The Goose Girl in Detroit
A Book of Folklore, Fairy Tale, Myth and Other Poems
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When the author came to Detroit, it was still a boomtown. Henry Ford
started it over on Piquette Street, 1904-1910. Now, large parts of the city
have gone to urban farming, as symbolized by the goose girl and her crowd.
In this volume there's folklore as in Granny, fairy tales and myth, even one
going back to the Roman Empire and Christianity. There are war poems
and a long meditation on technology in the form of the railroads and on creativity.
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About the Book
When the author came to Detroit, it was still a little bit of a boomtown. Henry Ford started it over on Piquette Street, 1904-1910. Now, large parts of the city have gone over to urban farming, as symbolized by the Goose Girl and her crowd. In this volume there’s folklore as in Granny, fairy tale and myth, even one going back to the Roman Empire and Christianity. There are war poems and a long meditation on technology in the form of the railroads and on creativity. The book is in free verse form.
About the Author
Joan P. Hudson has been a student scholar, linguist and theorist, also a poet. She has appeared several times at “Detroit Tonight Live” presented by M. L. Liebler, professor, poet, impresario and band leader at the Music Hall in Detroit. She is the author of Days of Infamy about the 9/11/2001 attacks on the United States (check out the astounding painting on its cover), and The Cranes Are Flying from the mountains of immortality to the worlds of men and women in Far Eastern art.