No New or Polished Coins

The poems included in No New Or Polished Coins were written over a period of some thirty-eight years from a variety of sources and reflect a personal appreciation for and understanding of the human condition. Tempe Crosby's poems explore a wide range of subjects, including the many family and local history stories collected during her family history research, her church, her intensive reading and her life growing up in small town with the railroad as the dominate industry.

In this self-conscious age of instant, world-wide picture and word transmission, Tempe Crosby endeavored always to remain aware of man's need for genuine communications-dialogue, to be responsive to this need and to reflect and speak with understanding, meaning and transparence to and about man, about interpersonal relationships, about life-it circumstances, landscapes.