From Out of Nowhere

From Out of Nowhere explores how cities have changed the landscape for prairie poetry. The poems find the intersections where nature speaks through cowboys, hunters, fishers, farmers, and businessmen. These voices are captured in cityscapes where they mutate, harmonize, and resonate to give new meaning to old turns of phrase, calls to actions, and directions home. The characters here find themselves in new, sometimes confusing roles: the cowboy wakes up a street person, hunters and fishers ...