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It?s not easy to write narrative and lyric poems that are individually strong and also coalesce into something more than themselves--a "third body" as Robert Bly has argued. But Sandee Gertz Umbach has done such with her heart-intelligent poetry in The Pattern Maker's Daughter. Umbach employs a woman speaker who unsentimentally looks at (through the particular lens of epilepsy) the people and neighborhoods in the hardscrabble mill town of Johnstown, PA. Most importantly, Umbach's poems reveal how the geographic and geological landscapes have put this town in a precarious position, isolated and prone to many disastrous floods. By the book?s end, we truly care about the plights of the families in Johnstown, the ones that have been able to endure the unpredictable power of nature and those who, sadly, were swept away by that power.
Her poems remind me of that Robert Frank?s classic, haunting photograph of gauzy curtains blowing in a window that overlooks a grimy mining town, a town like Johnstown, where beauty blends with boredom, and desire is wedded to entrapment.
-Thom Ward
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Strong poems by an author who reflects Western Pennsylvania...it's place and people, including family.
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The Pattern Makers
Johnstown, I want to be your Eugene Smith,
shoot Graflex still shots
of men?s hardened hands, blue veins around steel.
I want to capture pattern makers from the 1950?s
when they sized molds in shirts and ties,
figuring their algebraic sums in Moxham's Bar & Wire,
pencil in ear, like my father and his father lifting
their prints to the shop light, exacting
measurements of what steel will cast and harden.
Not everyone can be a pattern maker,
old men on porches tell me.
You have to see things no one else sees....
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