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As an Oregonian, I loved poems about towns I had been to. With some of the places I am more familiar with, I could feel Sid’s movement through the areas, and loved how he had chosen his driving path because I have driven those paths too. I love local literature because Oregon is not a place many people choose to write about, or at least not as many are published. Sid Miller brings a voice to the overall area that is not often seen, especially in small towns like Hermiston where my mother grew up, or the nontourist towns on the coast, like Reedsport.
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I grew up in Oregon City, Oregon, end of the Oregon Trail. You know, the place where at the end of the computer game the music plays and all your points are added up. Yes, that town. I went all the way through the public school system and every year the field trip involved something related to the historical frontier, or a farm. One year we went to a farm.
This book was different from the traditional rhetoric of the 1800s as taught in class. These poems represent the marginalized voices of the American West from murderers to minorities to slaves. I am tired of the balding white guy perspective and loved the voice of Oregon’s first murderess who had a farm not far from where I grew up. I loved the humanization of real characters from history whose voices had, before now, been brushed off as a secondary to historical cannon.
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Dot-to-Dot, Oregon by Sid Miller
Netanis, October 16, 2009
As an Oregonian, I loved poems about towns I had been to. With some of the places I am more familiar with, I could feel Sid’s movement through the areas, and loved how he had chosen his driving path because I have driven those paths too. I love local literature because Oregon is not a place many people choose to write about, or at least not as many are published. Sid Miller brings a voice to the overall area that is not often seen, especially in small towns like Hermiston where my mother grew up, or the nontourist towns on the coast, like Reedsport.(3 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
Killing George Washington: The American West in Five Voices by Anne Jennings Paris
Netanis, October 16, 2009
I grew up in Oregon City, Oregon, end of the Oregon Trail. You know, the place where at the end of the computer game the music plays and all your points are added up. Yes, that town. I went all the way through the public school system and every year the field trip involved something related to the historical frontier, or a farm. One year we went to a farm.This book was different from the traditional rhetoric of the 1800s as taught in class. These poems represent the marginalized voices of the American West from murderers to minorities to slaves. I am tired of the balding white guy perspective and loved the voice of Oregon’s first murderess who had a farm not far from where I grew up. I loved the humanization of real characters from history whose voices had, before now, been brushed off as a secondary to historical cannon.
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