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Walking in Snow
This book reads as a meditation on the passage of time. There is a strong undercurrent of the poet’s awareness of his own mortality and there is still childlike wonder... Wherever the journey has been, whatever it will be, whether we “sit on a bench with old men” or “make footprints where there are none,” John Knoepfle’s own steady hands have drawn us a map that we are fortunate to have.”
—Carol Manley
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I Look Around for my Life
Knoepfle writes a clear and restrained prose. The book reads swiftly but pauses for bits of lovely detail. About a visit to Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound: “The two of us could stretch out with our heads propped on the flank of the good serpent, entertained by an excitement of indigo buntings and yellow warblers.”. . . Of particular interest is John’s pursuit of the stories of river men on the Ohio and Mississippi, recording priceless oral history of a now vanished group well before there was a name for this activity. Another notable part is the description of John’s time in the Navy and the vagaries of that institution, especially after John was wounded, when he was still held in the service but not serving. He managed to squeeze in a couple of degrees during that frustrating time in limbo.
—Jacqueline Jackson, Illinois Times
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Poem of the Month
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random thoughts - December 2012:
winter miracle - November 2012:
veterans day - October 2012:
conjugal secret - September 2012:
a difficult morning
"I would consider John Knoepfle one of those classic poets of place. His attachment to the
midwest is a genuine attachment; it is the place that he inhabits, rather than writes
about, and that is what makes the poems so lovely. I think it has to do with his sense of
relationship of place to person to word."
—Brooke Bergen
About John
John Knoepfle is the author of over 20 books of poetry as well as several prose pieces. He is Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of Illinois- Springfield. His awards include fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Mark Twain Award for Contributions to Midwestern Literature. Click here to read
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