Virginia Leaf

Ballads, Odes, Lyrics, Stanzas and Lines in Three Books

By: Edward Wright Haile

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Paperback | 28 July 2016

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The poet's foreword says he began all this on one fine day. It must have been finer than morning in an adjacent state by the looks of the result. What a sweep! What a breadth! What a memory! Who's left out here? Nobody I know. Virginia is 475 miles long but averages half that, which means here we have about one page per mile of her right across. He cautions that a reading voice with the proper pronunciation of "Hanover" and "Henrico" is advisable.

THE POLECAT PRIZE

RAN OFF ALL OTHERS

Some versifier came and sowed

many a thunderation ode.

This got the Golden Polecat Prize,

the one that draws the market flies,

awarding a chief excellence

that chases all the others hence;

puts to shame and in the shade

the Armadillo Accolade,

and that eternal charnel foist

so-called the yearly critics' choist.

It strands our thunderation moot

what's really worth a second hoot.

For some 'twill always be roast beef,

but, after that, Virginia leaf.

Industry Reviews

"Stories, legends, sayings, traditions-Virginiana all in the most diversified verse forms I have ever encountered. Definitely our portrait in the parlor. Enjoyed it cover to cover." Richard Cheatham, director, Living History Associates. "What an ear for music! And the sheer variety of poetic feeling, from laughter to tears, with invention on every page. The three sections, so different, somehow fit like masonry." Connie Lapallo, author of When the Moon Has No More Silver. "This is a treasure trove for lovers of Virginia and lovers of poetry. It's going to be a classic." Mark Greenough, Historian of the Capitol.

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