, creative joy. You'll read and re-read these collections for their literal and figurative depth, often stopping, smiling, and perhaps exclaiming, "How true!"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 12, 2009
    ISBN9780595605323
    Collected Poems: Poems for Survivors & Poems Between Eternities
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    Marjorie Gunthardt

    Marjorie Gunthardt began writing poems at age seven in Boston. She is still writing poems at 86 in Zurich. Her poetry spans seven decades and reflects her reaction to the mood and the events of her time. Using the utensils of humor and insight she cuts reality to the bone.

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      Collected Poems - Marjorie Gunthardt

      Copyright © 2009 by Marjorie Gunthardt

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-0-595-48436-2 (pbk)

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      ISBN: 978-0-595-60532-3 (ebk)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 1/6/09

      Collected Poems

      Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications in which some of these poems have previously appeared: Beacon Review: Walks by the Charles River, Nineteen, The Old Adam; The Boston Herald: Postcard from Lake of Garda; Boston Quarterly: Dawn in New York City, Rebuttal for Mona Lisa; The Christian Science Monitor: Breakfast Table, Cowbells in the Alps, Grandfather, Mexican Child at the Market, Nantucket Island, Nauset Beach, Parallels, Room without a View, Winter Landscape; The Concord Journal: Noises from Jet Air Base, Thoreau’s Lost Woods in Concord; Emersonian: Efficiency, Cycle, Discipline, Looking at Old Snapshots; Players Review: Saturday Night at the Movies

      Cover Photo by David Mees (Nauset Beach, East Orleans, Cape Cod)

      Poems

      For

      Survivors

      FOR

      MY HUSBAND HANS

      MY CHILDREN KEITH AND DOUGLAS

      AND

      IN MEMORY OF CURTIS

      Poems for Survivors

      I

      Places

      HOMESICKNESS

      NANTUCKET ISLAND

      THOREAU’S LOST WOODS IN CONCORD

      PARALLELS

      WINTER LANDSCAPE

      UNDER BOUGHS OF CHESTNUT TREES

      AT THE LOUVRE:

      REBUTTAL FOR MONA LISA

      BENCH SITTERS IN PARC MONCEAU

      HILLS OF MONTMARTRE

      PARIS METRO

      AUTUMN SONG FOR PAUL VERLAINE

      COLORS AND SOUNDS OF KILCHBERG

      BY LAKE OF ZURICH

      MEXICAN CHILD AT THE MARKET

      PERU

      CONTENTMENT

      NAUSET BEACH, CAPE COD

      POSTCARD FROM LAKE GARDA

      LOOKING AT OLD SNAPSHOTS

      II

      Wars, Victims and Survivors

      NOISES FROM JET AIR BASE

      WALKS BY THE CHARLES RIVER

      NINETEEN

      NO BOLTS, NO DOORS

      QUIETLY, WITHOUT RECOGNITION

      PRISONERS OF WAR

      DISCIPLINE

      NIGHT TERRORS

      TO CLOSE THE SPLIT

      HOPE

      SUICIDE

      SOUNDS ONE CAN’T HEAR

      YOUR CLEAR EYES

      COLLISION OF WORLD POWERS

      VETERANS’ CEMETERY

      MEMORIAL DAY

      WIDOW

      LONELINESS

      (MILITARY) CHILDREN WITHOUT FATHERS

      DIPLOMATS PLAYING MUSICAL CHAIRS

      UNDER THE OLIVE BRANCH

      EFFICIENCY OF NUCLEAR WAR

      AGGRESSION

      FREE SOUL

      ARMENIANS

      VIOLENCE

      III

      People

      DAWN IN NEW YORK CITY

      ROMANCE FOR THE EDITORIAL PAGE

      SINCE GILLS IN WATER

      SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

      ROSES FROM A REALISTIC LOVER

      BREAKFAST TABLE

      YOUR KILLING PAST

      REBOUND

      DYING IMAGE

      SEEING RED

      REALITY

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