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Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw
by Tom Delmore – copyright 2011
ISBN 978-1-4507-8773-4
$14
Reviews for Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw
by Alice Persons
These are poems inspired by the iconic Dorothea Lange photographs of 1930s Dust Bowl families. They are as immediate as hunger or thirst, sad, joyful and have the enduring rhythms of folk songs.
by Joe Chitty
I could feel the grit of these poems as surely as if I had chewed on a biscuit that had fallen on the ground. The images were like bits of sand and dirt being ground between my teeth but I had to chew nonetheless because it is all there is to eat.
Sample from Tell them that you saw me but you didn't see me saw
Angelus in the Yam Field
We said we would do
Everything together--
Our observant vow.
I could not give birth
You could never toss
A hay bale. But sweet
Potatoes: that hard red
Root. That loam treat.
We do this harvesting
Like spooning.
There are men who pass by
Wanting work. This is ours,
Elvira, we planted these taters!
I know your secret. See, sweetie
We do have them, it's OK
How you put those red tubers
Between the pickets of the fence
At first light; from first frost
To last snow. Those men
Will not roost but they will feed.
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