Chasing the Past and Other Poems

By: Norma Sadler

Narrated by: Dianne Erdmann

Chasing the Past and Other Poems is a collection of poems that reveals the unexpected within a frame from the early 1900s to the present. From Youngstown, California, Wisconsin, and Idaho, the poetry gives the listener glimpses of the past—immigration, growing up, city life, rural life, travel, war, and growing old.

©2019 Norma Sadler (P)2022 Norma Sadler

If you're looking for Excellent Poetry, this is it

Norma Sadler's Chasing the Past and other Poems excellent. Each poem is complete in and of itself. Yet together they form a
treasure trove of life experience. Divided into three sections we are treated to marvelous vignettes, full of descriptive, sensual imagery. When she speaks of her immigrant families journey from Italy and arrival to the U.S. you can almost smell the red sauce and pasta in her grandma's kitchen. We progress further west with her family to Youngstown, OH and get a taste of the Roaring 20's of that era. As we continue further West to Milwaukee, Wisconsin we find the child becoming a woman with all of the changes such a journey invokes. The dialogue is crisp and straight-forward a she encounters more grown up situations. She also reveals her poetic influences including Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Richard Hugo and Charles Wright. Whether her focus alights on the beauty of nature, the joy of travel, the folly and horror of war, or anthropological or historic eras of man, or Buddhism she puts us in the moment as does her freeform and haiku poetry. A gift to the reader, enjoy!