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Odometer Poetry by Dwaine Speiker Rogue Faculty Press is proud to present Odometer, the latest collection of poems by Nebraska native Dwaine Spieker! In Odometer, Dwaine Spieker's fourth book of poetry, Spieker aims his gift for writing frank, emotionally potent poetry down the backroads of the Nebraska he knows best. The result is a collection of poems that masterfully documents the loves and griefs that fuel the human heart. In this collection, Spieker once again employs a brief yet resonant style in which everyday images lead to stunning conclusions: a semi waiting to be loaded with grain becomes a metaphor for spiritual patience; A thrift store flannel becomes a metaphor for mortality. With each image, Spieker reveals for us another mile of the world he knows, inviting us along to see if we can recognize ourselves. Not only are the poems in Odometer well crafted, they radiate that signature humanity that makes Spieker's work so popular. In the words of poet Shannon Vesely, "Spieker celebrates a world that 'abides and provides,' one in which the small and ordinary matter deeply…he invites us to remember and re-learn this truth, riding a combine, walking along a river, lying in a hammock, or looking over a field of wheat, Spieker offers a 'Samaritan hand' in a broken world." If you love poetry that moves through the local to the universal in crystal-clear, accessible language, then check out Odometer today. Get your copy of Odometer here! |
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The Way of Things poems by Shannon Vesely WINNER OF THE 2022 NEBRASKA BOOK AWARD! “It's the way of things,” writes Shannon Vesely, “the day refusing to die/germinating in the ash heap/and promising—like a sleeping seed—/its return.” In a calm, clear voice, The Way Of Things provides readers with images that heal and restore. Full of hope and gratefulness, wrought with elegant simplicity, this collection is a gift, a treasure of a first book by an important poet. What Critics Are Saying About The Way Of Things: “As with all the best literature, The Way of Things invites us to 'push aside the green curtain of nature' so that we each might 'try on different lives.' Shannon Vesely writes with her heart’s nib so that we might dance rose-hipped where apple blossoms pink the day. She is also the rare writer who has the courage to dream of renaming the finest flowers whose titles festoon our minds with monikers we too easily accept as settled. "Instead of weeping under willows, these wonderful poems leave us reveling in the mysterious cycle of life. Traveling both back and forward across these landscapes, we meet pioneer women who endure men who sit and sop. These women’s stillbirths (and bookless years) remind us of so much more than tragedy overcome: as John Muir once wrote, 'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.' It is the way of change to make our lives rejoin— not separate. Peek in and see. Every page offers an ever needed 'shot of chlorophyll to the heart.' Swing through these splendid verses with careful eyes: they’ll 'take your gut by surprise.' Jason Miller North Carolina State University, author of the biography Langston Hughes (Critical Lives) Order your copy of The Way of Things today! |
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Homing: The Collected Works of Don Welch
Winner of the 2017 Nebraska Book Award
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Selected by award winning editor Dwaine Spieker and Don himself, this stunning collection of poems spans over forty years of Welch's award-winning verse.
Here are what critics say about Don Welch's HOMING:
“W. H. Auden once wrote ‘A poet’s hope: to be/like some
valley cheese, /local, but prized everywhere.’ This is about
as precise a statement as one could ever make of Don
Welch, the senior poet of Nebraska and of the Great
Plains. Yet Don has always been a modest man, content to
immerse himself in his first affections: family, homing
pigeons, the Platte River and the birds that brand the flight
path so uniquely, and writing an enduring poetry that never
pretends to be anything but well-made. Those of us who
have read his work faithfully for forty years recognize the
magnitude of his contribution to the local, but we are also
painfully aware his contribution to American letters should
be celebrated in great measure. Don never sought a
national audience. Rather, like the faith he has in his
homing pigeons, he sent his poems to the world, hoping
they (and not himself) would be prized and return to
readers the spirit of the local that suffices above all."
—Mark E Sanders, publisher of Sandhills Press, author of “Conditions of Grace:
New and Selected Poems”
Homing: The Collected Works of Don Welch
Winner of the 2017 Nebraska Book Award
ORDER YOURS HERE!
Selected by award winning editor Dwaine Spieker and Don himself, this stunning collection of poems spans over forty years of Welch's award-winning verse.
Here are what critics say about Don Welch's HOMING:
“W. H. Auden once wrote ‘A poet’s hope: to be/like some
valley cheese, /local, but prized everywhere.’ This is about
as precise a statement as one could ever make of Don
Welch, the senior poet of Nebraska and of the Great
Plains. Yet Don has always been a modest man, content to
immerse himself in his first affections: family, homing
pigeons, the Platte River and the birds that brand the flight
path so uniquely, and writing an enduring poetry that never
pretends to be anything but well-made. Those of us who
have read his work faithfully for forty years recognize the
magnitude of his contribution to the local, but we are also
painfully aware his contribution to American letters should
be celebrated in great measure. Don never sought a
national audience. Rather, like the faith he has in his
homing pigeons, he sent his poems to the world, hoping
they (and not himself) would be prized and return to
readers the spirit of the local that suffices above all."
—Mark E Sanders, publisher of Sandhills Press, author of “Conditions of Grace:
New and Selected Poems”