Here is Americana at its best--the WWII years.
The Poignant Years is historically.
He takes the reader on a heartfelt, personal tour of small-town America, using real people coupled with poetic imagination.
The author, an accomplished rhetoric instructor, lived these Poignant Years and is in early sync with the reader through interesting insights into each poem.
America is doggedly hanging on, awaiting the return of her heroes, knowing there will be parades for some and processions for others.
Here is Americana at its best--the WWII years