{"product_id":"selected-poems-1965-2000-9780976161226","title":"Selected Poems 1965-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be.\"--Tom Raworth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The strongest poems feature a solitary, omniscient observer responding to the sky and land. . . . Deceptively simple, these poems reveal new beauties with each reading.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Go to New York and you'll be famous in five years,\" Ted Berrigan told Merrill Gilfillan in 1969. That time in New York gave rise to Gilfillan's first two books through Berkeley's Blue Wind Press--\u003ci\u003eSkyliner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Creature\u003c\/i\u003e. The next 15 years included more poetry and two award-winning prose collections: \u003ci\u003eChokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), which won the Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and \u003ci\u003eMagpie Rising\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), which won the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects material from Gilfillan's books of poetry up through 1999's \u003ci\u003eSatin Street\u003c\/i\u003e and swatches of unpublished work from 1965 to 2000.Gilfillan's observations, etymologies, and riffs on classical and modern forms are constructed by equal parts naturalist and aesthete. He employs a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the literary and visual arts, philosophical treatises, musical forms, the natural world, and the everyday language that gets spoke along rivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerrill Gilfillan\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ohio in 1945 and raised there. He attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1967, where he won the Major Hopwood Prize for poetry in his senior year. He attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop for two years, studying with Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo, and George Starbuck, among others. He lived and worked in New York City for eight years, and then moved to Colorado, where he wrote feature stories for Boulder and Denver newspapers. He makes his home in Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-125000\"\u003eMerrill Gilfillan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adventures in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.58w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780976161226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0976161222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilfillan is the author of ten books of poetry, and several books of nonfiction essays on the Western United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adventures in Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44543802835181,"sku":"9780976161226","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ba00040b-8967-4068-94e5-2a06bf8c6d1e.jpg?v=1701547297","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-1965-2000-9780976161226","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}