Moments of Delicate Balance

by Kloefkorn, William; Lee, David

• ISBN13: 9780916727789
• ISBN10: 0916727785
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Wings Press

Summary

A collection featuring the works of two renowned poet laureates, William Kloefkorn and David Lee, this volume offers an intelligent introspection to rural life. Truly western writers in love with the land, both poets bring their highly literate acumen to bear upon both the mundane and the magnificent. Reflective, irreverent, and funny, this compilation also plays with the idea of balance--past and future, lyric and narrative, life and death.

Author Biography

William Kloefkorn was a professor emeritus of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the State Poet of Nebraska. He was the author of more than 20 collections of poetry, two short story collections for adults and one for children, and four memoirs. David Lee is the author of 15 poetry collections—including So Quietly the Earth—and the former Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University. He was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate and is the recipient of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry, the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement, and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. He lives in Bandera, Texas.