The Braid
(Helen Frost)
Abstract 23
By: Parvusvox
Title: The Braid
By: Helen Frost
Published by: Frances Foster Books, 19 Union Square West, New York, 2006
The result of this effort is creative composition and Book intended for an audience of at least seventh grade ? middle school academic Language Arts experience. The contents consist of Scottish and Canadian history -- Ms. Frost creates a fictional family whose lives parallel her personal heritage trail ---to the Old Country and distant relatives. She does this with poetry that is very intricate, and the outcome of the book has an overall universal affect to it. The Braid consists of alternating poem types which Ms. Frost wove together in -- what I would call a quilt. The poems are either narratives, or shorter stanzas -- she calls the shorter stanza by item names based on images drawn from the narrative poems. She put them together the same way she imagined people there had used stones as they built each of their ancient huts stone by stone. Her uses of the image The Braid may actually be similar to the ?refrain as used common Ballad Poems and Musical Ballads. I call this book -- her ballad to the ancestors. Ms. Frost invented a new narrative poem writing method here by using different connotations of words and sometimes different meanings to continue between stanzas -- she thus weaves words together as a Braid. The previous stanzas? use of one word is often slightly changed in the next. Sometimes the narrative is concrete and the stanza is Abstract and other times the narrative is abstract and the stanza concrete?.This is important book because it is a tutorial on how to capture ones own inspirations by focusing them together around materials that we each hold most dear. Rex S. The Parvusvox Journal
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