Grass Songs

by Ann Turner and Ann Warren Turner

Book Overview

A collection of seventeen poems describing the experience of traveling West during the 1800s, as seen through the eyes of pioneer women. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156364778
• ISBN13: 9780156364775
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Since I was 16, I have appreciated this book

This is a wonderful book of poems written by women while on their trecks westward. None of the authors are poets by profession, and many seem to have very little formal education, but they are beautifully real and powerful. One of my favorite lines is "...I reached so high my dress tore, and no one can say I am not a lady" You can almost hear the twang in her voice. These are the thoughts of pioneer women after a long day of travel, men fed, cattle put to pasture, babies asleep, dust settling. These are the thoughts that they had while alone and peaceful, perhaps under a tree with moonlight overhead and crickets chirping. I found this compilation in a small used book store when I was 16, and I have carried it around the world with me as a favorite item ever since.