Gutter Flowers by Don Welch
August 1, 2005
Filed under Logan House, Poetry
Don Welch moves among the poor like a modern day Whitman who has mastered the fine art of pruning. The poor, he says, "need the dump and truck of love / to walk on too." With a minimum of words he evokes a maximum of feelings and sympathies. The rest of us need the poet's words to bring us those plac...
Alvin Turner as Farmer by William Kloefkorn
March 24, 2005
Filed under Logan House, Poetry
It was 1972 when Alvin Turner first ambled onto the page and charmed his way into the hearts of readers. The voice behind the mask belonged to William Kloefkorn, first-book poet and assistant professor at a small Methodist university on the Plains. Alvin Turner As Farmer was an instant success. ...
The Great American Road Show
October 1, 2003
Filed under Logan House, Poetry
Logan House is pleased to announce the publication of The Great American Road Show, an anthology of the work of nineteen gifted young poets. Diverse in sensitivity and sensibility, the voices and visions of these poems make it clear that poetry is alive and well among the first generation to come o...
Frankenstein Was A Negro by Charles Fort
February 1, 2002
Filed under Catalog, Logan House, Poetry
Frankenstein Was A Negro is a lyrical psalm--it sings the blues and has the scat and soul of the Cotton Club. It's a testament to the true working class--hands tattered and torn; eye squinting bright. Reminiscent of Baudelaire, father of the prose poem, this collection mesmerizes and haunts and b...
Disciples of an Uncertain Season and Other Poems by Larry Holland
September 2, 2001
Filed under Catalog, Logan House, Poetry
At the time of Larry Holland's death in March of 1999, Disciples of an Uncertain Season, published just the fall before, had virtually sold out. This volume reprints Disciples in its entirety with the addition of a number of poems previously published available only in magazines and journals. An i...
The Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry
September 1, 2001
Filed under Catalog, Logan House, Poetry
The many voices in this collection signal the range, richness, and diversity that is American Poetry. With no one idiom, no one landscape, no one "American Experience" to confine the imagination, the poets in this collection speak many tongues, proving the wisdom of Walt Whitman's assertion, in t...
Shadowboxing and Other Stories by William Kloefkorn
January 2, 2001
Filed under Catalog, Fiction, Logan House
In this collection of five stories, one of America's master poets delves again into the lives of idiosyncratic and diverse characters of the Plains. William Kloefkorn introduces us to a teen-aged babysitter shadowboxing his way to adulthood, a waitress and the hero who rescues her from her grief, a young c...
A Time to Sink Her Pretty Little Ship by William Kloefkorn
January 2, 1999
Filed under Catalog, Fiction, Logan House
Some things have gone awry in the sleepy bergs wherein William Kloefkorn's characters dwell. The unassuming title character of Newberry's Boy has been, for some time now, violating our most sacred taboo. The Pisser Into Clear and Faraway Streams refuses to die quietly. In Baptizing the Shirt a woman...