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Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems
Kloefkorn, William. Ed(S): Genoways, Ted
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Description for Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems
paperback. A collection of selected poems from Nebraska poet laureate William Kloefkorn Editor(s): Genoways, Ted. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bison Books United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803234055
SKU
V9780803234055
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About Kloefkorn, William. Ed(S): Genoways, Ted
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems
"There is always the rock; there is always Kloefkorn: generous, honest, ornery, clear-eyed. I invite you to read this very significant book, No. 2 pencil in hand, and mark your favorites."—Marge Saiser, Lincoln Journal Star "Kloefkorn's ear for the midwestern rural vernacular is pitch-perfect, and his lines of dialogue and bits of country speech are alternately hilarious and deeply poignant."—Michael Sowder, ... Read more