Thanksgiving Dawn: Poems 1970-2008 - Softcover

John Graber

9780911287608: Thanksgiving Dawn: Poems 1970-2008

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0911287604 ISBN 13: 9780911287608

Publisher: Blue Begonia Press, 2008

Written over four decades, this Iowa Writers Workshop graduate, shows, poem by poem, what it is like to be transformed by writing, great teachers, and Christ. A student of the great poetry teachers of our time: Richard Hugo, Marvin Bell, Donald Justice and William Stafford, Graber brought his Christ with him to Iowa, and let everything work its way into his own journey as a Christian pilgrim. --Jim Bodeen

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About the Author:

John Graber lives and writes in Northern Wisconsin. He is the odd Iowa Workshop trained poet who remained a Lutheran of the kind who co-teaches confirmation, sings in the choir, washes coffee hour cups with the men s Bible study, is on the Youth and Education Committee, has done lay preaching, and regularly prays with his wife (of 41 years) in the Daily Texts of Mt. Carmel(Bonhoeffer s Moravian prayer book). Graber s life has been steeped in the language, moods, and tones of scripture, and that has formed his voice.

Review:

John Graber's Thanksgiving Dawnis much more than a first book. It is four decades of poetry that embodies the very passion for life and deep knowledge that defines the art for those who need it. It is the expression of someone who has for a lifetime worked to absorb his experience into the innermost workings of emotion. A tough, hard-won affirmation builds throughout. This is sensitive writing by someone of talent and imagination and, even more than that, this book was necessary. --Marvin Bell

John Graber is a poet who takes my breath away again and again. The sweep of his work from the shores of the Mississippi to deep depression is both fantastical and comforting. He knows where he lives and uses words as the finest of instruments, creating glory and vulnerability with tremendous grace. --Mary Logue

A reading by John Graber now there is an event. He opens up like a great operatic tenor, or maybe a fine gospel singer, and lets fly with poetry for the people, out in the real world and in no need of explication, because he s got you along for the ride and you know he s being profoundly generous with you and with the whole world. --Butch Thompson

When John reads it s all magic and thunder. He plants his feet wide, looks you straight in the eye, the words flow, the connection is made, and it s electric! --Mary Ellen Niedenfuer

John Graber is a poet who takes my breath away again and again. The sweep of his work from the shores of the Mississippi to deep depression is both fantastical and comforting. He knows where he lives and uses words as the finest of instruments, creating glory and vulnerability with tremendous grace. --Mary Logue

A reading by John Graber now there is an event. He opens up like a great operatic tenor, or maybe a fine gospel singer, and lets fly with poetry for the people, out in the real world and in no need of explication, because he s got you along for the ride and you know he s being profoundly generous with you and with the whole world. When John reads it s all magic and thunder. He plants his feet wide, looks you straight in the eye, the words flow, the connection is made, and it s electric! --Butch Thompson & Mary Ellen Niedenfuer

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