Finding Token Creek: New & Selected Writing, 1975-2020 - Robert Alexander

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Résumé :
From Richmond. Virginia, to Madison, Wisconsin, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, this new collection by Robert Alexander spans both physical and emotional distances. Comprising prose poems and flash fiction written over the course of a 45-year career, Finding Token Creek reveals an imaginative and deeply felt connection both with other human beings and with the natural world. Jim Harrison called Alexander?s work ?lucid and lovely.?...

Biographie:
Robert Alexander grew up in Massachusetts. He attended the University of Wisconsin?Madison and for several years taught in the Madison Public Schools. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee, he worked for many years as a freelance editor. From 1993-2001, he was a contributing editor at New Rivers Press, serving the final two years as New Rivers? creative director. Alexander is the founding editor of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series at White Pine Press. He divides his time between southern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His books of poetry include White Pine Sucker River, What the Raven Said, and Richmond Burning. In addition, he has two works of literary history, Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy, and The Northwest Ordinance: Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land....

Sommaire:
CONTENTS Introduction: Prose/Poetry Richmond Burning Clouds of Swallows Maggie May Late One Night Frog-pond in April Afternoon This Year Ralph Sees What We Can Learn from Other Primates Muskrat After the Reading The Clouds Pregnant with Rain Two about Dogs Pedestal Ralph Rises Early Archive Like Our Shadow-Selves September Whatever Dance Crows Turtle in the Afternoon A Black Spruce Meditation A Puffball Nearly Spherical from What the Raven Said Ralph in His Canoe Ralph Goes to the Birds I n a Month This Will All Be The Naming of Muskrat Point Every Day Ralph The Night the Honey Locusts Bloom Vacation Notes Ralph Attends the Turtle Convention Lake Solstice Eagle and Otter at Midsummer In the Sportsman Ralph Among the Lily Pads What I Wanted to Tell You On the Last Day of Summer Only in Retrospect Ralph Wakes One Morning Old Possum Mosquito Bay What the Raven Said Paddler?s Technique Now the Lake is Empty from White Pine Sucker River Where Ralph Lived At the Party From Where He Sat White Pine Sucker River Weekend Mickey Library Was It Louis Aragon A Joe Pass Guitar Solo One of the Guys Every Night He?d See Her Finding Token Creek My Father Had a Small Lab For Years My Father At Night the Street Rain Ralph Finds a New Park Corn Supermarkets Vacation Garage Snow at Ten O?clock from Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy Calhoun?s Monument postscript: Ralph & the Rabbit...