Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems

This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together...
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Author: William Kloefkorn
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Language: English
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Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems by Kloefkorn, William

Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems

$74.94

Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems

$74.94
Author: William Kloefkorn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of the last half century. Collecting work from limited editions and hard-to-find books, along with Kloefkorn's most anthologized poems, Swallowing the Soap is an indispensable one-volume compendium of the work of a major American poet. "These poems aim for nothing less than the impossible: to understand what it means to be alive and human on this moveable earth," writes the editor, Ted Genoways. Swallowing the Soap is filled with the panoramic landscapes of Kansas and Nebraska, the stories of the rough and tender people who live there, and the moments of heartache, brutality, loss, and redeeming joy that shape their lives. It offers a vision, at once intimate and expansive, of the world of the Great Plains as seen by one of its most eloquent poets.

Author: William Kloefkorn
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.08w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780803234055


Award: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner

About the Author
William Kloefkorn (1932-2011) was an emeritus professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University and Nebraska's state poet. He is the author of many volumes of poetry and a four-volume memoir: This Death by Drowning, Restoring the Burnt Child, At Home on This Moveable Earth, and Breathing in the Fullness of Time, all published by the University of Nebraska Press. Ted Genoways is the editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and the author of Bullroarer: A Sequence. He has edited numerous books, including The Selected Poems of Miguel Hern?ndez.

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