A Blanket of Raven Feathers
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Author: Larry Schug
Blurbs:
“In the fine tradition of writers Sigurd Olson and Henry David Thoreau, Larry Schug’s poetry captures a heartfelt love of nature and animals, big and small, insects to plated armadillos, using poetic language (‘cacophonous congress of crows’) to proclaim his love of the natural world. His wry humor will make you chuckle, while infused throughout are crisp, telling details that make you see what he sees, and believe that you are there with him (‘. . . three sandhill cranes, silhouetted black on gray against the bulging water skins of rain clouds yet to burst’), and feel what he feels.
“But he takes on humanity, too, from himself (‘I am a young man disguised as an old man, disguised as my father, my grandfather’), the misery of a cold shared with a spouse, or sibling differences.
“He takes on social justice, sending ‘poems of truth (I say), to the FBI, CIA, BIA, KGB, Homeland Security, scream[ing] free verse at the Pentagon.’
“Larry’s poetic world is far and wide-seeing and universal and thoughtful. He sees poetry anywhere and everywhere—in his brother’s restoration of their father’s old barber chair, in a cat peering out a window, even through the eyes of a milkweed plant, or a tree, and one of his greatest gifts as a writer is how accessible his verse is as he moves us to view what is loved and lost and hidden and yearned for in our souls.”
– Bill Vossler, Life columnist for the St. Cloud Times, author of more than 3,300 articles and sixteen books, including Burma-Shave and The Art & Craft of Rewriting
"Schug's poems, collected at a Sabbath's pace, remind us of how far we fall short, in choosing to love from a distance."
– J. Vincent Hanson, author of The Medicine of Place, Without Dividend in Mind, and Blessed are the Piecemakers
About the Author: Larry Schug is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor. He is currently a volunteer writing tutor at the College of St. Benedict and a volunteer naturalist at St. John’s University OutdoorU. He lives with his wife, a dog, and two cats near a large tamarack bog in St. Wendel Township, Minnesota. Larry is the author of seven books of poems–Scales Out of Balance (1990), Caution: Thin Ice (1993), The Turning of Wheels (2001), Arrogant Bones (2008), Nails (2011), and At Gloaming (2014) all published by North Star Press of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and a chapbook, Obsessed with Mud, published by Poetry Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota. Caution: Thin Ice was a 1993 Minnesota Book Award finalist and Arrogant Bones was a 2008 Midwest Book Award finalist. Larry has won three Central Minnesota Arts Board grants and was awarded a 2008 McKnight Fellowship for Writers.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-071-6
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 176
Publication Date: May 2017
Blurbs:
“In the fine tradition of writers Sigurd Olson and Henry David Thoreau, Larry Schug’s poetry captures a heartfelt love of nature and animals, big and small, insects to plated armadillos, using poetic language (‘cacophonous congress of crows’) to proclaim his love of the natural world. His wry humor will make you chuckle, while infused throughout are crisp, telling details that make you see what he sees, and believe that you are there with him (‘. . . three sandhill cranes, silhouetted black on gray against the bulging water skins of rain clouds yet to burst’), and feel what he feels.
“But he takes on humanity, too, from himself (‘I am a young man disguised as an old man, disguised as my father, my grandfather’), the misery of a cold shared with a spouse, or sibling differences.
“He takes on social justice, sending ‘poems of truth (I say), to the FBI, CIA, BIA, KGB, Homeland Security, scream[ing] free verse at the Pentagon.’
“Larry’s poetic world is far and wide-seeing and universal and thoughtful. He sees poetry anywhere and everywhere—in his brother’s restoration of their father’s old barber chair, in a cat peering out a window, even through the eyes of a milkweed plant, or a tree, and one of his greatest gifts as a writer is how accessible his verse is as he moves us to view what is loved and lost and hidden and yearned for in our souls.”
– Bill Vossler, Life columnist for the St. Cloud Times, author of more than 3,300 articles and sixteen books, including Burma-Shave and The Art & Craft of Rewriting
"Schug's poems, collected at a Sabbath's pace, remind us of how far we fall short, in choosing to love from a distance."
– J. Vincent Hanson, author of The Medicine of Place, Without Dividend in Mind, and Blessed are the Piecemakers
About the Author: Larry Schug is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor. He is currently a volunteer writing tutor at the College of St. Benedict and a volunteer naturalist at St. John’s University OutdoorU. He lives with his wife, a dog, and two cats near a large tamarack bog in St. Wendel Township, Minnesota. Larry is the author of seven books of poems–Scales Out of Balance (1990), Caution: Thin Ice (1993), The Turning of Wheels (2001), Arrogant Bones (2008), Nails (2011), and At Gloaming (2014) all published by North Star Press of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and a chapbook, Obsessed with Mud, published by Poetry Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota. Caution: Thin Ice was a 1993 Minnesota Book Award finalist and Arrogant Bones was a 2008 Midwest Book Award finalist. Larry has won three Central Minnesota Arts Board grants and was awarded a 2008 McKnight Fellowship for Writers.
ISBN: 978-1-68201-071-6
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 176
Publication Date: May 2017