American Poet: A Novel - Softcover
Thank you Jeff Vande Zande for creating the character of Denver Hoptner and returning him home for a Saginaw summer to be transformed by its malleable iron heat. Forged in personal crisis, Denver loved and hated his hometown as he walked its tension-filled streets where he felt his poetic voice unwelcome, another lost son, much like Roethke two generations before.
Denver was stuck in writers block...until he learned that it was because of Saginaw that Roethke found his images to write...until he learned to go back to move forward...until he valued his fathers teachings of history of place and of hard work, not taking the easy way but do it right, only then was he able to discover his own uniqueness and potential in the context of his community....Denvers rite of passage, so filled with courage, sacrifice and risk, guides us in whats important. May more of us listen to his shouts of Save this House to serve Roethkes hometown and to honor a poets life. May more of us climb with Denver and Jeff Vande Zande to become 'children on top of the greenhouse.' Let's have it crowded up there! Annie Ransford, president Friends of Theodore Roethke
Denver was stuck in writers block...until he learned that it was because of Saginaw that Roethke found his images to write...until he learned to go back to move forward...until he valued his fathers teachings of history of place and of hard work, not taking the easy way but do it right, only then was he able to discover his own uniqueness and potential in the context of his community....Denvers rite of passage, so filled with courage, sacrifice and risk, guides us in whats important. May more of us listen to his shouts of Save this House to serve Roethkes hometown and to honor a poets life. May more of us climb with Denver and Jeff Vande Zande to become 'children on top of the greenhouse.' Let's have it crowded up there! Annie Ransford, president Friends of Theodore Roethke
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Set in Saginaw, Michigan, home of poet Theodore Roethke, we follow a young man's journey as he seeks to find himself and finds as well poetry, family, and America.|American Poet: A Novel by Jeff Vande Zande
About the Author:
Jeff Vande Zande began to write as a poet in reaction to his
father who was a fiction writer. It was a rebellion of sorts, he says.
Some of his poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and one of
them was selected to appear in Ted Koosers syndicated newspaper
column, American Life in Poetry. His poems from chapbooks were
eventually collected in a book, Poems New, Used, and Rebuilds (March
Street Press). Vande Zande began writing short stories seriously in
1997 and focused more on his fiction after that. More and more,
the world came to me as stories rather than poems, he says. Bottom
Dog Press has published his Emergency Stopping and Other Stories (2004)
and his novel, Landscape with Fragmented Figures (2009). Additionally,
he has published a novella collected with five stories, Threatened Species
(Whistling Shade Press, 2010). The author has taught for the last ten
years at Delta College, a community college in Michigan that serves
the cities of Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw. American Poet comes out
of his experience as a poet, as a teacher, and as a transplanted advocate
of Saginaw, declaring it, a city with a rich history that includes
struggle, but also the seeds of its rebirth.
father who was a fiction writer. It was a rebellion of sorts, he says.
Some of his poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and one of
them was selected to appear in Ted Koosers syndicated newspaper
column, American Life in Poetry. His poems from chapbooks were
eventually collected in a book, Poems New, Used, and Rebuilds (March
Street Press). Vande Zande began writing short stories seriously in
1997 and focused more on his fiction after that. More and more,
the world came to me as stories rather than poems, he says. Bottom
Dog Press has published his Emergency Stopping and Other Stories (2004)
and his novel, Landscape with Fragmented Figures (2009). Additionally,
he has published a novella collected with five stories, Threatened Species
(Whistling Shade Press, 2010). The author has taught for the last ten
years at Delta College, a community college in Michigan that serves
the cities of Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw. American Poet comes out
of his experience as a poet, as a teacher, and as a transplanted advocate
of Saginaw, declaring it, a city with a rich history that includes
struggle, but also the seeds of its rebirth.
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- PublisherBottom Dog Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1933964537
- ISBN 13 9781933964539
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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