My Fondest Wish for Happiness: The Poetry of Selma Ness Amundson($25.00Value)

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For nearly 40 years, Selma Ness Amundson quietly wrote poetry for her family, friends and church. After her death in 1989, she left behind three spiral notebooks, in her impeccably neat handwriting, filled with poems that marked special occasions in the lives of those around her. Her Christian faith was paramount in nearly every poem. Selma lived the life of a typical Midwestern wife, mother and grandmother who worked alongside her husband, who managed her household with an enviable discipline, who found humor in the mundane and the exceptional and whose kitchen output can be described as not only prodigious but delectable. Grandson Ken Amundson, not content with having her poetry lost to history, has gathered those poems in this volume and published them under her name, together with a biographical forward that begins to tell her story. My Fondest Wish for Happiness, the book title, comes from a common line in her poems as she extended well wishes for those about whom she wrote.