Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains
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The Lakota word for bluebird, writes High Plains poet Gilfillan, is a verb meaning something like "to pass by all in blue." Gilfillan turns the endless hazy vistas of Wyoming, Colorado, and the Dakotas into verbs all their own, populating them with crows, magpies, meadowlarks, passing clouds--and always with stories derived from history and from his own travels. He is especially drawn to buttes, river bottoms, and sandy ridges, the difficult landscapes that "house and shelter the talisman and nurturing myth, the taproot metaphysics of any geography." Visiting places like Turtle Mountain, Devil's Lake, and Heart River, Gilfillan offers fine tribute to a little-heralded corner of the world. --Gregory McNamee
About the Author
Merrill Gilfillan is the author of "Magie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains" which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for non fiction, "Sworn Before Cranes," a collection of short stories that won the Ohio Book Award and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and, most recently, "Burnt House to Paw Paw: Applachian Notes," along with some half-dozen books of poetry. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains,Merrill Gilfillan,Johnson Books,1555662277,American - General,Essays,High Plains (U.S.),Literary Criticism,Natural History,Nature
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