Dr. Gordon Grigsby, Professor Emeritus of The Ohio State University, delivers 55 passionate, razor-edge poems in these 71 pages. This award-winning volume was published 1977-12-01 by The Ohio State University Press.

Tornado Watch

Grigsby, Gordon

Literature & Fiction

Ohio State Univ Pr

"In lines that are taut, lean and lucid, Gordon Grigsby s poems embody the substrate and the epic story of the world from which we came and in which we now struggle to survive. This is a necessary, indeed an essential book for our time." Ernest Lockridge s most recent book: Skeleton Key to the Suicide of My Father Ross Lockridge, Jr, author of Raintree County  "In poem after piercing poem The Light Here, An Ocean Sound, Nancy s Sandwich Shop Heightened Consciousness Grigsby weaves our intense human moments of love, sorrow, or joy into the beauty and grandeur of our indifferent earth. The art of his vision is unique and invaluable." Julian Markels, author of The Marxian Imagination  "Like James Wright before him, Gordon Grigsby is an essential Mid-Western poet, a hard-scrabbled farmer of words, a steel-worker tending to the furnaces of an imagination that flares in darkness: "the praised madness that trembles the air." The geography of Ohio, the names of its vanished Indian tribes, the smell of a dead child and the poisoned rain, are here given their full measure of terrible beauty." Michael Salcman, author of The Clock Made of Confetti and The Enemy of Good Is Better  "Dawn Night Fall explores the interplay between sorrow and hope, tragic realities and the mind s freedom, through startlingly original images and ideas. As in Walden, Grigsby uses his house on a small river in Mt. Air, Ohio as a way into the natural world, ancient and personal history, world travels, and complex combinations of pain and luminosity: ashes of a premature baby, woman and children waiting in corrugated tin shanties, a loved father lonely in Sun City, the glow of needles on a forest floor, streetlamp glint on everyone s hair. Readers are richly rewarded for his extraordinary vision." Jan Schmittauer, Associate Professor, Ohio University

Dawn Night Fall (Evening Street Press Chapbooks)

Contemporary

Evening Street Press

<p>Young readers will be introduced to childhood without video games or cell phones, while seniors - especially those from small towns - will revel in memories of chores and the many ways children entertained themselves. The collection is as tasty as the potatoes retrieved from a charcoal fire after sledding in the snow - Wilda Morris, Editor, Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge</p>

Free Range Kids: Poems by Peggy Trojan (Evening Street Press Chapbooks)

Trojan, Peggy

Bergmann, Barbara

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