Crossings

RR crossings. Making the sign of the cross. Border-hopping from Arkansas to Oklahoma. Crossing from verbal to visual art forms. Making the transition from past to present. Crossing over. This newest verse memoir by Gerry Sloan contains over a hundred poetic, literary and photographic insights, commentaries and reminiscences of life in rural mid-America and reflections on what it means today.

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We’re all formed and molded by our families. We’re not receptive to this thought when we’re young because we’re so busy dealing with all the stuff life throws at us. But as we age, we gain insight and wisdom, eventually nurturing a quiet appreciation for those who, however imperfectly, loved and cared for us.

Of course, some are more skillful than others at divining the significance of the episodes we witness growing up. A father’s pacing before his son’s piano recital or a mother winning a GE steam iron at the local movie theater might be forgotten occurrences from our long-ago childhoods. Not so with Gerry Sloan. His Crossings, a collection of 100-plus short poems, delves deep into the fissures of sepia-tinged memories – his upbringing, his relatives, and most compelling, his relationship with his father.

Sloan is the product of rural Oklahoma and Arkansas, and in these short poems he shares with us his stories of family and place as thoroughly as any novelist.

Crossings is a major literary achievement, and Gerry Sloan is one hell of a writer.

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