Adirondack Portraits

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(62 61 60 1)>Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(62 61 60 1)> is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains' relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970). Born in poverty in the Adirondacks as a young woman she emerged in the center of the literary and artistic circles of her day an associate of Ford Madox Ford James Joyce Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot and the Yeatses father and son. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(62 61 60 1)>Adirondack Portraits</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(62 61 60 1)> gives us a glimpse into the early life of Jeanne and some of the influences that helped her step from a harsh physical existence into the unforgettable world of New York Paris and London in the 1920s. Above all her poems and prose pieces are in the words of Alfred Kazin an attempt to recover a vanished time to record with love and admiration and enduring wonder a life of hardship endless exertion and perhaps above all the kind of isolation that used to dominate country life in America.</span></p>