Only Connect 1. The Horse Does Not Know It Is in a Movie How to Catch a Fly The Language of Trees ESL Dog Remote Punctuation Universe in B Flat Retreat An Italian Farmer Explains to Us the Meaning of Life The Land of Nod Scout God ST RAGE Monkey Mind Endangered Species How to Survive Right-Wing Extremism Novena The Flag of Cucumber 2. Memoir More Plasticville Honorary Junior Black Panther Panning General Lee Grief Birthday The Country of Bed The Paddle The News Development Good Days The Art of Memory The Next-to-Last Poem The Almanac
Steve Straight is a professor of English and director of the poetry program at Manchester Community College in Connecticut. He is the author of a previous collection of poetry, The Water Carrier (Curbstone, 2002), which was featured on the nationally syndicated radio program “The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.”
"Steve Straight is a poet of everyday experience whose disarmingly
casual voice can lead the reader into deeper waters of insight and
modest epiphanies. Every one of the poems in The Almanac achieves
that rare thing in the streets of contemporary poetry: they are
just plain interesting." --Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of
the United States
"'...even the universe lives to breathe / and with that breath it
wants to sing, ' writes Steve Straight in this new collection of
poems that sing the universe so beautifully. These tender (and
often very funny) meditations on the nature of nature, the
fierceness and delicacy of love, and the consolations of language
delighted me with their freshness and wisdom. To see the world
through Steve Straight's eyes is to see it anew. And isn't this
what we ask of the best poetry?" --George Bilgere, author of The
White Museum
"The Almanac is truth-telling in the spirit of Emily Dickinson's
'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant, ' a beautifully readable
collection for nonpoets and poets alike. May it find most caring
hands." --Dick Allen, author of Present Vanishing
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