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American Poetry
 The
Passing of the Storm, by Alfred Castner King is an epic poem that
manages to tell the history of the early 1900s including the Civil War, the Russian Revolution, and
life in the Rocky Mountains through the stories of miners trapped in a
cabin during a blizzard. It reads like prose and is wonderful - describing American history, the American West and the American frontier through poetry. The book includes Other Poems at the end describing life in the American West during the early 1900's and particularly the beauty of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado.
Originally published in 1907, Alfred Castner King’s unique and beautiful The Passing of the Storm survives as his most enduring work. A rare example of epic verse, it sends its readers deep into the heart of the ruggedly wild world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, blending together the pivotal events of that tumultuous era with an ageless tale of brotherly courage and love.
Even before his accidental blinding midway through life, it was King’s passion to forever memorialize the natural splendor and simple majesty of the American frontier and its humble working class. But it was his continual struggle to come to terms with his late tragedy that gives much of his collected Other Poems their unique and intensely captivating voice.
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Note on Alfred Castner King found written in the cover of the original book.
"Purchased this book from the author, Mr. A. C. King who is now blind having lost his eyesight in a mining explosion at Ouray, Colo. and composed this book along with one other since the accident."
E.F. Mirran
5/12/1910, Denver, Colorado.
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By publishing The Passing of the Storm, we found another
fan of Alfred Castner King in Francis Wood. Francis is the author
of books whose stories cover a broad spectrum of American life
from the feelings of post war veterans to Native American folklore
and can be found at The
Tip of the Moon website. Francis based a character
in his book, The
Angel Carver,
on Alfred Castner King.
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Sarah Bell, an unknown poet, writes in The Little Lass and the Sailor, of the wanderings of a sailor on the frontier of the sea and the love of his little lass. This poem, written in ballad format, is a love story, a parable, a deeply spiritual and moving tale of life's more painful and challanging choices behind the love of the little lass and the sailor. ARose Books hopes one day to publish this in a small, beautiful book that will be a keepsake.
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