Poetry. "There's much to be learned here. At this long moment—this book—in Garin Cycholl's continuing project the prairie's a verb ('light cracked and/ prairied'), the landscape of the Midwest 'a haggard trophy'; these pages tangle exquisitely with the varieties of distance and from South-of-70 to the city of the big shoulders and beyond, the work teases belief out of chrome, tours the nature of vipers, and traces (and burns) the blue in green. RAFETOWN GEORGICS is a confidence of practical matters (rural and otherwise), a jukebox of voices telling wonders, an astonishing book"—C. S. Giscombe.

Author City: HOMEWOOD, IL USA

Garin Cycholl's recent work has appeared in Admit2, Rain Taxi, EXQUISITE CORPSE, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, and Seven Corners. His books include HOSTILE WITNESS (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), RAFETOWN GEORGICS (Cracked Slab Books, 2008), and BLUE MOUND TO 161 (Pavement Saw Press, 2005). Since 2002, he has been a member of Chicago's Jimmy Wynn Fiction Collaborative. Cycholl currently teaches writing and literature as a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.

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