The Bull Rider's Advice: New and Selected Poems (Prairie Plains Series)
Автор:David Allan Evans Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 95 ISBN: 0931170818 Book DescriptionAnew book of poetry by David Allan Evans is always an occasion for great celebration among readers of verse. And a collection that brings together twenty-seven new poems with three dozen selected from his four books already in print is especially welcome. The book includes a Foreword by Federal Judge Lawrence L. Piersol of Sioux Falls, and a Preface by the author about his career as a poet, especially his early, formative years in his hometown of Sioux City, Iowa, and the lasting effects those years have had on his life and his writing. In particular, many of the poems?selected and new?contain images and experiences that originated in a neighborhood on a railroad bluff, where Evans spent his early teen years. In his first poem from his first book, Train Windows, he writes about learning to pole vault in the vacant lot next to his house, and about being "committed to beginnings/or to nothing." These poems reflect not only Evans?passion for...
