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    Songs of Unsung People
    Songs of Unsung People
    Songs of Unsung People
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    Songs of Unsung People

    By Frank Jamison

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    The inhabitants of Frank Jamison's Songs of Unsung People are the people we meet every day on the streets and in the diners, some physically strong and some who get about with the help of walkers. From a preacher on a street corner to a woman on a ferry bound for Sausalito, some engaged in the everyday minutiae of life as store

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVista Publishing
    Release dateJun 15, 2021
    ISBN9781736877005
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      Songs of Unsung People - Frank Jamison

      Dedication

      To the Anam Cara in my life,

      the unsung people

      who everyday do marvelous things,

      and to

      the Orr Mountain Writers

      for their unwavering encouragement.

      Unsung, the noblest deed will die.  - Pindar

      Acknowledgments

      ​ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the journals in which these poems or earlier versions first appeared.

      In Order of Appearance:

      Still: The Journal: Here Then Is a Landscape (the Preface poem)

      Poem: "Cat Man"

      Nimrod Literary Journal: "The View"

      riverSedge Journal: "Journal Entry: New Year's Eve"

      Big Muddy: In an All Night Diner in Tennessee"

      Xanadu: Last Tango

      Paper Street: Woman Backlit and Framed in a Doorway

      Confluence: Film Noir

      Carquinez Poetry Review: Quilt

      Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine: The Couple

      Fox Cry Review: Barn on Tennessee HWY 304

      Muddy River Poetry Review: "Riverside Cemetery, Jackson,

      Tennessee"

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      Blind

      Ecclesiast

      Metaphysician

      Catman

      ​The View

      Man with Tatoos

      Bag Woman

      Her Pen

      Unspoken Words

      Journal Entry: New Year's Eve

      In an All Night Diner in Tennessee

      Woman On a Ferry

      Department Store Clerk

      Last Tango

      Postcard from Nanjing

      Unnoticed as She Passes

      Woman Selling Blankets

      Woman Backlit and Framed in a Doorway

      Film Noir

      The Deepest Shade of Red

      Two Fables

      Black Iron Skillet

      Barn on Tennessee Hwy 304

      The Girl in the Blue Tercel

      Quilt

      The Hay Rake

      Riverside Cemetery, Jackson, TN

      Something the Dead Should Do

      Notes

      About the Author

      Preface

      There is in each of us a fragment of the unsung, the discounted as well as the exalted. The people in these

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