Transcript - Softcover

Cidell, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999751530 ISBN 13: 9780999751534

Publisher: Purple Turkey Press, 2020

Synopsis

I went from a public high school in excess of 3500 students to a small liberal arts Catholic college of 250, including graduate schools.  As part of freshman orientation I went on a bus tour of Chicago.  I'd lived near the city all my life but I'd only ever seen small parts of it. 

      I remember at one point we stopped to stretch our legs on one of the bridges over the Chicago River.  One moment I was gazing down at the water, the next I was scrambling for pen and paper.  To this day I feel that I didn't write "River Town" so much as I wrote it down.

      Over the next four years I would be fortunate enough to experience similar moments.  I spent the fall semester of my junior year in a study abroad program in the United Kingdom.  Included was a ten day tour of England and Scotland.  I wrote most of the poems from that time during that tour.

      And now I offer them to you the reader.  I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Purple Turkey Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999751530
• ISBN 13: 9780999751534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140