{"product_id":"9780911042818","title":"North Dakota Is Everywhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe scope of the poets in this collection is as broad as the landscape itself, including work by Heid E. Erdrich, Mark Vinz, Debra Marquart, Ed Bok Lee, Tim Murphy, and North Dakota's Poet Laureate, Larry Woiwode.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome are poets descended from indigenous inhabitants of the High Plains. Others are descendants of thos who immigrated here from Germany, Russia, or the Scandinavian countries in the nineteenth century, or more recently from other parts of the country and world. They write about the historical struggles of settlement and assimilation, and more contemporary versions of those struggles in the Bakken oil patch in the western part of the state. Some write about North Dakota from the rural settings they have known and loved for a lifetime, others from the distant vantages of nostalgia or escape, and still others from the point of view of transplants coming to terms with their new home. The poets here include seasoned and emerging voices, women and men, old and young, those from the ranching and oilflared badlands west of the Missouri, and from the floodprone river valley farmlands of the east.     Poets Biographies      Madelyne Camrud has lived in Grand Forks for all but two years of her married life and in North Dakota all but nine months. She is the author most recently of Oddly Beautiful.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHeidi Czerwiec moved to Grand Forks in 2005 to teach at UND, where she also directed the UND Writers Conference for seven years. She is a poet, translator, and essayist, the author most recently of Sweet\/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHeid E. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton and is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She is the author of four collections of poetry including National Monuments, which won a Minnesota Book Award, and Cell Traffic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDale Jacobson has published nine volumes of poetry, including Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast and the booklength poem, A Walk by the River.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRhoda Janzen was born in Harvey, and wrote about her heritage in the New York Times #1 bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and a collection of poems, Babel's Stair.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRobert King has published two books of poetry, Old Man Laughing and Some of These Days, and a creative nonfiction book about North Dakota s Sheyenne River, Stepping Twice into the River: Following Dakota Waters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDenise Lajimodiere is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa who spent her early years raised on the reservation. She is the author of Dragonfly Dance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEd Bok Lee grew up in South Korea and North Dakota. He is the author of two national bestselling books of poetry and prose: Whorled, which won the American Book Award and Minnesota Book Award, and Real Karaoke People, winner of the Many Voices Project Prize and the PEN\/Open Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLisa LinrudMarcis grew up on her family's farm north of Velva. She received UND s 2011 Distinguished Thesis Award for In Grain, which was published as a chapbook by Finishing Line Press.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDebra Marquart's books include Everything's a Verb and Small Buried Things. Marquart s memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, was awarded the Elle Lettres Award from Elle Magazine and the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTim Murphy was born in Hibbing. He graduated from Yale as Scholar of the House in Poetry in 1972. Now a resident of Fargo, he has more than 800 poems in print, and is completing his fourteenth book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJamie Parsley was born in Fargo and was raised near Harwood. He is the author most recently of Fargo, 1957, which chronicles the June 1957 tornado that struck Fargo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAaron Poochigian grew up in Grand Forks, ND and now lives in New York City. His published works include a book of poetry, The Cosmic Purr.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDavid R. Solheim was born in Elgin. He was selected as the North Dakota Statehood Centennial Poet and is the author most recently of The Landscape Listens: Poems. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMark Vinz was born in Rugby. He is the author of Long Distance, The Work Is All, and In Harm's Way.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRichard Watson, singer\/songwriter and poet, is the author most recently of The Spot and Blue Jesus.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLarry Woiwode, North Dakota's Poet Laureate, is the author of multiple works of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming chapbook, Land of Sunlit Ice (NDSU Press, May 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023142273264,"sku":"9780911042818","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780911042818_p0.jpg?v=1763863707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780911042818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}