Home Burial - (Lannan Literary Selections) by Michael McGriff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Work has never been a literary theme park for me--it's what I know and have known."--Michael McGriff<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor.--<i>Third Coast</i></p><p>There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place--not as mere setting, but as a distinct element of his verse.--Gently Read Literature</p><p>Michael McGriff's second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and illustrates life in a rural community in the Pacific Northwest. Whether tender or hard-hitting, McGriff juxtaposes natural images of deep forests, creeks, coyotes, and crows against the harsher oil-grease realities of blue-collar life, creating poems that read like folk tales about the people working in grain mills, forests, and factories.</p><p><b>New Civilian</b></p><p><i>The new law says you can abandon your child<br>in an emergency room, <br>no questions asked. The young father<br>carries the sleeping boy<br>through the hospital doors.<br>Later, alone, parked at the boat basin, <br>he takes a knife from his pocket, <br>cuts an unfiltered cigarette in two, <br>lights the longer half in his mouth.<br>He was a medic in the war.<br>In his basement are five bronze eagles<br>that once adorned the walls<br>of a dictator's palace.</i></p><p><b>Michael McGriff</b> attended the University of Oregon; the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in creative writing; and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow. He is the co-founding editor and publisher of Tavern Books and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael McGriff: Michael McGriff is the author of Dismantling the Hills, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize in 2007. He has been a Michener Fellow, and received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. <p/>
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