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Of Greg Pape's latest book of poetry, American Flamingo (Southern Illinois Press, 2005), Sandra Alcosser writes, "You want to be the poet's friend, because he makes you cry and laugh, to share his shadow and nuanced eye as he bends above a small spider that walks inside the snow track of a deer--within the shadow of the poet, that spider pauses. In the manner of James Wright and Horace before him, Greg Pape celebrates the delicate and daily exchange living beings make with each other. This is a beautifully compassionate book." Meanwhile, Garrett Hongo declares that "my happiness is in the poetry of Greg Pape. He's Lorca's demon in Frisco Jeans and a Chino shirt, praying on a Tejano squeezebox--a poet of work and cantinas, love of place and family, adn a spirit that redeems all sorrow in its plenitude. I can as easily do without Greg Pape's poems as the high deserts and mountains of which he writes can do without rain and lightning. His American Flamingo is pure splendor."
Professor Pack's new book, Composing Voices: A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues, was published in September by Lost Horse Press. Pamela White Hadas writes that "Pack's new volume...is a fabulously expanded version of his 1984 book, Faces in a Single Tree. In each of the poems a single person is talking to one other person to whom he is intimately related, creating deep dramatic tension: a father talking to a bereaved daughter or puzzled son; a sister confronting a sister gone astray or a brother to whom she is confessing her compromised pregnancy; husbands and wives, old and young, reviewing some crisis of their lives together. Combined with these human dramas are the dramas of nature. Pack inherits Robert Frost's sensitivity to the minutiae of spectacle and evolution, the mysteries of God and Darwin's theories. He regards these with humor and compassion. And, perhaps miraculously, but surely most wisely, he does it all within the regulations and beauties of blank verse."
Professor Klink has had, in the last year, eighteen poems accepted for publication, in such venues as TriQuarterly, Boston Review, New Orleans Review, and Versal. Three poems -- "Excerpt from a Secret Prophecy," "Open Land," "(What) War" -- were accepted for publication in Contemporary Northwest Poets, edited by David Biespiel, forthcoming in 2006 from Oregon State Press. Four of her poems will be published in 2006 in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, edited by Cate Marvin and Michael Dumanis, through Sarabande Books. Eleven of Klink's poems that were accepted last year for publication appeared in print this year, in journals such as Gulf Coast, The Canary, and Harvard Review, and two anthologies that include her work, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, and Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, were published as well.
Professor Volkman has, in the last year, published fifteen poems, in venues such as The Paris Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares and Crowd and No. An additional seven poems are forthcoming.
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