LVA Book Talk Series - Virginia in Verse: Michelle Boisseau, John Casteen

September 29, 2009. Michelle Boisseau, author of A Sunday in God-Years, and John Casteen, author of Free Union: Poems, discuss their books of poetry. A Sunday in God-Years is centered on the long poem "A Reckoning," made up of 15 shorter poems/sections (some sections are documents like wills and runaway slave notices). The poems in Free Union revolve around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships. Casteen, for ten years a designer and builder of custom furniture, covers subjects ranging from the farm to the shop floor, from the rivers of the Piedmont to the wooded shoulders of the Blue Ridge, and from the hyper-attentiveness of childhood through the anxieties and joys of fatherhood

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• Library of Virginia
• poetry
• Michelle Boisseau
• John Casteen
• book talk