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This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of the last half century. Collecting work from limited editions and hard-to-find books, along with Kloefkorn's most anthologized poems, Swallowing the Soap is an indispensable one-volume compendium of the work of a major American poet. "These poems aim for nothing less than the impossible: to understand what it means to be alive and human on this moveable earth," writes the editor, Ted Genoways. Swallowing the Soap is filled with the panoramic landscapes of Kansas and Nebraska, the stories of the rough and tender people who live there, and the moments of heartache, brutality, loss, and redeeming joy that shape their lives. It offers a vision, at once intimate and expansive, of the world of the Great Plains as seen by one of its most eloquent poets.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Swallowing the Soap
• Subtitle: New and Selected Poems
• Author: William Kloefkorn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9780803234055
• ISBN: 0803234058
• ID: 04923063
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 625 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2010

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