Sample Chapters

The following excerpts are available. You can purchase the entire book - click on the Buy Books link.

• from Bones of Brick and Mortar (2017)
  
  
• from Crying the Wilderness (2017)
  
  
• from Here I Stand (2017)

• from Song of the North Country (2010)

• from Southwest Minnesota: A Land of Many Places,
  "A Meditation on Enclosed Space" (2008)
  
  
• "Hanley Falls: The Rituals of Community" (2007)
  
  
• Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place: Chapter I
  "Midwestern Literature" (2006)
  
  
• Father Poems (2005)
  
  
• Hallelujah Anway: "Summerfest" (2004)
  
  
• excerpts from Harassment: A Novel of Ideas (Word document) (2003)
  
  
• excerpts from UB03 (Word document) (2003)
  
  
• preface from Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People (2000)
  
  
• Excerpt from Poland in Transition (Word document) (1994)
  
  
• Excerpt from Late Harvest (Word document) (1991)
  
  
• Excerpt from Poetry of Rock: CHAPTER X: PHIL OCHS (Word document) (1981)
  
  
• A Generation in Motion: "Chapter 2: The Angry No" (Word document) (1979)
  
  
• Chaucer's Literary Pilgrimage: Chapters 1 and 2 (Word document) (1977)
  
  
• Preface to Beowulf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry (1972)