Research Catalog

Title

Poets on place : tales and interviews from the road / [compiled] by W.T. Pfefferle ; with a foreword by David St. John.

Publication

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pfefferle, W. T.

Description

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• United States > In literature
• Local color in literature
• Setting (Literature)
• United States > Description and travel
• American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Regionalism in literature
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
• Poets, American > 21st century > Interviews
• Pfefferle, W. T > Travel > United States

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

James Harms - Morgantown, West Virginia -- Landscape as the latest diet (Southern California) -- David Citino - Columbus, Ohio -- Through a glass, darkly -- Martha Collins - Oberlin, Ohio -- Linda Gregerson - Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Richard Tillinghast - Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Wake me in South Galway -- Orlando Ricardo Menes - South Bend, Indiana -- Mark Strand - Chicago, Illinois -- A morning -- Karen Volkman - Chicago, Illinois -- Lisa Samuels - Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Marvin Bell - Iowa City, Iowa -- Port Townsend, Washington, waterside -- Michael Dennis Browne - Minneapolis, Minnesota -- from At the cabin -- David Allan Evans - Brookings, South Dakota -- David Romtvedt - Buffalo, Wyoming -- With Caitlin, age 8, building a qhuinzee for a winter night -- Sandra Alcosser - Lolo, Montana -- Mare Frigoris -- Robert Wrigley - Moscow, Idaho -- Ordinary magic -- Nance Van Winckel - Liberty Lake, Washington -- Awaiting the return ferry -- Christopher Howell - Spokane, Washington -- Mark Halperin - Ellensburg, Washington -- Accident -- Jana Harris - Sultan, Washington -- Mr. Elija Welch, first planting -- Sam Hamill - Port Townsend, Washington -- Barbara Drake - Yamhill, Oregon -- from The man from the past visits the present -- Floyd Skloot - Amity, Oregon -- A warming trend -- Ralph Angel - South Pasadena, California -- Carol Muske-Dukes - Los Angeles, California -- Twin cities -- David St. John - Venice, California -- Dijon -- Sharon Bryan - San Diego, California -- Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, Nevada -- A parish in the Bronx -- Alberto Rios - Chandler, Arizona -- Richard Shelton - Tucson, Arizona -- Local knowledge -- Jane Miller - Tucson, Arizona -- #15 from A Palace of Pearls -- William Wenthe - Lubbock, Texas -- Alien -- Naomi Shihab Nye - San Antonio, Texas -- Pause -- Peter Cooley - Jefferson, Louisiana -- Miller Williams - Fayetteville, Arkansas -- Beth Ann Fennelly - Oxford, Mississippi -- from The kudzu chronicles -- Natasha Trethewey - Decatur, Georgia -- South -- Denise Duhamel - Hollywood, Florida -- Valentines, Hollywood Beach -- Campbell McGrath - Miami Beach, Florida -- Terrance Hayes - Columbia, South Carolina -- Threshold -- Alan Shapiro - Chapel Hill, North Carolina -- Bower -- Nikki Giovanni - Blacksburg, Virginia -- Charles Wright - Charlottesville, Virginia -- High country spring -- Rita Dove - Charlottesville, Virginia -- The house on Bishop Street -- Henry Taylor - Bethesda, Maryland -- Harvest -- Dave Smith - Baltimore, Maryland -- Gaines Mill battlefield -- Nicole Cooley - Glen Ridge, New Jersey -- Unfinished sketch : green sandbox winter sky -- David Lehman - New York, New York -- April 9 -- Lucie Brock-Broido - New York, New York -- Michael S. Harper - Providence, Rhode Island -- C. D. Wright - Barrington, Rhode lsland -- from The Ozark odes -- Mark Wunderlich - Provincetown, Massachusetts -- James Cummins - Cincinnati, Ohio -- Spring comes to Hamilton Avenue -- Frederick Smock - Louisville, Kentucky -- Heron -- Mark Jarman - Nashville, Tennessee -- Nashville moon -- Carl Phillips - St. Louis, Missouri -- Scott Cairns - Columbia, Missouri -- Mud trail -- Elisabeth Dodd - Manhattan, Kansas -- Sonnet, almost -- Jonathan Holden - Manhattan, Kansas -- Bin Ramke - Denver, Colorado -- Kenneth Brewer - Logan, Utah -- Paisley Rekdal - Salt Lake City, Utah -- Ode -- Gas giant.

ISBN

0874215978 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004028467

OCLC

• ocm57208311
• SCSB-5173562

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries