About the Author

David Pichaske holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches at Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota. His other books include:

• Beowulf to Beatles and Beyond: The Varieties of Poetry
• Poland in Transition: 1989-1991 (electronic version online)
• Late Harvest: Recent Rural American Writing
• Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People
• UBO3: A Season in Outer Mongolia
• Hallelujah Anyway
• A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town
• The Father Poems
• Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place
• Song of the North Country: A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan
• The Pigeons of Buchenau and Other Stories
• Crying in the Wilderness: Essays Public and Personal
• Here I Stand: The Education of David Pichaske
• Bones of Bricks and Mortar

On the web: davidpichaske.com