Poems & Pictures

Jerri Garretson

Aug 2023 · Jerri Garretson

About this ebook

These forty-nine poems were written between 1963 and 1973, years of the author's young adulthood from high school through college, to young motherhood. They were highly influenced by the immense amount of reading she was required to do for both high school and college classes for majors in English literature and psychology, as well as personal experiences, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The author, who is a published photographer and graphic artist, has illustrated the poems with her pictures (photos, drawings and other creations). None of the pictures were created to illustrate the poems they accompany, and were taken or created between 1967 and 2022, but are chosen add to the experience of the poems, which range from the deeply serious to capricious, from thoughtful to truly silly. To preserve the design of the pages, this ebook's pages are in a fixed format. The book is 67 pages long.

About the author

Jerri Garretson grew up in Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. For 24 years, she lived all over the world with her husband, a military attorney. She earned her master’s degree at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. They later returned to Kansas where she was head children’s librarian for Manhattan Public Library for six years and retired from Kansas State University, where she was a reference librarian. In 1997 she began publishing her stories tall tales and ghost stories, including the young adult mystery, The Secret of Whispering Springs, which was named to state reading lists in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Her most recent book before Poems & Pictures was the nonfiction No Place Like Home - Growing Up in Manhattan, Kansas 1948-1964, about her unusual childhood and the life of the times.