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April 17, 2025 1 min
A poetic portrait of fatherhood in the shadow of loss.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, and welcome to the WBZ Book Club. Missus Jordan
Rich here to tell you about a collection of poetry
with a universal theme that will touch one's heart. It's
called Big Man by San Diego poet Katie Kemple. The
big Man in this case is her late father, who
was a lot of things, a teacher, a veteran, a widower,
With poems covering the Big Man's lifetime from his early

(00:25):
days to the very end. It's been called a love
letter to a dad who raised his daughters with a
sense of optimism about the future. And there are many
humorous poetic examples as well, things that all of us
who have dads and our dads will identify with the
joy of fatherhood in the shadow of loss, this poet
Katie Kemple captures the essence of fatherhood from her perspective,

(00:47):
one that's quite universal. Big Man, a collection of poetry
by Katie Kemple. The Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio
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