Bøger af Merrill Gilfillan

A selection from fifty years of Merrill Gilfillan's lyrical and vivid poetryMerrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems draws from more than a dozen volumes since his first book appeared in 1970, concluding with three short "poetic diaries" in the tradition of Japanese haibun. Wistful, joyful, resonant with "Season through place, / Place in season, in place," the hundred various poems-landscapes, epistles, "tunes meant for whistling"-are propelled throughout by affinity, reflection, and requital. />/>I think of you/>as the tarts come out />of the oven-Ohio butternuts />from Ohio butternut />trees-and last summer's />ash seeds rattle />in the wind beyond/>the window: small />bat-of-the-eye pleasures />of winter. Deep. Distilled.

Merrill Gilfillan is the author of five books of poems, Skyliner (Blue Wind), To Creature (Blue Wind, 1975), Light Years: Selected Early Work (1977, Blue Wind), River Through Rivertown (1982, The Figures), and Satin Street (1997, Moyer Bell). He is perhaps most well known for his books of prose essays that include Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains (1998, Johnson Books), which won the Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Grasshopper Falls (2000, Hanging Loose Press), and Magpie Rising (2000, Hard Press), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Gilfillan lives in Boulder, Colorado.

A collection of essays that feature the rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; and, an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway, under heavy guard, in Weld County, Colorado.