Soldier On

Fascinated by what emerges from unlikely sources when absorbed into memory, Gale Marie Thompsons poems delight in what remains: John Wayne, Bewitched, turnip fields, camellias and canned figs, andof coursekitchens. Soldier On uses the light of the kitchen as a starting (and ending) point to explore remembered spaces, which take on new facets and textures in a flood of associations and the minds endless cross-indexing. Inside a world of objects, people, and artifacts, Soldier On constructs the language in which we love and lose love.