The Lilacs of Ishpeming: After the Kalevala Poems
Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Jane Piirto’s The Lilacs of Ishpeming: After the Kalevala (Poems) offers a colorful view of the author’s Upper Peninsula roots and her Finnish heritage. Ishpeming is a town in the western portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.), approximately 15 miles from the town of Marquette,…