Poems of Grandpa Way

Norma Van Devander has collected and saved poems of author Hazen Way, her Grandpa Way. His life during the Second World War and his life working along the Canadian-Maine border inspired him to compose poetry. He was also an accomplished singer who performed for local gatherings, thus becoming a celebrated local bard of the Maine and Acadian woods. His poetry has the direct universal appeal of Robert Frost and Marianne Moore.But it is the pathos of civilian laborers during World War II that Hazen brings to his poems that make them of interest to American as well as Canadian readers.