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gary duehr
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As Marx queried, What is to be done? In poems that range from melancholic to mocking, Weighing in are a Detroit body-bagger, Robert DeNiro's housekeeper, and Adela Legaretta Rivas, "struck by a white Datsun one morning in April"—as well as a motley cast including hapless candidates, apartment dwellers, and Rotation Say a potato chip truck overturns, spilling bags Some drivers stop to guiltily pick up a few, smiling: Potato chips for dinner. How many of them will wake if the darkened house has somehow changed its axis? BIO Duehr has taught poetry and writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Journals in which his poems have appeared include Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review. His books of poetry include THE BIG BOOK OF WHY (Cobble Hill Books, 2008), Potato Chips for Dinner (Cobble Hill Books, 2004), Beautiful Bullets (Cobble Hill Books, 2003), Winter Light (Four Way Books, 1999) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press, 1999). He has also published the chapbooks Connie Stevens Is Flying Over the Pacific Ocean (Pudding House, 2002), In the Bar Apocalypse Now (Ibbetson Street Press, 2002), and Between Things (Pudding House, 2000). In addition, Duehr co-directs the Invisible Cities Group, which creates large-scale performances combining theatrical elements, installations of visual art, and poetry. BOOKS The following books are also available from amazon.com: Winter Light (63 pp.), $12.95. Where Everyone Is Going To (53 pp.), $11.00. Between Things (28 pp.), $8.95. |
