Poems from the Sangamon

Regional poetry at its best, where the strongly articulated local

voice slips easily, persuasively, and movingly into the universal.

– J. R. Willingham, Choice

Uses the history and prehistory of the Sangamon river valley as

his subject matter; the poems are laconic, earthy, full of sharply observed

details, and are rendered with a flair for common speech. – Library

Journal

Knoepfle has long been misunderstood and underestimated among U.S.

poets… . poems from the sangamon, his finest single collection

to date, celebrates the Sangamon country around Springfield. –

Charles Guenther, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Captures without nostalgia a time and a people in their essences,

embodying their raw emotions, their dreams, and the bitter realities of

being caught up in the twentieth century. – Anne C. Bromley, Prairie

Schooner