Pax-salon Mailing List: Conversational Salon

[patty (pattypax]

Hi,  last night was a wonderful salon with author, Elaine Wagner.  Next 
Tuesday, June 19, we have another wonderful one scheduled.   
Local poet, Ethna McKiernan,  will be with us to read from her new book,  "A 
Sky Filled With Fireflies."

I have included a little about her below.   Go to the web site and see more.

Also, I have included the next book for The Little Book of the Odd Month Club 
below.  Since there were several ST Paul Public Library people at last night's 
salon,  I was given several names of books and we choose this one.  It is a 
book by Maud Hart Lovelace --- Early Candlelight.   I was assured all would 
love it.  

Thanks,

Patty


McKiernan’s personal familiarity with her subject comes to the fore, allowing 
her to give tiny details which add punch to the whole. ‘Tuesday at the Outreach 
Office’ deals with Spanish/American communication difficulties ending with the 
two sobering lines:

Victor lays his head down on the table
and weeps, a language that we both understand.

About this Book

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ethna%20mckiernan&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startribune.com%2Fentertainment%2Fblogs%2F133609793.html&ei=2iTZT-KENPOe6wGo0vGWAw&usg=AFQjCNE6QsL4xJnusKegOCecZHtHP4VHIA


Like a “sky thick with fireflies,” Ethna McKiernan gathers the small 
brightnesses of life to set against the larger dark, in poems both sorrowing 
and quietly redemptive. Open-hearted and fierce in their affections for the 
ordinary, and for those “outside,” the poems bear caring witness for “lives 
invisible, unseen,…beneath the bridge…far below/ the radar of believability,” 
lives that matter in her unadorned, direct speech, her empathetic embrace of 
all she sees.   


  
          
EARLY CANDLELIGHT:

This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and 
romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. 
Maud Hart Lovelace's careful research into the documents of the Minnesota 
Historical Society, combined with her knowledge of the actual setting, enabled 
her to write a story that conveys a sense of time and place both accurate and 
compelling for people of lots of ages.