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Fragments in Us Recent and Earlier Poems Dennis Trudell Winner of the 1996 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry Selected by Philip Levine In this collection of poems spanning thirty years of work, Dennis Trudell writes about the dense humanity of cities, about Chicago, basketball, an inner-city fire; about Vietnam and Central America; about sons and parents. Above all, he writes about the humility and humanity we gain from recognizing our ties to all our fellow sojourners on this earth, noticing that strangers and neighbors are often brave and resilient and lovely beyond reason. Inspired by such writers as Nelson Algren and Pablo Neruda, Trudell sees reason for hope and humor in a radical stance toward grim realities of the world. Excerpt from The Art of Poetry You can say anything. That a young marine charging up a sand incline at Saipan suddenly thought of mittens on a string. That after hours in the museum all is quiet: the Rubens in Trafalger Square, for example, stay well within their frames. That the lake of the mind no longer at civil war must be lovely and quiet, with delightful small fish nibbling near the surface. That Rasputin's toenails must have been clipped by someone: where are such traces now? That the impossible sea is heaving tonight at the flanks of a ship with lights and music . . . of many ships, carrying an unguessable number of indiscretions, and not a few smokers considering the jump. Dennis Trudell grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has lived for many years in Madison, Wisconsin. An assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Whitewater, Trudell received his B.A. from Denison University and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His poems have been published in seven chapbooks and more than a dozen anthologies, as well as in the Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and North American Review. He also writes fiction and has a story in a recent O. Henry Prize volume.

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