“In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the page is poetry’s equivalent to the enlightenment of the senses.”—Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews

“What is wonderful about a ‘produce wagon’ is its approachability, where we may select this fruit, that melon, to sample—and it’s all so good; otherwise, the produce would never have made it to the wagon. Roy Scheele’s Produce Wagon is like that. Every poem is delicious.”—Mark Sanders, Western American Literature

"Produce Wagon made me smile poem after poem and will bring up wonderful memories of family and love."—karla k. Morton, Roundup Magazine

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“Roy Scheele is a poet of deep observation and patient discernment. Exquisite in prosody and immaculate in precision, each poem is a hall of mirrors where memory and desire refract off the sharp edges of the observable world.”—Nina Murray, author of Alcestis in the Underworld

“A lifetime’s collection of small and precious things: the pinpoints of the senses, the topography of the soul, these myriad wonders of eloquent plainsong—Roy Scheele’s incomparable, revelatory landscapes of acuity and affection.”—Stephen Behrendt, author of Refractions and other collections

“Ted Kooser’s observation has it right: this gorgeous book is first and always music, but enriched by unforgettable imagery, compelling narrative, and ekphrasis. Scheele creates Nebraska—that former sea now prairie—as the setting of the poet’s life, here hauntingly worded, inhabited, and enlivened by intimate memory.”—Rhina P. Espaillat, author of And After All

The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience. Roy Scheele delves into his love for his wife in “Remembrances,” the opening poem from his first chapbook, and “Driving after Dark”; his fascination with the natural world in poems such as “How the Fox Got Away” and “Late Autumn Woods”; his appreciation of his family in “A Kitchen Memory” and “The Long Rise”; and his fondness for stories in “The Carny Circuit” and “In the Clear.” In these and the other poems in the collection, Scheele uses a variety of traditional verse forms as well as free verse and syllabics, carefully fitting the form of each poem to his subject matter. Though most of the poems are set in Nebraska and neighboring states, there is a universality to the subjects Scheele addresses. In these poems anywhere is everywhere.  
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The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience: the poet’s love for his wife, his love of nature, his love for the family he grew up in, and his love of stories.  
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Acknowledgments Introduction by Ted KooserFrom Accompanied, 1974 Remembrances The Welcome Mat Flowering Crab At Brim on the Little Blue Rock Openings A Metaphor for the Evening Star The Gap in the CedarFrom Noticing, 1979 Noticing A Kitchen Memory Fishing Blue Creek Poppies August Missing You What Swept by on a Winter Morning How the Fox Got AwayFrom The Sea-Ocean, 1981 The Sea-Ocean Spring Greens Nebraska U.S. 20 The Falls Focal Point A Turn in the Weather Winter Onions Remembering Anna Grandpa MacFrom Pointing Out the Sky, 1985 Making Change Saturday Mornings in the Radio Years The Catch The Farm in Arkansas Uncle Lou Sandhill Cranes Crossing the Field At the Drought’s Height Cisterns Re-Creation A Walk Round the Monastery Farm Changing the Flowers A Reverence Hoping for Raspberries Stairway Ansel Adams: Aspens, New Mexico, 1958 Lichens A Look Around Mid-August in the Mountains Lightning Bugs Floating on My Back in the Late AfternoonFrom The Voice We Call Human, 1991 Next Morning A Hot Afternoon with Nothing to Do Clare’s Last Poem Antique Wrenhouse Salt Valley Grange Snowfence in Late April Vietnam Memorial Pallbearing Heron Feeding in Rain ReinsFrom To See How It Tallies, 1995 Driving after Dark Lilac Storm Ritual Strayed Witness In Minnesota Passage Reflection To See How It Tallies VigilFrom Short Suite, 1997 Winter Cloud Cover Diviner Ripeness Is All, Is All October Retort Crowbar Deep Autumn First Bite The Hunter, HomeFrom From the Ground Up, 2000 At Summer’s Height, in Hungary January Primrose First Sighting Reckoning Back through California Planting a Dogwood Tent Light From the Ground Up Black FormFrom A Far Allegiance, 2010 Gong Fishheads X-Ray Fitting The Squarefold A Day at the Dentist’s Produce Wagon In the Near Distance Horse Creek Road Certificate The Carny Circuit Across the Sandhills A Freshening Woman Feeding Chickens Upriver Laid Down at Mesa Verde West of Vegas Under Magnification The Water Meadows, Winchester Near Dorchester, in Dorset, from the Train O’Keeffe’s Barn with SnowFrom The Sledders, 2016 Simple Gesture Discovering Gravity The Sledders In Possession Toward Evening Therefore Laughter Similitude For Instance Watching You Open Your New, Many-Hued UmbrellaThe Earth Coming Green Again: Uncollected Poems The Earth Coming Green Again A Counterpoise The Sparrow’s Way Dakota Burial Househunting In Blowing Snow The Hadderways Late Autumn Woods Noodler After Things Dancer Cover of DarknessNew Poems Wright Morris: Clothing on Hooks, The Home Place Dale Nichols: Morning Chore Lunching with Friends Salon Noir, Niaux In the Clear Climbing Rose Fern The Long Rise Flat Water Four Observations The Sign Said Grounders Seventh-Grade Art Remember Me Kingfisher Lowbush Clusters At the Station
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781496230577
Publisert
2022-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Nebraska Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Roy Scheele is professor emeritus of English at Doane University. He is the author of a dozen chapbooks and collections, including A Far Allegiance (Backwaters Press, 2010) and The Sledders. His verse and prose poems have been frequently anthologized, most notably in Strong Measures and Models of the Universe.