Foxholes- Leonard Kress
Poets have written about family members for too many years to count. They have also written about places to the extent that we think some places are more poetic than others.
In this poetry book, Leonard Kress finds poetry not only in family but also in suburban Philadelphia, the Fishtown, Harrowgate, and Center City sections of Philadelphia, Lithuania, and along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Non-family members appear: neighbors, a future serial killer (unnamed but known to those who lived near him), students he taught in Ohio, classmates, former girlfriends, and musical icons from the 1960s.
Using various styles, Kress presents a winsome picture of people and settings from his life. A reflective tone permeates these verses, and the reader enjoys time spent with this delightful book of poetry.
Arthur Turfa, Saluda Reflections, Finishing Line Press, Epiphanies, Alien Buddha Press.
I will add a little more here. Leonard graduated between my brother Alex and me from Plymouth-Whitemarch HS in Plymouth Meeting, PA. His family lived about 1.5 miles from mine. His sister, Ellie, worked on the school newspaper as I did and graduated a year ahead of me.
Leonard and I lived or went to many of the same places and wrote about them. I will post links to his books and also mine.
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