Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "What a powerful little volume Osing has put together. The personal essays--eccentricand lovingly conceived and penned. There used to be a whole lot more of this kind of delicacy in American literature. I'm thinking Edward Dahlberg, Kenneth Rexroth, the youthful William Saroyan. These essays gleaned from journals cross over into poetry and the poems circle back into the notions and experiences Osing so tauntingly captures in exciting prose. No sojourn into cultural and intimate geography will ever be quite the same for me"--Al Young.

Author City: HERNANDO, MS USA

Gordon Osing is now retired after teaching at the University of Memphis since 1973. There he founded The River City Writers Series, now in its thirty-fifth year. He is the author of MEANWHILE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011), SLAUGHTERING THE BUDDHA (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010), THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED: FICTIONS OF FAMILY EROS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006), APO/CALYPSO (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), From the Boundary Waters (Memphis State University Press, 1981), and Town Down River (St. Lukes Press, 1985). He has also translated widely from the Chinese. His travels to China inform his other verse and journal collection, The Water Radical. "The Center is everywhere attention gathers," he has said of his work in verse, prose, and translation. He now lives lakeside in Delta bluffs woods in Eudora, Mississippi, where he is continuing his career in reading, writing and traveling.