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Shadows of Norfolk
"Bill Perry's collection of thirteen poems, Shadows of Norfolk, was written in part when he was growing up in Norfolk,
Connecticut in the late 1950s … and other poems were penned when he returned to Norfolk in 1968.
There is nostalgia - wondering nostalgia - in his writing. In 'Homecoming,' the 'faintly lilac breeze
across the Village Green' offers a 'composite of a once-was place'; or in 'Hillborn,' 'Our memories
are pathless woods and mountains … We have dreamed in newcut hayfields drying hot beneath the bluejay summer sky.'
Bill Perry is at his best in his romantic description of a night at a drive-in movie; in his Gothic
treatment of violence and 'deathical visages' on a long-ago Halloween in Norfolk, and in the tragedy
that may lie just around the bend on 'Route 44.'"
- from "Home-grown poet" by Wakeman Hartley, the Register Citizen, July 19, 1984
Shadows of Norfolk takes you back to a small-town 1950s community and captures a sense of growing
up particular to the area but also universal and applicable to anywhere in rural America at that time.
Bill Perry is a British Columbia west coast writer originally from Connecticut who has spent
his life in the outdoors as a ski jumper, ski instructor, mountaineer and forestry specialist.
Currently he shares his time in Ucluelet, Mount Washington and Vancouver. He is the owner and
operator of Green Wave Adventures that specializes in guided hikes and seaside scrambles along
the Wild Pacific Trail.
Email: Bill Perry
Steven F. Perry, Institut fuer Zoologie, Universitaet Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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