Poetry. "Dale Jacobson is a poet of lyric praise and political vision. Like Tom McGrath, Jacobson's late friend and mentor, he comes to his topics from growing up and working in the farms and canning factories of the great prairie of the northern mid-west. If there is a politics in his poetry as there is in McGrath's, it is as spiritually suffused with nature as William Blake's, as imagistic and allusively argued as Neruda's, and as American as a coyote on a hilltop outside town waking us up with his lyrical, plaintive song"--John Balaban.

Author City: E GRAND FORKS, MN USA

Dale Jacobson lives in East Grand Forks and teaches at UND. He has published nine collections of poetry, including four with Red Dragonfly Press: Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast (2008); A Walk by the River--a long poem (2004); Voices of the Communal Dark (2001); and Hunting My Home Town (1997). His other publications include the book length poems: Dakota Incantations (1973); Shouting at Midnight (1986); Factories and Cities (2003); and Exile in My Homeland (2006). Jacobson has also written many important essays on the poetry of Thomas McGrath.