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Peter Meinke
Passionate and compassionate, these poems are both deeply imagined and accessible to the general reader, focusing on personal and political life in American society.
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Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in the new formalism. His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always…
Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke’s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and…
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In Lucky Bones, Peter Meinke moves fluidly through free and formal shapes, taking the reader on a tour through America in the 21st century: family, politics, love, war and peace…
Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar…
This collection of short stories by Meinke often features the threats hidden in apparently safe, comfortable situations. He writes of a world where control over our lives seldom exists beyond…
In Peter Meinke’s eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension…
Howard Nemerov - American Writers 70 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
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Meinkehas continued to write his astute observations about American life and how poetry can guide us toward a more spiritual and fuller life.
These stories of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball…
