Robley Wilson

Rachel Morgan

Henry Adams

James Russell Lowell

George Brinton McClellan Harvey

Charles Eliot Norton

Robert Dana

Grant Annis George Tracey

Vicente F. Gotera

J. D. Schraffenberger

Allen Thorndike Rice

Lloyd Stephens Bryce

Joseph Hilton Smyth

Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

The North American Review

"We do not pretend to have produced the writers included in this book. Their talent was inevitably shaped by the genes rattling in ancestral closets. We did give them a community in which to try out the quality of their gift.".

Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop

A Community of Writers

Poetry. Robert Dana's WHAT I THINK I KNOW is the fruit of a lifetime's quiet dedication to the art of poetry. These rigorously clear and deeply felt poems repay the closest reading. My hope is that this selection-chosen from over three decades of writing-will bring a host of new readers to a poet whose fullness of vision and strangely inward music represent, in fact, the true voice of poetry itself-Jay Parini. WHAT I THINK I KNOW is a lush and sensual re-evaluation of the world of objects-Today, everything takes/ the color of the sun. The air/ is filed and fine with it;/ the dead leaves, lumped/ and molten; flattened grass/ taking it like platinum (At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.C.)-validated throughout by a constant incarnation of the divine in the everyday. Dana was born in Boston in 1929, and has lived in Iowa for many years, where he is poet-in-residence at Cornell College.

New & Selected Poems

What I Think I Know

Poetry. "To begin at a margin and make oneself at home there has been Robert Dana's central method all along, as this fine collection of beach poems amply demonstrates. We're not born knowing how to love the world; we're born squalling. HELLO, STRANGER reminds us how much we can teach ourselves by strict attention and imagination" -William Matthews.

Beach Poems

Hello Stranger

Against the Grain is a collection of interviews with nine small press publishers, each one characterized by strength of resolve and a dedication to good books. Each press reflects, perhaps more directly than any large trade publisher could, the character of its founder; and each has earned its own place in the select group of important small presses in America. This collection is the first of its kind to explore with the publishers themselves the historical, aesthetic, practical, and personal impulses behind literary publishing. The publishers included are Harry Duncan (the Cummington Press), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights), David Godine (David R. Godine), Daniel Halpern (the Ecco Press), Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson (Copper Canyon Press), James Laughlin (New Directions), John Martin (Black Sparrow), and Jonathan Williams (the Jargon Society). Their passion for books, their belief in their individual visions of what publishing is or could be, their inspired mulishness crackle on the page.

Interviews with Maverick American Publishers

Against the Grain

Robert Dana

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