Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Conversational Salon

[patty (pattypax]

In case you missed this when sent out earlier .   patty

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> From: patty <pattypax [at] earthlink.net>
> Date: June 13, 2012 7:04:01 PM CDT
> To: Salon Listserve <pax-salon [at] justcomm.org>
> Subject: Conversational Salon
> 
> 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.  
> 
>