Thicket IV

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Dear Aldo Leopold

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Neck of the World

May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 11, with foreward by Alice Quinn. Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek\u27s work: Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/swenson_awards/1008/thumbnail.jp

Witness: The Modern Writer as Witness

Editor\u27s Note [Excerpt] The United States, as a society, is on the brink of profound and positive change. Demographically and culturally, things are improving, and the reason is obvious to people who study history: Conflict pushes us to be better, to strive for principled goals. Consider the inspired eco-advocacy of Greta Thunberg. Or the swearing in of most diverse class of lawmakers in history into the 116th Congress. Or billionaire Robert F. Smith’s pledge to pay off every Morehouse College (in Atlanta, Georgia) student’s debt. Indeed, there are many good people helping and great moments happening in spite of a bleak 24-hour news cycle designed to ruin happiness and to limit our understanding of our human potential. We at Witness see this yearning for transformation in the works we selected. The doorway must be crossed, and the voices and characters we featured in our Winter 2019 issue stand at the vestibule, ready for the light to warm them, primed to fight for that necessary illumination.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/witness/1000/thumbnail.jp

Neck of the World

May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 11, with foreward by Alice Quinn. Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek's work: ""Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold

Neck of the world: poems

Foreword / Alice Quinn -- 1. Speakmaple -- A Mouthful of Crickets -- A Bear in His Madness -- Happy -- Within Within -- Winnowing -- Neck of the Woods -- Dreamer in Winter -- Donnybrook -- Vows of Babel -- Stormdweller -- Toyhouse -- Grackles -- Silence Journal -- During Fever -- Blood Realm -- 2. Genius of Frogs -- Hibernacula -- Outside the Horse -- Prayer for Fall -- Thieves -- Dust Merchant -- Raker -- Sycamore -- Rainlegs -- Book of Letters Reversed -- Ten Cents Worth of Fog -- North of North -- Fishkill -- Primer -- Radio -- 3. Helmet in the Glade -- Foglifter -- Where Your Victory -- Nightyard -- First Lady -- Cathode -- Host -- Neck of the World -- Hooded Merganser -- Bait -- Tickets for a Fire -- Returning the Ghost -- Crested Daughter -- Decomp -- Mane and Claw -- Human -- Astral