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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Nature Writing. In these twenty-six short essays, Merrill Gilfillan records his encounters with Wood Warblers as they flit through North American landscapes on their migratory paths. With precision, appetite, and a touch of whimsy, he sketches the tiny birds in their surroundings, perfecting the art of what he elsewhere calls "alfresco writing...read more
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9780981952048 | Flood Editions, November 1, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

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Product Description: Poetry. In THE BARK OF THE DOG, Merrill Gilfillan summons lyric equivalents to landscapes and day shapes, drawing on off-hand song, bird's-eye bearings, and the vortical power of place names. Like Basho's haiku, Gilfillan's poems are anchored in time as well as space: an hour of the day, inflected by thunder or a pear; a month of the year, marked by the trees-in-wind or birds "moving through the mesh of the dangerous starlight...read more
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9780981952055 | Flood Editions, November 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Art. Photography. This series of fifty-four photographs follows Route 36 across the Kansas prairie, capturing the region's strong light and registering detailed textures within its vast spaces. Cottonwood trees, twisted by wind, break up the expanses, conveying a sense of scale and vertical life...read more
By Merrill Gilfillan (foreword by) and William Wylie (photographer)
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9780981952031 | Flood Editions, July 15, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Art.

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Product Description: “If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be...read more
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9780976161226 | Adventures in Poetry, February 28, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be.

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Product Description: Poetry. With exuberance and economy, Merrill Gilfillan's UNDANCEABLE evokesthe landscape of the American West through the geographic word. Placenames, the texture of speech, and a certain aroma of nature permeatethese pages. Ever alert to unforeseen connections, Gilfillan followsboth eye and ear, his poems unfolding at the pace of consciousness...read more
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9780974690254 | Flood Editions, June 30, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Poetry. Author of numerous books of short stories and award-winning travel and nature essays Merrill Gilfillan is a poet of remarkable vision, insight and accomplishment. His poems speak of the natural world: earth, sky, water, and all the complexities and contradictions of human presence in that world...read more
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9780970876362 | Qua Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9780970876355 | Qua Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Such a fine writer is Merrill Gilfillan that the urge to simply quote at length from his books is difficult to stifle. The line between poetry and essay, the two forms in which he writes, seems negligible, so keen and true are his observations...read more
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9781555662967 | Johnson Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Such a fine writer is Merrill Gilfillan that the urge to simply quote at length from his books is difficult to stifle.

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Product Description: You've got plans for your life. So does God. You're just starting out on your own. You're ready to make your own choices and decisions. Ready to live your own life. Here's the guidebook that will help you get the most from your future...read more
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9781586608286 | Boxed edition (Barbour Pub Inc, March 1, 2003), cover price $19.97 | About this edition: You've got plans for your life.
9781586608163, titled "Route 365: Direction for Lifes Journey" | Barbour Pub Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $4.97 | About this edition: New graduates often face confusing signposts.

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Product Description: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota...read more
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9780871087461 | Pruett Pub Co, April 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.

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9780803271074 | Bison Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.
9781889097268 | Reprint edition (Hard Pr Inc, February 1, 2002), cover price $13.95
9780679730385 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Essays deal with a Kansas farm town, Billy the Kid's stolen tombstone, the cosmology of the Pawnee Indians, the behavior of prairie chickens, and modern life on the Great Plains

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9780970625052 | Zephyr Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $12.50

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Product Description: Fiction. In his first book of fiction, SWORD BEFORE CRANES, Merrill Gilfillan earned the highest praise from readers and reviewers. BOOKLIST called the collection "astonishing...some of the purest, most concentrated fiction in American prose literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781882413690 | Hanging Loose Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

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9781882413683 | Hanging Loose Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.00

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Amazon.com Review: The Lakota word for bluebird, writes High Plains poet Gilfillan, is a verb meaning something like "to pass by all in blue." Gilfillan turns the endless hazy vistas of Wyoming, Colorado, and the Dakotas into verbs all their own, populating them with crows, magpies, meadowlarks, passing clouds--and always with stories derived from history and from his own travels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781555662271 | Johnson Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

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The sixth book of poetry by a winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction evokes the texture of the landscape of the American West and traces the encroachments of civilization and technology on nature. Simultaneous. IP.
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9781559211819 | Moyer Bell Ltd, January 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

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9781559211826 | Moyer Bell Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The sixth book of poetry by a winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction evokes the texture of the landscape of the American West and traces the encroachments of civilization and technology on nature.

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Product Description: A collection of essays that grew from the authors travels along the folkloric backroads of Appalachia.
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9781889097053 | Hard Pr Inc, April 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays that grew from the authors travels along the folkloric backroads of Appalachia.

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A collection of short fiction by the poet-essayist author of the award-winning Magpie Rising journeys back to the landscape of the Great Plains to explore the lives of such characters as an Ethiopian teenager in search of his first native American. 10,000 first printing.
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9780517597392 | Orion Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories journeys back to the landscape of the Great Plains to explore the lives of such characters as an Ethiopian teenager in search of his first Native American

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