Earl Silver

About

I have worked as a carpenter and contractor in the Napanee area for over 30 years. My wife, Linda and I live on Spring Hill in Deseronto, Ontario. We have three grown daughters and four grandchildren. I build houses for a living and write poetry for pleasure.

A Shadow in Yucatan

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

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Kingston Whig Standard, Napanee Beaver, Napanee Guide, interviewsandreviews.blogspot.com

🔗 www.thewhig.com (Sat.Mar 21/09), www.napaneebeaver.com (Thur.Feb 12/09), Guide - (Thurs. Mar. 26/09), wwwwww.interviewsandreviews.blogspot.com,

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Earl's poems bring us a peaceful comfort, like a warm blanket near a fireplace or a shawl across your shoulders as you sit with your back to a sunny window. Their familiar messages and phrasings kindle and rekindle a soul-deep warmth, reminding us that we are incredibly fortunate to be able to experience and share God's love. - Barry Brummel

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