ASIN: B00JL42RHK
Publisher: John S. Howard
Pages: 60
Originally published by the Utah State Poetry Society in 1988, the poems in “Sometime Voices” focus on people and relationships in small, western towns. “I try to tell stories in poems. I tend to write in the first person. The reader should assume they’re listening to a person speak,” said Sherwin W. Howard in a 1988 newspaper interview with Weber State University’s “The Sign-Post.”Howard was named Utah poet of the year by the Utah State Poetry Society in 1988 for this collection of poems which won the Pearle M. Olsen Book Award. This poet’s voice is filled with “eloquent and emotionally honest glimpses into human experience,” writes the poetry society in the original preface to the book. Howard’s “realistic yet restrained voice expresses sober themes in precise language, illustrates erudite observations with homespun truths, and balances pathos with humor. The reader will want to ...
