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Tender, moving, insigthful and humorous poems from the Iowa countryside and the author's Mennonite heritage.
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Keith Ratzlaff is Associate Professor of English at Central College in Pella, Iowa. His first book, "Man Under a Pear Tree" won the 1996 Anhinga Prize for poetry. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest which awarded him its 1996 Theodore Roethke Award, The Georgia Review, The New England Review and Threepenny Review. He is author of two chapbooks: Out Here (State Street Press, 1984), and New Winter Light (Nightshade Press, 1994).
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Across the Known World: Poems by Keith Ratzlaff
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Loess Hills Books - Mid-Prairie Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0931209749
ISBN 13: 9780931209741
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Seller: Pella Books, Pella, IA, U.S.A.
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VHS. Condition: Used. Trade paperback; gift message for 'Sheryl' with poet's signature; 44 pages. Book is fine: clean and tight, no creasing, appears unread. Seller Inventory # 201036
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Across the Known World
Published by
Loess Hills Books, Parkersburg, IA, 1997
ISBN 10: 0931209749
ISBN 13: 9780931209741
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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 47pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Handsome, tight first edition of this poet's second verse collection, nicely inscribed (not signed) by Ratzlaff in black ballpoint on title page: He crosses off his printed name and pens below it -- "Bill -- With admiration / for your haiku -- and / the fabulous teacher you / must be to have students / write like they do / UNI / 10/28/00." Recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), a poet especially known for haikus and long-time English professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Seller Inventory # 49005