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Poetry. In THE BARK OF THE DOG, Merrill Gilfillan summons lyric equivalents to landscapes and day shapes, drawing on off-hand song, bird's-eye bearings, and the vortical power of place names. Like Basho's haiku, Gilfillan's poems are anchored in time as well as space: an hour of the day, inflected by thunder or a pear, a month of the year, marked by the trees-in-wind or birds "moving through the mesh of the dangerous starlight." Whether in cas...

Poetry. With exuberance and economy, Merrill Gilfillan's UNDANCEABLE evokesthe landscape of the American West through the geographic word. Placenames, the texture of speech, and a certain aroma of nature permeatethese pages. Ever alert to unforeseen connections, Gilfillan followsboth eye and ear, his poems unfolding at the pace of consciousness. Be sure to check out Gilfillan's many other titles also available from SPD.

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Poetry. The red mavis, better known as the brown thrasher, sings a tireless improvised song, "varied ... usually pleasing, " lambent with "the gladness of the open air." In this volume, Merrill Gilfillan draws on casual rhymes and lost commonplaces, composing his poems en plein air. He ranges from the Carolina woods to the California coastline, and from "salted haikus" to prose meditations. Everywhere, his writing is marked by deftness, exuber...

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Early unpublished work and selections from long out of print books

The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills, the tombstone of Billy the Kid--stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled--in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado, cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple, the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers wh...

In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appreciation of, one of the most ignored and misunderstood areas of our vast American landscape. Like few American writers, Gilfillan has a deep feeling for, and understanding of the western grasslands, which give both dignity and a deep historical sense to our sometimes forgotten heartland.Gilfillan'...

Merrill Gilfillan projects an elegant cool, and ... a savage intensity.... He has the gift.--"Poetry Project Newsletter

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