{"product_id":"north-of-crivitz-paperback","title":"North of Crivitz - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Holinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever solace that these taut poems deliver shoulders as much salt as sugar. Here, Holinger's naturalist's eye for redemptive detail confronts the realist's doggedness for a cold-eyed fact. Within these lines, one hears Emerson and Frost wrestling in verdant woods north of Crivitz, the former erecting his spire of \"spiritual facts\" while the latter's muddy boot kicks at footings bracing the whole fa ade. Amid this fervent tussle, the poet hankers for what might \"redeem\" both himself and the beloved topography he inhabits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kevin Stein, Ph.D., Illinois Poet Laureate 2003-2017, Caterpillar Professor and Director of Bradley University's Creative Writing Program, author of seven books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eWrestling Li Po for the Remote.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Holinger's\u003ci\u003e North of Crivitz \u003c\/i\u003einvites the reader into a geography and a life both proudly regional and powerfully resonant. Holinger accurately differentiates the natural lineaments of the rural Midwest, but equally important to him is the \"treeless Midwest\" the continual changes wrought by its human-built environment, which mirror the poet's own changes, losses, and appreciations over time. Speaking with diction \"thick in the vowels \/ and consonants of the Upper Midwest,\" Holinger makes a local habitation lyrical-like Frost before him, whose \u003ci\u003eNorth of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e echoes in this book's very title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Christina Pugh, author of the 2019 Juniper Prize for Poetry \u003ci\u003e(Stardust Media)\u003c\/i\u003e and four other books. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. \u003c\/i\u003eAwarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, she is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a consulting editor for\u003ci\u003e Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fine poems where a man finds the way into a place where deer incite him to dance with them, wandering to ponds when days give back to the night, to a woods on County C where stillness is untranslatable yet, often with a fishing pole in hand, nearly always with the past as companion-brother, father, grandparent, wife-Richard Holinger gives us a map to the interior and the way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Carol Frost, author of ten books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eAlias City. \u003c\/i\u003eRecipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is featured in four Pushcart Prize anthologies and is Chair of English at Rollins College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728478695731,"sku":"9781952326387","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VzBsSnRNYW5HL2NwMGxQSlNTME4wdz09.webp?v=1763784005","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/north-of-crivitz-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}