A Gift of Nerve: Poems 1966-1977

Literature & Fiction

George, Emery

Poetry

Kylix Pr

In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional small town of Alliance, Illinois.  Their voices, individual and yet familiar, describe the ordered simplicity of life in the American small town during the second half of the twentieth century.  Dave Etter's themes and images come from the very lifeblood of prairie Illinois-rivers, trees, cornfields, wildlife, county fairs, railroads and, always, the people and the ever-changing seasons.  Deceptively, invitingly simple on their surface, Etter's poems reveal upon careful examination a remarkable psychological insight and a careful craftsmanship.  Alliance, Illinois is truly one of the great monuments of rural American literature.

Alliance, Illinois: Poems

Etter, Dave

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