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Published: June 10, 2011
Words: 5,735 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780615500171
Short description
A collection of poems celebrating life, love, and the beauty of Folly Beach, SC; while also exploring the depths of angst and despair that had to be navigated to get there. Features "Advice to New Runners," "Hard-packed Sand," "Driving into Winter," "The Magic Day," and many others.Extended description
Folly Beach Love Story is a poetry collection exploring life, love, and the beauty of Folly Beach, SC.It tells the story of one man's efforts to rebuild his life and find new ways to accept and experience love.
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love, relationships, running, ocean, folly beach, sandAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Janice Decker
on Sep. 13, 2011 :
Paul Mount's "Folly Beach Love Story" is a fully realized cycle of poems and essays that describe his voyage to Folly Beach, SC, and his voyage through a cataclysmic year. He obviously stepped away from everything known into a new world, at the edge of America. During that year, he explored not only the beauty and challenge of his new surroundings but also the beauty and challenge of a new understanding of his emotional life.
Paul's poems are tiny masterworks. Although a great deal of emotion flows, the poems are never "clotted" with show-offy imagery. Every image is earned. Every emotion is earned. The poet's transitions during the year on Folly are described poignantly but with humor and clarity. I saw a clear connection between his acquiring knowledge and love for Folly Beach and for his new appreciation for emotional events, past and current.
Instead of being, "These are the poems I wrote that first year," this collection is "This is how I re-learned how to fall in love." Although site-specific, many of Paul's insights can be transferred to other experiences in the reader's life, clarifying those as well.
I know Paul will continue to refine and hone his writing skills. Thoroughly enjoyed his first book!
(reviewed long after purchase)