These Purple Years Contributor(s): Fielden, Amelia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1760415596 ISBN-13: 9781760415594 Publisher: Debbie Lee OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.70 lbs) 322 pages |
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Publisher Description: A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired ... And make up for the sobriety of my youth A nice synchronicity between East and West, isn't it? Loving the colour purple, I quite often wear it, not just to Red Hat Society functions. I was born in 1941, and most of the tanka in this book have been written and published during my 'purple years'. |