Click here to buy this book! Lulu Jane Gilgun's Storefront Scribd.com Category:  Poetry Publisher: Lulu Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 112 Copyright: April 2008 ISBN-13: 9781435715943 IN THIS MEMOIR, Jane Gilgun shares her life story through poetry. She shows a child discovering her world in its beauty and snares, themes she continues throughout her life as horsewoman, nature lover, social worker, and researcher on violence. Above all, these poems convey a spiritual journey of love and connection. IN THIS MEMOIR, Jane Gilgun shares her life story through poetry. Born in coastal Rhode Island, USA, Jane galloped Sadie Cummings, a race horse, on Narragansett Beach, fished off Beavertail, and tramped through the Spring Woods. She moved to Minnesota as an adult to be a professor at the University of Minnesota. Through poetry she shows a child discovering her world in its beauty and snares, themes she continues throughout her life as a horsewoman, a nature lover, a social worker, and a researcher of violence. Above all, these poems convey a spiritual journey about seeking, losing, and finding love and connection. Here's one of the poems from the collection. Tomatoes     Tom Smiley, the town drunk, must’ve thought himself a clever fellow, sneaking through the woods on his way to the bar, leaving behind the vine-covered cottage where he lived with his wife and kids who begged him not to drink.   Silent as a cheetah, he stole in on us small kids playing in the woods, scaring us, excusing himself with silent smile and whiskey breath and slinking noiselessly away.   His children turned out well, son superintendent of schools, daughter superior of her order, Tom dead of cirrhosis, widow dead behind the green of the viney cottage.   Once I saw Tom emerge from the woods, go to our garden, pick tomatoes, put them in a paper sack, knock on our back door, ask my mother if she would like to buy some nice plump tomatoes. She said no.   I never told on Tom till now. I don’t know why.   Excerpt How Does my Dog Find Meaning? How does my dog find meaning? He lies face first in front of the heat vent in the dead cold of Minnesota winter. He watches out the window barks at the neighbor’s cat an old couple walking a limping black dog eyes joyous when I strap him into his down coat highsteps down the sidewalk meeting with open mouth the wall of invisible ice that is the air we both breathe. Lifts his leg and makes a hole in the snow chases a squirrel up a elm falls asleep in a shaft of sunlight on the dusty wood floor. I want to be a dog forever.

One Woman's Life
Through poetry, Jane Gilgun tells the story of one woman's life. Born in coastal Rhode Island, USA, Jane galloped Sadie Cummings, a race horse, on Narragansett Beach, fished off Beavertail, and tramped through the Spring Woods. She shows how the threads of childhood weave themselves throughout her life as a horsewoman, a nature enthusiast, a woman in love, a social worker, and a violence researcher.

Written in imagistic, lyric, and narrative styles, these poems convey the rhythms of a life fully lived--the sharp, often painful intrusions of beauty, the transcendence of erotic love, the fears and intrigue of bodily changes, the horror of violence, and the warmth and comfort of everyday life.