{"id":16099,"date":"2023-05-30T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2023-05-30T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:37:12","slug":"first-impressions-early-days-with-anne-by-don-gutteridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=16099","title":{"rendered":"FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Early Days with Anne By Don Gutteridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An emotionally striking work that is sure to leave a lasting mark\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe began merely as companions,\/ comfortable in the other\u2019s company,\u201d Gutteridge narrates in his intimate and refreshing latest. \u201cme: a kind of country\/ bumpkin from a backwater town;\/ you: big-city wise,\/ sophisticate of opera\/ and art and all things\/ chic and durably urban,\u201d he further writes. And thus begins a beautiful journey of love and companionship that lasted for decades until his wife Anne\u2019s death. Throughout this collection, Gutteridge skillfully weaves narrative and lyric, poignant emotion and passion, and philosophical musings, and in the process he not only reveals how his decades-long blissful relationship started but the sweet, determined Anne as a person as well. In one poem, he talks about how Anne was so different to what he dreamed of: \u201cWhenever I dreamt erotic,\/ the object of my quixotic\/ desire was almost always\/ a doctored blonde with bold\/ blue eyes the size of the\/ Elgin marbles.\u201d  In \u201cNugget,\u201d readers meet the woman, who took pride in loving and being loved. Almost all of the entries are in the form of free-flowing narrative form, \u201cI bring you home to meet\/ my mother, and when she smiles\/ across the room at you,\/ I can see she\u2019s sizing up\/ her rival\u2019s size, your \u2018matronly\u2019\/ shape and the mutinous bob\/ of your unnecessarily lustrous\/ locks and trying to decide\/ whose cradle was being robbed, and whether the smile\/ blooming lupine in your eyes\/ is blameless, or bridal.\u201d Artfully constructed, the collection is an ode to all that is love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIRST IMPRESSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Days with Anne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don Gutteridge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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