New collection of poems from UWP Faculty member Barbara Presnell, "Blue Star".
Blue Star is a story of war and its effect on family. The poems weave history, census and military records, letters, journals, and other documents to tell the 100-year story of a one Southern family. The title, refers to the stars family members hang from banners in their windows when a son or daughter is in service (now noted in our Blue Star Memorial highways and elsewhere). Interspersed with poems of war are accounts of a mother and her son as he grows from a child into a young man starting a family of his own.