Someday I'd Write This Down

Lowell Jaeger

Shabda Press

Native Land

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Pudding Publications

Law of the Fish

Wright Impressions

Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets

Many Voices Press

Collected here are poems about horse racing, mining, trash collecting, nuclear testing, firefighting, border crossings, buffalo hunting, surfing, logging, and sifting flour. In these pages you will visit flea markets, military bases, internment camps, reservations, funerals, weddings, rodeos, nursing homes, national parks, backyard barbecues, prisons, forests, meadows, rivers, and mountain tops. In your 'mind's eye,' you will meet a simple-minded girl who gets run over by a bull, two mothers watching a bear menacingly nosing toward unsuspecting children, and children who 'have yet to be toilet trained out of their souls.' You will learn to 'reach into the sacred womb, / grasp a placid hoof / and coax life toward this certain moment.' You'll teach poetry to third graders, converse with hitchhikers, lament for an incarcerated brother 'trying to fill the holes in his soul / with Camel cigarettes / and crude tattoos.' You will sit at the kitchen table where perhaps the world will end 'while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.' In the short time each of us has in this world, here s your chance to experience life widely and to reflect on your experiences deeply. -- Lowell Jaeger, Editor

New Poets of the American West

William Carlos Williams famously asserted, 'It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.'
 These Montana poems share the news we need to hear at this moment in our history, our shared lives. Reading this vivid, engaging, important collection, you will be brought into contact with the physical world time and again in often surprising ways. The wild startles and frightens, or it slows us down, makes us take notice, demands our focus. And the many Native American voices included here often summon a deeper spiritual connection to place, a sense of deep time that goes beyond the finite self or the pressing contemporary rush.
 How do Montanans endure, even flourish in this outlandishly wild place? Many poems show the work of living here, whether at a fast-food restaurant or a ranch or the writing table (the root of 'poetry' is making) -- work as survival, work as a practice that reveals unexpected talents, work as a means of making sense of our brief but promising lives.
 Love and humor also play their parts in dwelling in Montana, as evidenced by these poems. Consider the beauty of aging partners sharing their fully carnal love, or a young couple sharing their first kiss in a car, or the silliness and power of Coyote.
 These poems provide the news we need to thrive in Montana they are necessary as water, stunning as sky. Ken Egan, Executive Director of Humanities Montana 
Reader, the anthology you are holding in your hand is an effort to uncover hidden talent, to combine novice poets and acknowledged poets, to pay homage to Montana's many voices, many poems. With Poems Across the Big Sky II, Many Voices Press continues to serve Montana writers, bringing together diverse perspectives, life-styles, cultures, from experienced and inexperienced poets, from the young among us, and from our esteemed elders. Lowell Jaeger, Editor, Many Voices Press

Poems Across the Big Sky II: an anthology of Montana Poets

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How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past brings to vibrant life a post-World War II cultural landscape that underpins our national identity. Here is the bedrock family unit that persevered despite an incomprehensible Cold War backdrop: hard-working parents, kids shooting marbles for keeps, mill closures, baths in birth order, backseat battles, and paper routes. Lowell Jaeger brings great compassion, humor, and grit to his characters, and to their mid-century middle-American world drawn so expertly we can almost touch it, even as we recognize it as irretrievable. --Kathleen Flenniken, Washington State Poet Laureate, author of Plume

How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past

Grayson Books

For many years now I have enjoyed and admired the poetry of Lowell Jaeger. It reminds us gently, but with a moral and humane undercurrent, to 'put by all this / important nonsense and appreciate the small details of our lives,' to see them transformed as he does. Lowell Jaeger writes with a craft, clarity, and subtle intensity that has 'my battered earth/singing in tongues.' -- Christopher Buckley poet, author of Back Room at the Philosopher's Club

Driving The Back Road Home

The title for Lowell Jaeger's Or Maybe I Drift Off Alone comes from his poem, 'Four Chaplains,' a story of self-sacrifice in a hopeless situation. These poems puzzle over themes of duty and sacrifice within the give and take of ordinary lives. Those who tell the tales are sometimes generous and sometimes not, but they are unwaveringly honest. 'Let's assume there s a lesson/ in every small thing,' Jaeger writes in 'Follow Your Bliss?' This is a book of small things and lessons made eloquent by Jaeger's formal and lyrical skill. County library book sales, small town restaurants, road trips, and tow trucks all have a place in this volume whose ultimate theme is acceptance, forgiveness, and love. --Tami Haaland, former Montana Poet Laureate and author of When We Wake in the Night

Or Maybe I Drift Off Alone

Lowell Jaeger's Earth-blood &amp; Star-shine is an earthy book of praise poems. Humble and open-eyed, Jaeger gives us gray mornings and wayward deer, missing teeth and missing legs, swollen jowls and battered cars and amid all of these, there is a prevailing attitude of wonder, gratitude, and humor. The struggles and challenges we all experience and endure come off the page clear enough to hear, smell, and see. This collection adds up to model a way of living: don't do it fancy, but look, sweat, smile, and dance. -- Adam Davis, Executive Director of Oregon Humanities

Earth-blood & Star-shine

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