A Block in Time is a 200 year history of a Boston neighborhood as viewed from the vantage point of a single street, Holyoke.

A Block in Time: History of Boston's South End Through a Window on Holyoke Street

History

Potts, Lynne

Americas

Local History Publishers

In this sequel to A Block in Time, an informal history of Boston’s South End, Lynne Potts interviews twenty-four current residents who reflect the extraordinary ethnic and economic diversity of the neighborhood. They include newcomers and old-timers, owners of luxury town houses and financially stressed tenants, risk-takers and conformists, young and old, gay and straight, who together illustrate the dramatic changes that have taken place in the community over the past fifty years. Despite their differences, these South Enders reveal, perhaps to a surprising degree, a shared outlook on the factors that characterize life in the city today.

Faces of a Neighborhood: Boston’s South End in the Early Twenty-first Century

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Dispersed among some ten poems celebrating the nubiferous paintings of Arthur Dove (1880-1946)) are another forty (also nubiferous) poems by Lynne Potts. I believe this transcendent duplicity requires some prompting about Dove's pictures which are among the earliest abstract works painted in this country. Dove and his second wife Helen Torr lived on a river boat in eastern NY, where their aim was to discover the exact color and form or motif to represent the essence of the object painted. Hence Helen's countless questions ("How does one capture the soma of the sea? / Watch until transparency turns liquid topaz." And again: "Outside the boat window / the storm had cleared; he painted it pale yellow, / a serrated knife for lightning. She put it in his / accumulating pile, not far from her few." The immense satisfaction of Porthole View is the impossibility of uncoupling the licentious recreation of Dove &amp; Torr from the learned originality of Lynne Potts. -Richard Howard With a luminous clarity Lynne Potts peers into the world of artist couple Arthur Dove and Helen Torr. Find in these beguiling poems an urgency and buoyancy about what presses upon the artistic spirit and process, and upon the fragile fabric of a relationship. -Nance Van Winckel

Porthole View

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

National Poetry Review Press

Craft-savvy and intelligent, Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun. Her ability to inject fresh language through beautiful imagery, as well as her natural ear for musicality, shows her appreciation for the subtlety of craft. Perfect rhythmic control reinforces her keen grasp on how two images put together in succession instantly creates meaning. Strings of concrete scenes tell a tale of the greater whole, as she ruminates upon images that seize, moments that claim, in the transformation of memory. Rich rural settings draw the reader into lush meditations on fish and water, creature and birds, nature and the ever dominant palette of blue. Atmosphere effortlessly paints a seamless dream, a complete and utter submersion into text. All the while ordinary objects are cast in new light, rendering even the "Green glazed diner vinyl counter top" beautiful or the ladder's "stretch to high barns / of hay scent, mouse hair, soft landings" as profound.

The Relentless Pronoun

Glass Lyre Press

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A Block in Time: History of Boston's South End Through a Window on Holyoke Street

Faces of a Neighborhood: Boston’s South End in the Early Twenty-first Century

Porthole View

The Relentless Pronoun