About the Book
Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St.
John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C. D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.
Table of Contents:
Foreword 000 Introduction 000 Wherein We Begin Life on the Road 1 James Harms - Morgantown, West Virginia 000 Landscape as the Latest Diet (Southern California); 000 David Citino - Columbus, Ohio 000 Through a Glass, Darkly 000 Martha Collins - Oberlin, Ohio 000 Linda Gregerson - Ann Arbor, Michigan 000 Richard Tillinghast - Ann Arbor, Michigan 000 Wake Me in South Galway 000 Winnie Cooper 000 Orlando Ricardo Menes - South Bend, Indiana 000 Mark Strand - Chicago, Illinois 000 A Morning 000 Karen Volkman - Chicago, Illinois 000 Lisa Samuels - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 000 Marvin Bell - Iowa City, Iowa 000 Port Townsend, Washington, Waterside 000 Dust, Corn, and Popcorn People 000 Michael Dennis Browne - Minneapolis, Minnesota 000 from At the Cabin 000 David Allan Evans - Brookings, South Dakota 000 David Romtvedt - Buffalo, Wyoming 000 With Caitlin, Age 8, Building a Qhuinzee for a Winter Night 000 The West 000 Sandra Alcosser - Lolo, Montana 000 Mare Frigoris 000 Robert Wrigley - Moscow, Idaho 000 Ordinary Magic 000 Nance Van Winckel - Liberty Lake, Washington 000 Awaiting the Return Ferry 000 Christopher Howell - Spokane, Washington 000 Wherein the Author Ruminates on RV Life 000 Mark Halperin - Ellensburg, Washington 000 Accident 000 Jana Harris - Sultan, Washington 000 Mr. Elija Welch, First Planting 000 Sam Hamill - Port Townsend, Washington 000 The Day I Did Winnie Cooper Wrong 000 Barbara Drake - Yamhill, Oregon 000 from The Man from the Past Visits the Present 000 Floyd Skloot - Amity, Oregon 000 A Warming Trend 000 Suddenly in California 000 Ralph Angel - South Pasadena, California 000 Carol Muske-Dukes - Los Angeles, California 000 Twin Cities 000 David St. John - Venice, California 000 Dijon 000 Sharon Bryan - San Diego, California 000 Death Valley 000 Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, Nevada 000 A Parish in the Bronx 000 Alberto Rios - Chandler, Arizona 000 Richard Shelton - Tucson, Arizona 000 Local Knowledge 000 Jane Miller - Tucson, Arizona 000 #15 from A Palace of Pearls 000 New Year 000 William Wenthe - Lubbock, Texas 000 Alien 000 Naomi Shihab Nye - San Antonio, Texas 000 Pause 000 Peter Cooley - Jefferson, Louisiana 000 Miller Williams - Fayetteville, Arkansas 000 RV Life 2 000 Beth Ann Fennelly - Oxford, Mississippi 000 from The Kudzu Chronicles 000 Natasha Trethewey - Decatur, Georgia 000 South 000 Denise Duhamel - Hollywood, Florida 000 Valentines, Hollywood Beach 000 Campbell McGrath - Miami Beach, Florida 000 Terrance Hayes - Columbia, South Carolina 000 Threshold 000 Alan Shapiro - Chapel Hill, North Carolina 000 Bower 000 Nikki Giovanni - Blacksburg, Virginia 000 Charles Wright - Charlottesville, Virginia 000 High Country Spring 000 Choosing 000 Rita Dove - Charlottesville, Virginia 000 The House on Bishop Street 000 Henry Taylor - Bethesda, Maryland 000 Harvest 000 Dave Smith - Baltimore, Maryland 000 Gaines Mill Battlefield 000 Nicole Cooley - Glen Ridge, New Jersey 000 Unfinished Sketch: Green Sandbox Winter Sky 000 David Lehman - New York, New York 000 April 9 000 The City So Nice They Named It Twice 000 Lucie Brock-Broido - New York, New York 000 Michael S. Harper - Providence, Rhode Island 000 C. D. Wright - Barrington, Rhode Island 000 from The Ozark Odes 000 Mark Wunderlich - Provincetown, Massachusetts 000 Elevation 000 James Cummins - Cincinnati, Ohio 000 Spring Comes to Hamilton Avenue 000 Frederick Smock - Louisville, Kentucky 000 Heron 000 Mark Jarman - Nashville, Tennessee 000 Nashville Moon 000 Carl Phillips - St. Louis, Missouri 000 Driveway 000 Scott Cairns - Columbia, Missouri 000 Mud Trail 000 Elizabeth Dodd - Manhattan, Kansas 000 Sonnet, Almost 000 Jonathan Holden - Manhattan, Kansas 000 Pigs 000 Bin Ramke - Denver, Colorado 000 Kenneth Brewer - Logan, Utah 000 Paisley Rekdal - Salt Lake City, Utah 000 Ode 000 Wherein the Author Considers the End 000 Endpiece 000 Gas Giant 000
