Wonderful Review of "Places and Times" e:Lectio Publishing

 From John F. Roche: a poet, himself!

I’ve long thought that one of the most interesting literary genres is the poetry of place, poems usually beginning with the concrete and particular but often reaching the universal. In this collection, Arthur Turfa does not disappoint, taking us from the Southwest of “Española Morning” to South Carolina’s “Sunday Morning at Beech Island” to Germany’s “Franconian Sonnets.” As suggested by the title, there are also poems that travel in time, such as “Elegy for a Mill Town” with its closing lines, “A half-century after their / Grandparents sought their own fortunes / In new towns huddled on the hills / Which fall down into the river.” And there are also amusing poems about human foibles, such as “New Dunciad.” A book worth reading!

My poetry books:

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My7 novel:

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