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By William Kloefkorn
Negotiating the no man’s land among a long time 9 and 13, this memoir of a small-town boy’s lifestyles in Forties Kansas keeps the tale William Kloefkorn all started in his much-loved quantity This demise by way of Drowning. With attribute humor and in prose as lyrical as his top poetry, Kloefkorn describes the unsentimental schooling he got by the hands of the denizens of Urie’s Barber store and the Rexall Drugstore and on the knees of the genuine characters who made up his family members. From the “firefly” stunt that almost burns down his domestic to the far away firestorms of worldwide battle II, hearth holds an never-ending diversity of refined and fabulous classes for the boy, whose impressions Kloefkorn conveys with the immediacy, naivet?, and poignancy of youth—and reconsiders with the knowledge and distance of age. By turns captivating and resolute, humorous and relocating, Restoring the Burnt baby powerfully brings to existence the misplaced, unforgettable international of a boy, and a poet, coming of age in midcentury center the US.
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Sister Hook carried a black, dog-eared Bible, too, but hers was easily twice the size of Grandfather’s; throughout the service she would hold the book first in one hand, then in the other, at times slapping it with her free hand, at other times slapping it against the top of the pulpit: slap and slap and slap, until I’d fully expected the pulpit to say something in its own defense, or to break down and ask for mercy. By the time Grandfather and I had reached the big top it was half filled; tenters had been joined by people from my town, many of whom I recognized, as well as strangers from neighboring towns – Sharon, Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Hazelton, and probably others from towns farther away.
Tonight, she said, we are standing on the promises of Christ our King, standing here in this grove of God’s green trees, standing here where nothing but the blood of Jesus can wash us and make us whole. Praise Jesus! Praise his precious blood! We are, she said, standing on the promises that cannot fail, standing here in a place that is not our home – not this grove, not this state of Kansas, not this nation – for, she said, this world is not our home; we are simply passing through, our treasures being, she said, laid up elsewhere, elsewhere being, she said, Beulah Land, where we will stand on the eternal mountain under a cloudless sky, where standing there we will drink at that fountain that never shall run dry, shall feast, she said, on manna from a bountiful supply, for we shall be dwelling, she said, in Beulah Land.
Follow me! And the girl jumped onto the surface of the stump, whereupon the other sisters jumped on the tree stump, too. When the last of the sisters was standing on the stump, it began slowly to rise. The growling of the brother grew louder and louder, but the stump continued to rise until the bear, having arrived at the tree, could not reach its sisters, no matter how fiercely it growled or how savagely it clawed at the tree’s thick bark. And the stump continued to rise; higher and higher it rose, and it was rising still as the sun went down and darkness covered the earth where the girls had been.