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Steam Laundry

por Nicole Stellon O'Donnell

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Steam Laundry is a novel in poems based on the true story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, a minerÆs wife during the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes. Her journey began as she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. She stayed there three years as the townÆs boom and her marriage burned out. In 1903, she left her husband and sons to start over in Fairbanks, Alaska, with another man. Based on archival research and incorporating historical documents and photographs, the poems approach the past through the ghosts of correspondence. The poems, written in the voices of Gibson, her family members, and the people who knew her, take on love, loss, failure, and desire. Some confront the drama of failed marriages, troubled family relationships, and alcoholism. Others spin the dramatic details of hunting accidents and subarctic survival into compelling stories in verse. They embody the opposing voices of an era during which men and women struggled in different, but overlapping, universes. By staring at Gibson through the spectral lenses of the people around her, the documents she left behind, and the vision of a contemporary poet, the particulars of GibsonÆs life are transformed into an exploration of the people history usually forgets. Steam Laundry offers the reader the chance to try on the dusty, mining-town overcoat of GibsonÆs life.… (mais)
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Oh, how I wanted to love this. O'Donnell tells the story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, or Nellie as she prefers, through a series of poems told from the perspective of Nellie and those around her. The poems are broken up into three parts: Nellie and her husband being separated while he searches for his fortune, Nellie and their two sons joining her husband and toughing it out in Alaska, and Nellie abandoning her family to move to Fairbanks with the man she loves. The poems are backed by research which really was the most compelling part.

This collection is part poetry and part historical fiction and unfortunately didn't fully satisfy me on either front.

My expectations of poetry may be too high--I like it to be chock full of meaning, transcendent. Even for ordinary events. Poetry should make the ordinary extraordinary. These poems occasionally got there for me, but usually the significance of the events seemed to be lost rather than enhanced by the medium.

As far as the historical fiction side goes, I needed more. I wanted to delve even further into Nellie's life: the decisions she made and why she made them. Or if I couldn't get the why (and this goes back to the poetry thing), I wanted to feel what she felt.

Maybe O'Donnell tried to do too much in too few pages. Maybe I was too excited to read this. Although I gave Steam Laundry only three stars, it almost got there for me, and I will absolutely read whatever O'Donnell puts out next. It's a good first work, and I bet her second will be even better. ( )
  Kara | Apr 26, 2012 |
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Steam Laundry is a novel in poems based on the true story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, a minerÆs wife during the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes. Her journey began as she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. She stayed there three years as the townÆs boom and her marriage burned out. In 1903, she left her husband and sons to start over in Fairbanks, Alaska, with another man. Based on archival research and incorporating historical documents and photographs, the poems approach the past through the ghosts of correspondence. The poems, written in the voices of Gibson, her family members, and the people who knew her, take on love, loss, failure, and desire. Some confront the drama of failed marriages, troubled family relationships, and alcoholism. Others spin the dramatic details of hunting accidents and subarctic survival into compelling stories in verse. They embody the opposing voices of an era during which men and women struggled in different, but overlapping, universes. By staring at Gibson through the spectral lenses of the people around her, the documents she left behind, and the vision of a contemporary poet, the particulars of GibsonÆs life are transformed into an exploration of the people history usually forgets. Steam Laundry offers the reader the chance to try on the dusty, mining-town overcoat of GibsonÆs life.

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