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FROM: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 3:23 PM

I've a patron who recently read a book about Shackleton's Endurance that
was written in verse, based on persona poems, and included quotes from
individuals involved.

He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE LAST WAR - which he
said had the same "feel" to it.

He wants more - Any ideas?

I've been poking around various sites with minimal success looking for
non-fiction in verse or using persona poems as a basis, but I ain't got
much to show for it: NIXON AND I by Karen Kovacik; WHAT PLACE IS THIS
by Rosalind MacPhee; VOICES OF 1918 by Ellen Bryant Voigt; maybe
AMERICA, A HISTORY IN VERSE by Edward Sanders (2 vols); GAULEY MOUNTAIN:
A HISTORY IN VERSE by Louise McNeill.

Thanks bunches!!!!!!!!

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: Roger Carswell <[removed]@alltel.net>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 3:33 PM

Perhaps "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet?

At 12:19 PM 3/4/02 -0900, you wrote:
>
>
>I've a patron who recently read a book about Shackleton's Endurance that
>was written in verse, based on persona poems, and included quotes from
>individuals involved.
>
>He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE LAST WAR - which he
>said had the same "feel" to it.
>
>He wants more - Any ideas?
>
>I've been poking around various sites with minimal success looking for
>non-fiction in verse or using persona poems as a basis, but I ain't got
>much to show for it: NIXON AND I by Karen Kovacik; WHAT PLACE IS THIS
>by Rosalind MacPhee; VOICES OF 1918 by Ellen Bryant Voigt; maybe
>AMERICA, A HISTORY IN VERSE by Edward Sanders (2 vols); GAULEY MOUNTAIN:
>A HISTORY IN VERSE by Louise McNeill.
>
>Thanks bunches!!!!!!!!
>
>Georgine Olson
>
>Outreach Services Manager
>Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
>1215 Cowles Street
>Fairbanks AK 99701
>
>ph: 907-459-1020
>fax: 907-459-1024
>
>
>
>
>......................................................................
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Southeast Kansas Library System/Iola Public Library
218 E. Madison
Iola, KS 66749
(620) 365-5136
[removed]@alltel.net

FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 4:16 PM

Georgine,
The Folding Cliffs by W.S. Merwin, Knopf, 1998, is a poetic
narrative of the initial European discovery of Hawaii from the point of view
of the Hawaiians. It's more historical fiction though than nonfiction.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Georgine Olson [[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:19 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Non-Fiction in Verse


I've a patron who recently read a book about Shackleton's Endurance that
was written in verse, based on persona poems, and included quotes from
individuals involved.

He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE LAST WAR - which he
said had the same "feel" to it.

He wants more - Any ideas?

I've been poking around various sites with minimal success looking for
non-fiction in verse or using persona poems as a basis, but I ain't got
much to show for it: NIXON AND I by Karen Kovacik; WHAT PLACE IS THIS
by Rosalind MacPhee; VOICES OF 1918 by Ellen Bryant Voigt; maybe
AMERICA, A HISTORY IN VERSE by Edward Sanders (2 vols); GAULEY MOUNTAIN:
A HISTORY IN VERSE by Louise McNeill.

Thanks bunches!!!!!!!!

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 6:24 PM

Georgine,
Thought of another one. John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Originally published in 1928, it's a book-length epic about the Civil War.
It's primary characters are fictional, but there are great swaths of
narrative verse dealing with political and military events and featuring
historical figures.

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
76 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Georgine Olson [[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:19 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Non-Fiction in Verse


I've a patron who recently read a book about Shackleton's Endurance that
was written in verse, based on persona poems, and included quotes from
individuals involved.

He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE LAST WAR - which he
said had the same "feel" to it.

He wants more - Any ideas?

