{"product_id":"creature-way-paperback","title":"Creature Way - 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\u003eHarley Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I once included Harley Elliott in a group I referred to as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poets of the 6th Principle Meridian\" (the north-south line \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eused as a base for the Public Land Survey System that laid \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eout the hatch-work of green and brown quadrangles we see \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas we fly over heartland America). He has lived for many \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears within a stone's throw of that meridian and his poems \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoften speak as straight as a section-line road about the beating \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehearts of prairie denizens. The forms of the poems on the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epages of Creature Way put me in mind of that characterization; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshort line lengths make the poems on their pages into graphic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edepictions of prairie perspectives; apparently simple words \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eput together in what appear to be simple ways are revealed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby attentive reading to express insightful truths as inter- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etwined and intense as the tillering subsurface webs that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esustain prairie grasses through drought and fire and flood. \u003c\/p\u003eYou owe yourself this conversation with Harley Elliott.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Roy Beckemeyer, Author of \u003cem\u003eMouth Brimming \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Over\u003c\/em\u003e (Blue Cedar Press, 2019)\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few poets can meditate on a prairie scene (or any scene) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Harley's wicked, intelligent wit. For instance, when \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclimbing through a barbwire fence following a lovely woman, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarley writes, \"If she turns and \/ parts the wires for you \/ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecall the preacher.\" That's all Harley: voice and smarts and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehumility and romance, all at once.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Kevin Rabas (Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2019), \u003cem\u003eAll That Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Harley Elliott is a homespun philosopher with a gifted earand the heart of a laughing scavenger.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Steven Hind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Harley Elliott is the poet who made me want to be a poet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis new book of revelations, \u003cem\u003eCreature Way, \u003c\/em\u003e continues to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterrogate the relationship between humans and other \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliving beings--including stones. The poem \"Turquoise\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003easserts, Some say it looks like sky. \/ Some say it is sky.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtifice collapses. This is an essential book about the cosmos \u003c\/p\u003efrom the poet who changed my life. \"\u003cbr\u003e -Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354161561849,"sku":"9781952411298","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QPmOpo9CSR9781952411298.webp?v=1769832868","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/creature-way-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}