Dovetailed Corners
Subtitle: Prose Poems
Contributors: Marlene Wisuri (Photographer); J. C. Hendricks (Photographer)
Publisher: Holy Cow Press
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780930100698
Subjects: Poetry; Minnesota - Local History; Special Subjects In Literature; Antiques & Collectibles; Antiques/Collectibles; Photo Essays; American - General; Anthologies (multiple authors); Antiques & Collectibles / Americana; Americana
First sentence: MY GRANDPARENTS AND THEIR FRIENDS were immigrants who kept many of their Finnish traditions alive in America.
Description: This extraordinary collaborative work of some 50 prose poems and photographs faithfully depicts the hardfought struggle for survival on the northern American frontier. Jim Johnson's prose poems give a narrative account of Martha and Sulo, two Finnish immigrants fated to endure the unsparing landscape and climate of their Minnesota settlement. Marlene Wisuri incorporates images made from the glass plate negatives of her grandfather, Jesse C.

Hendricks, along with her own stunning contemporary photographs to document life in the New World.