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"Out on the edges of our frantic twenty-first-century nation, bands of wild horses stand nestled together, calmly nuzzling each other to maintain the bonds of family. Prairie hills unfurl around them, and the sky provides their shelter. In the same states where factories churn, offices bustle, and cell phones demand our attention, remote places of solace and beauty rest, mostly undiscovered, in a parallel world that lies closer than we often imagine....
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Pub. Date
2016.
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This new collection by Chad Hanson is populated with interesting characters in the tradition of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology or Dave Etter's Sunflower County. The women and men in Hanson's poems, under the influence of a high plains geography, veer into remarkable transformations and unusual relationships -- a dinner date with a waterfall or a spruce tree that goes off to college for instance. Both playful and serious, these poetic vignettes...
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Pub. Date
2014
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Chad Hanson, a resident of Casper, Wyoming, and author of two previous books of creative non-fiction about trout and trout fishing, here applies his considerable talents to the prose poem, evoking an abundance of interesting characters and interesting experiences, from Medicine Bow to Boulder, from the Midwest to the West Coast, disclosing those odd moments - often absurd, often profound - when life pauses and the imagination jumps at a chance to...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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In Miss American Sky, Chad Hanson's third full-length collection, places turn into people. Men become birds and women will themselves into the shape of coyotes. Or maybe they were creatures all along? In Hanson's work the rational vision of life shares the stage with one where impossibilities fit neatly inside of the everyday. The lines that separate the familiar from the uncanny begin to fade, and in the space that opens up between, we find insights...
