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Creature Way
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781952411298
Publisher: Spartan Press
Published: Sep 12 2020
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I once included Harley Elliott in a group I referred to as
Poets of the 6th Principle Meridian (the north-south line
used as a base for the Public Land Survey System that laid
out the hatch-work of green and brown quadrangles we see
as we fly over heartland America). He has lived for many
years within a stone's throw of that meridian and his poems
often speak as straight as a section-line road about the beating
hearts of prairie denizens. The forms of the poems on the
pages of Creature Way put me in mind of that characterization;
short line lengths make the poems on their pages into graphic
depictions of prairie perspectives; apparently simple words
put together in what appear to be simple ways are revealed
by attentive reading to express insightful truths as inter-
twined and intense as the tillering subsurface webs that
sustain prairie grasses through drought and fire and flood.
You owe yourself this conversation with Harley Elliott.-Roy Beckemeyer, Author of Mouth Brimming Over (Blue Cedar Press, 2019)
Few poets can meditate on a prairie scene (or any scene)
with Harley's wicked, intelligent wit. For instance, when
climbing through a barbwire fence following a lovely woman,
Harley writes, If she turns and / parts the wires for you /
call the preacher. That's all Harley: voice and smarts and
humility and romance, all at once.
-Kevin Rabas (Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-
2019), All That Jazz
-Steven Hind
Harley Elliott is the poet who made me want to be a poet.
His new book of revelations, Creature Way, continues to
interrogate the relationship between humans and other
living beings--including stones. The poem Turquoise
asserts, Some say it looks like sky. / Some say it is sky.
Artifice collapses. This is an essential book about the cosmos
from the poet who changed my life.-Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate
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