Talking Back

By Candy Green Gustavson

This collection of poetry, Talking Back, is a long distance dialogue between a quiet and contemplative mother, whose life began in 1920 and ended in 2001, and her Baby Boomer daughter. These intimate poems reflect the years of the Great Depression and World War II taking the reader on a divided family's journey to the boundaries of the United States, including Hawaii, and beyond to New Zealand, and back again. Poet and part-time reference librarian and docent at the Library of Congress, Raymond Maxwell, says "reading Candy Green Gustavson's poetry collection, Talking Back, I am reminded of conversations between my sister and my mother, of conversations between my mother and her sisters, and of conversations I could only imagine between my mother and her mother. The record of a generation passing its richness to another is like a birthright, an inheritance, a valuable thing, and Candy has artfully captured that noble transference in the conversational memoir that forms the backbone of her poetry collection. These poems are both tribute to her mother and a tribute to a bygone era and way of life, moving across the country, describing her growing up and her mother's growing old, a slice of Americana in poetry."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536940259
• ISBN13: 9781536940251
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"