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BETTING ON THE NIGHT

BETTING ON THE NIGHT

$14.95Price

ISBN: 978-0-9668612-8-0

Pub Date: Fall 2011

Pages: 80


By Dennis Held


“Held’s poems are so full of keenly heard sounds, sharply observed sights, sly and sympathetic humor, and enjoyed experience that it is easy to fall in love with them. . . . The poems are about fishing, relaxing with the Packers on TV or a bottle of bourbon, remembering burning the trash outdoors, skipping church of a Sunday, and imagining the glaciers creating the Midwest. . . Set in Wisconsin and Montana, they are poems of the Northwest, gusts of sweet, cold, enlivening air.”

–Booklist

    Dennis Held is the fourth of eight kids from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. After dropping out of high school in 1975, he got a GED, then went to college at 25 and received a BA from The Evergreen State College and an MFA from the University of Montana. He taught literature, editing and writing classes at colleges and universities around the West including UM and Lewis-Clark State College, and now works as a free-lance book editor. His two books of poetry are Betting on the Night, and Ourself.

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