When the lawn is cut, the vegetable garden weeded, and the wife tenderly tended, what's an old man to do?  Jesse Coghill listens to voices and writes poetry.
     Born and raised -- and still living and breathing -- on a farm near Jordan, Minnesota, Jesse Coghill writes poetry for the common man.  Jesse will tell you his poetry is for the common man because he himself is a common man.  I tell you, however, that Jesse is uncommonly common.  How many old men do you know who write stories in rhyme?  Who put words of the heart and soul on paper?  Who surrender thoughts of today, yesterday, and tomorrow to others?  Jesse Coghill does just that.
     His poetry speaks to us, the common man.  Within it we find life as it could be, as it would be, as it sometimes is.  Because his poetry is from the heart, it touches us.  In some of it we see ourselves.  In some of it we see others.  In all of it we see Jesse Coghill, a man who has experienced good times and bad, who looks outsides himself as well as inside, who ponders the world as he has seen it, imagined it, and lived it.
     In VOICES ARE CALLING, Jesse Coghill writes of Friends and Foreigners, Nature and Beast, Battles and Blessings, Pen and Poetry, Youth and Old Age.  His poetry is uncommonly good.
     Also within this handsome book are black and white photographs taken at the Coghill farm and at Jordan, as well as a biography of the author.  VOICES ARE CALLING retails for $15.  --Publisher Sue Orsen.