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Show FORMER RESIDENT PUBLISHES POEMS Minter Jackson Steorts of Lyn-wood, Lyn-wood, Calif., has had a volume of verse, "Vagabond Trails", published pub-lished by the Wetzel Publishing company of Los Angeles. Mr. Steorts, whose pen name is Minter Min-ter Jackson, formerly worked at the Bingham mine of Utah Copper Cop-per company as an electrician and his contributions were frequently fre-quently published by the Bulletin Bulle-tin about five years aoo. Foreword of his book is in itself it-self a fine review: "There are no lines that are "Heaven - sent, Or to make you guess what the author meant, No arm-chair poet's mental trip To a fairy-land on a cocktail ship, No saintly psalms or pious prayer, Life was rough, and I wrote from there: From the corner-stand where the newsies fight To the tinseled "Top" where might is right; From the darkest deoths that a soul can sink To the astral fountain where the prophets drink. I laugh at the critic's "Bad" and "Good", And write my rhymes as a heathen heath-en would Unhampered by a yoke of fears Of a wrath on Earth, or in after years." His songs are of familiar things of "Saturday Night" and a "Hangover" of "An Order For Copper" and veer from the realistic real-istic to the meditative, from the rebelliousness ' of "Vagabond Trails" to the sentimental sincerity sin-cerity of "To My Son With .a Gun" and "Mother's Day". A choice quatrain expresses a chacteristic reflective note: "I wonder which would be the better armor In Life's struggle, which would be the better tool, To be cursed with active mind of a lonely thinker, Or be blast with the dormant mind of a happy fool?" |