New & Selected Poems: 1980-1999 - Softcover

Low, Dr Denise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976177366 ISBN 13: 9780976177364

Publisher: Mammoth, 2007

Synopsis

Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009 Denise Low's most complete collection of lyrical verse. Low's concerns with cultural sustainability in the Great Plains region encompasses geological history, the West, gardens, indigenous plants and animals, and more. Fellow Kansas poet William Stafford praised Low for her use of "so many good words in diligent pursuit of accuracy." Iowa poet laureate Robert Dana wrote: No one understands better than Densie Low the efect of Midwestern vistas of time and space." Diane Glancy writes, "Denise Low has a voice informed and shaped by the land."

About this title

About the Author:

Denise Low has published 20 books of poetry and essays. Among her publications are Words of a Prairie Alchemist (Ice Cube Press, 2006), Ghost Stories of the New West (Woodley Memorial Press, 2010), and Langston Hughes in Lawrence (Mammoth Press, 2004). Most recently, she is the author of NATURAL THEOLOGIES: ESSAYS ABOUT LITERATURE OF THE NEW MIDDLE WEST (The Backwaters Press, 2011). She has served on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, where she was also president and conference chair. She has taught at Haskell Indian Nations University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Richmond. In addition to being the Kansas Poet Laureate from 2007-2009, she is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Newberry Library, Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kansas Arts Council, Kansas Center for the Book, and the Roberts Foundation National Writing Competition. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mammoth
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0976177366
• ISBN 13: 9780976177364
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128