Ms. Booth's Garden
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578065089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet in her state of advancing age she presides with majesty and grace among the things and the people she knows. These exceptional, poignant photographs of Ms. Booth accommodates her life to its rhythms. He lives in Santa Fe, N. M., who goes South to visit her. He shows her in trips to the bank, to the church, and to the local shops. His work has appeared in Americana, Architectural Digest, Smithsonian, Time, Su Casa, and Santa Fean. Booth in her homey, local world capture an ever-constant irony--that although nature and mortals age together, nature endures as mortals fade. Booth is the photographer's grandmother. Ms. Ms. M.. Kotz shows Ms. C., and Santa Fe, N. "What most interested me over time was simply my grandmother's day-to-day life," Kotz says. Indeed, her "garden" is the mellowing community itself, her lifelong, intimate friend. These are serene, loving images, mainly of life in the exuberant garden. He shows too the cozy home place she has created. In praise of this collection Bailey White, the author and NPR commentator, says, "These photographs give so much that you have the feeling that if you just look hard enough you will be able to understand it all--the complexities of old, old friendships, the sweep of
Her essays and stories have appeared in magazines and on NPR's "All Things Considered". She has worked as a schoolteacher and a writer. . She is the author of two story collections, "ama Makes Up Her Mind" and "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel", and a novel, "Quite a Year for Plums". Bailey White was born and raised in Thomasville, Georgia
HarryHightower said For me, a return home.. I was born in 19For me, a return home. HarryHightower I was born in 1941 on a diet road just outside of Mathiston's town limits. I went to school with Mrs. Booth's son. My mother knew her. I know the people in the book: not as individuals but as archetypes. The book is true to the place and time. For me it was a return home to a gentler, kinder time in my life. For all aspects of the book, I give it a 5.. 1 on a diet road just outside of Mathiston's town limits. I went to school with Mrs. Booth's son. My mother knew her. I know the people in the book: not as individuals but as archetypes. The book is true to the place and time. For me it was a return home to a gentler, kinder time in my life. For all aspects of the book, I give it a 5.. Gerald Booth said A Treat for the Eyes. There is a saying that, "A Picture is worth a Thousand Words." In this case, that is more than true. Words alone could not describe the beauty and emotion that is alive in these pictures.With this book, Jack Kotz takes the "reader" on a journey though his life, and the lives of people that have influenced him greatly. The title of the book concerns his grandmother, Myrtle Booth, and the garden is, to put it simply, her world. The photographs show a mixture of the desolation and the beauty that can be found in rural Mississippi and Tennessee. Words don't real. JKT said Pictorial Journey. Jack Kotz does a wonderful job with this work. Every family-room coffee table should be sporting this book as a conversation piece.
From the Inside Flap A gentle photographic look at an elderly woman in her rural Mississippi landscape