Pfefferle, W. T.

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Places of the Heart: Poets on Place
interviews with many poets on role of place in their work
Terrific visits with some of America's finest poets
Cool Reading.
A Fascinating Book

Poets On Place
W. T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: Utah State University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0874215978

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Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems.

The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C. D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.

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Places of the Heart: Poets on Place.......2006-09-26

A friend put this book in my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found "Poets on Place" so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on.

It's an attractive work replete with compementary elements to the main dish of the interviews. Here we have an on-going mystery story: what will Pfefferle and his wife Beth make of thier lives after life on the road? What is life on the road like? There's enough of this to give spice to a full meal of photos, impressionistic portraits of the poets and their surroundings to give a context to the interviews, and the wonderful poems to show the fruits of place and the source of the discussion.

The foreword by David St. John is a treasure of wisdom;I draw many insights from it.

--Janet Grace Riehl, author Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

interviews with many poets on role of place in their work.......2005-05-01

Asking variations on the basic question of what role place has in the poetry of more than 45 contemporary America poets, Pfefferle elicits a rich and revealing variety of responses. Many of the responses angle into the explicit and implicit influences of the region a particular poet is from, such as Florida, the South in general, or New England. Some poets who have moved to one or more different places reflect on changes in impressions and attachments to place. Nikki Giovanni, Peter Cooley, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright are among the poets whose names will be recognized by many. There's snapshots of some of the poets, or a photo of a local scene. And many of the numerous poets supply a poem illustrating what they have to say about the role of place in their work.

Terrific visits with some of America's finest poets.......2005-04-23

Pfefferle has got it right here, with just the perfect balance between the life-on-the-road business and the careful, thoughtful, and always engaging interviews with terrific, curious, cagey American poets. "Place" is a wonderful addition to the body of writing on and about poetry, makes a marvelous classroom addition, and is great and satisfying reading page-by-page. A tour de force performance by all involved!

Cool Reading........2005-04-18

One of the poets within these pages recently read at a nearby college (Scott Carins of Columbia, MO), and he talked briefly about the book. I picked it up locally and have used it to guide me to a wealth of poets I'd never heard of: Mark Wunderlich, Denise Duhamel, Richard Shelton, and David St. John. The book contains not just more than 60 interviews but also a travel-log of Pfefferle's trip. It makes for good reading for boomers like me who want to ditch it all and travel the country. Use it as a map to towns and poets.

A Fascinating Book.......2005-03-30

I don't usually write reviews, but I was so taken by W.T. Pfefferle's Poets on Place that I felt compelled to praise it here. It provides a portrait of American poetry at the beginning of the 21st century that should be interesting and useful to both poets and scholars alike, and also a fascinating and beautifully understated story of a quest to find something of life beyond the ordinary, something beyond the cliches and stereotypes we often use to define ourselves. Much of the beauty of the book is due to Pfefferle's skill as a writer, and his own deep understanding of poetry makes the interviews read like intelligent conversations between equals. A great book.

The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale

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Intense and Heartbreaking

The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale
W. T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: NFSPS Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976700654

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Pop Thorndale, he of limited ambition and modest dreams, finds himself at 50. With no trophies to show for his life, he wonders about the point of it all. Then three things happen in the space of a year, and those events drive him into his basement to write his memoir ("just memory with a little switch of letters.") This faux memoir in poems follows Pop through meditations on family, love, and death, all of it infused with humor and empathy.

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Intense and Heartbreaking.......2007-06-25

This collection of pomes reads like a memoir, a novel. Pop Thorndale is a likeable oaf who suddenly realizes his life is unremarkable. But in doing so he makes this heroic book from it all. An exhilirating read.

Writing that Matters: A Rhetoric for the New Classroom

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Cool new book.

Writing that Matters: A Rhetoric for the New Classroom
W. T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0138620202

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Cool new book........1999-08-30

My teacher made us buy it, but it's a great book. Pfeferle really knows his stuff. Helping me become a better writer.

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New Neighborhoods
W.T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: Morris Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 1575027240

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Plug in: The Guide to Music on the Net
Ted Gurley , and W. T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Ptr
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ASIN: 0132410508

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Writing That Matters: A Rhetoric for the New Classroom
W. T. Pfefferle
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ1Z9M

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