I've been poking around various sites with minimal success looking for
non-fiction in verse or using persona poems as a basis, but I ain't got
much to show for it: NIXON AND I by Karen Kovacik; WHAT PLACE IS THIS
by Rosalind MacPhee; VOICES OF 1918 by Ellen Bryant Voigt; maybe
AMERICA, A HISTORY IN VERSE by Edward Sanders (2 vols); GAULEY MOUNTAIN:
A HISTORY IN VERSE by Louise McNeill.

Thanks bunches!!!!!!!!

Georgine Olson

Outreach Services Manager
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library & Regional Center
1215 Cowles Street
Fairbanks AK 99701

ph: 907-459-1020
fax: 907-459-1024

FROM: al po <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 6:35 PM

How about Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book."
This very long poem (four hundred plus pages) is about
the trial of an obscure Italian count who murdered his
wife; the poem also deals with Robert and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's marriage. The "Cantos" of Ezra
Pound is riddled with history. This poem is beyond
comprehension at times. However, there are parts that
are very fun to read.

Hope this helps,

Alex
--- Georgine Olson <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
wrote:
>
>
> I've a patron who recently read a book about
> Shackleton's Endurance that
> was written in verse, based on persona poems, and
> included quotes from
> individuals involved.
>
> He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE
> LAST WAR - which he
> said had the same "feel" to it.
>
> He wants more - Any ideas?
>
> I've been poking around various sites with minimal
> success looking for
> non-fiction in verse or using persona poems as a
> basis, but I ain't got
> much to show for it: NIXON AND I by Karen Kovacik;
> WHAT PLACE IS THIS
> by Rosalind MacPhee; VOICES OF 1918 by Ellen Bryant
> Voigt; maybe
> AMERICA, A HISTORY IN VERSE by Edward Sanders (2
> vols); GAULEY MOUNTAIN:
> A HISTORY IN VERSE by Louise McNeill.
>
> Thanks bunches!!!!!!!!
>
> Georgine Olson
>
> Outreach Services Manager
> Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library &
> Regional Center
> 1215 Cowles Street
> Fairbanks AK 99701
>
> ph: 907-459-1020
> fax: 907-459-1024
>
>
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


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FROM: Leslie DeLooze <[removed]@nioga.org>
REC'D: 3/6/02, 9:31 AM

For this request, you might try Joan Murray's book QUEEN OF THE MIST,
which is the (true) story of Annie Taylor, the first person to go over
Niagara Falls in a barrel (and survive).
Leslie DeLooze
Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia, NY

Subject: Non-Fiction in Verse
From: "Georgine Olson" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:19:07 -0900

I've a patron who recently read a book about Shackleton's Endurance that

was written in verse, based on persona poems, and included quotes from
individuals involved.

He's also read a book by Andrew Hudgins - AFTER THE LAST WAR - which he
said had the same "feel" to it.

He wants more - Any ideas?

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:22 AM

Robert Penn Warren wrote a couple of books that might match this
description: "Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce", and "Brother to Dragons".
(I haven't read them, though.)

Of course, epics like the Aeneid, Beowulf, etc., were once believed to be
nonfictional. They may or may not not be what your patron's looking for,
though.

Bradley A. Scott

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FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 10:35 AM

> Of course, epics like the Aeneid, Beowulf, etc., were once
> believed to be
> nonfictional. They may or may not not be what your patron's
> looking for,
> though.
>

As long as we're casting back to the classics, it might be worth mentioning
that various American poets of the "early federal" period, late 18th and
early 19th centuries, wrote long neo-epic poems in praise of George
Washington, the American Revolution, and the discovery and "founding" of
America. These wouldn't be the best sources of true historical knowledge,
but they're interesting period pieces and were likewise considered
nonfiction. See, for instance, Joel Barlow's "Columbiad" or the longer works
of Timothy Dwight.

Jeff Smith

FROM: "Laura McCaffery" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 8:50 AM

Perhaps the new verse rendition of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney would fit the bill. lmc

Laura Hibbets McCaffery
Readers Services
Allen County Public Library
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Fort Wayne IN 46802
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