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 Finlandia’sNorth Wind
Books will host a book signing with poet Randall R.
Freisinger Friday,
March 26, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
Freisinger,
professor emeritus of rhetoric, literature, and creative writing at
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, has recently released a book
of
poems titled, “Nostalgia’s Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell
Paintings.”
Accessible and engaging, the poems in Freisinger’s
Nostalgia’s Thread
are provocative reconsiderations of the American
experience as depicted in
ten of Norman Rockwell’s best known
paintings, says the website of Hol Art
Books (holartbooks.com).
Arguably the only serious collection of poems
inspired by Norman
Rockwell’s images, they were conceived just prior to the
attacks of
September 11, 2001, and written in their wake.
The poems remind the
reader that visual art is never static, the beholder’s
eye never
innocent. They bear witness to the fact that each cultural era must
inevitably reinterpret its rich artistic inheritance within the context of
its current
collective experience.
The publication of
Nostalgia’s Thread coincides with the 40th anniversary
of the Norman
Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass., as well as recent
critical
reappraisals of Rockwell’s work as an illustrator and artist.
Nostalgia’s Thread is Freisinger's third collection of poetry. His two
previous chapbooks are Hand Shadows and Running Patterns, which won the
Flume Press Chapbook Award in 1985. His full-length book, Plato’s Breath,
won the May Swenson Poetry Award from Utah State Univ. Press in 1996.
Freisinger’s poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and
anthologies and have been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize.
For information, contact North Wind Books at 906-487-7217.
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