Poetry. Environmental Studies. Joe Paddock, in DARK DREAMING, GLOBAL DIMMING, writes in apprehension of what he has come to call the Big Story. Panting along the trail of our private agendas, not so many of us care to hear this story. But its voice is insistent. It sounds now from the deep recesses of our minds. It sounds, too, as a sort of echo, from within almost everything we do. The Big Story, its plot beginning to move now at a truly rattling pace, is that our way of being here on planet Earth is reaching its limits, has brought us to an edge, to a point beyond which we had better not go.

Author City: LITCHFIELD, MN USA

Joe Paddock lives in Litchfield, Minnesota, in the same house he grew up in. He is married to the writer Nancy Paddock. In his writing, Paddock ever seeks to ?nd harmony with self and place, and in these poems you will discover outcomes of decades of dream work and the collecting of oral history. More often than not Paddock is a narrative poet: he believes deeply in story, that to make a point it is best to tell a story, that stories are containers for us that make sense of our lives and keep us from going too far astray. Risen from Paddock's home ground, his poems are a revelation of local wisdom, local wonders.