Appleseed Hollow
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Appleseed Hollow
The author goes to the country as a born and bred urbanite. He has become too enmeshed in a tangle of social attachment and obligations and therefore welcomes the change, the fresh air, the open spaces and the mostly silent but affectionate fellowship of the animals. The personal relationship between the author, who is also a much published poet, and the owner, who is also a much exhibited painter, is relegated to a minor key, for the main interest of this book, is what goes on between the people and the animals, primarily dogs and cats.
The book is written in the style of a journal, which gives it a tone of immediacy. Its moving details turn the hollow and its environs into a self-contained world, a world of ceaseless change and activity in which two human beings express their profound respect for the land they live on by their every action and by their loving care and concern for the animals who share it with them.
About the Author
Jack Lindeman was born and raised in Philadelphia. He was educated in the public schools there and after serving three years in the army continued his education at West Chester State College (PA), University of Pennsylvania, University of Mississippi, American University, and Villanova University. He worked for the GAO in Washington, D.C., for a year and then slipped into teaching at such institutions as Lincoln University (PA), Temple University, and Kutztown University (PA), from which he is retired. He has published two books: TWENTY-ONE POEMS (Atlantis Editions) about which Joseph Joel Keith wrote in a review in Elizabeth VIII "Pick any of Mr. Lindeman's lines at random and you select the work of an artist who does not know how to write unpoetically. This poet has searched . . . (and) found a fresh, vital, honest, rhythmic force: himself. And you who read will find none better."; THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS (The Chilton Book Co.) that the critic Edward Wagenknecht said in a review " . . . gives us a new angle on the Civil War . . . (and) one wonders indeed why nobody has done this particular job before." Jack Lindeman has the genuine verbal flair common to the best poetry of the little magazines." Ihab Hassan in Saturday Review. He has published hundreds of poems in magazines and newspapers such as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blueline, Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, Colorado Quarterly, Commonweal, Dickinson Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, High Plains Review, Hollins Critic, Kansas Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, The Nation, New World Writing, The New York Times, Oregon East, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Rocky Mountain Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, etc. A number of his poems have been reprinted in anthologies. He has also published critical essays and reviews in The Literary Review, Modern Age, Poetry, etc. From 1955 to 1961 he was editor of the little magazine Whetstone and from 1981 to 1983 poetry editor of the Time Capsule.