Flora Visits Parsonsfield Inside the Blazo-Leavitt House |
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Author:
| Freeman, Mary Wilkins |
Photographer:
| Hanson, Constance |
Series title: | Complete Works of Mary Freeman: Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4922-4514-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $9.13 |
Book Description:
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For her children, Maine formalist poet Mary Freeman describes the interior of her ancestral home , the Blazo-Leavitt house at Blazo Corner, North Parsonsfield Maine (located opposite Parsonsfield Seminary). On the land for eight generations and in the house for six, the family sold the house in 1973 against the tide of rising taxes. This poem, rendered in iambic hexameter, attempts to describe each and every room in the house (in which she lived for thirty years) for the benefit of her...
More DescriptionFor her children, Maine formalist poet Mary Freeman describes the interior of her ancestral home , the Blazo-Leavitt house at Blazo Corner, North Parsonsfield Maine (located opposite Parsonsfield Seminary). On the land for eight generations and in the house for six, the family sold the house in 1973 against the tide of rising taxes. This poem, rendered in iambic hexameter, attempts to describe each and every room in the house (in which she lived for thirty years) for the benefit of her nine children, especially the ones who have no memory of it. The poem's voice is that of the poet at age ten (Mimi), as told to another ghost (Flora), the protagonist of Julia Budenz's epic poem The Gardens of Flora Baum.