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“I think it is a towering, major work. McGrath, Neruda, but altogether Jacobson.” —Chris Butters, poet, coproducer, Arts Express radio show, WBAI-FM (Pacifica), New York City, on Jacobson’s long poem, “Notes from the Travelogue”
“Larry Woiwode, the late Poet Laureate of North Dakota, once remarked to me that Jacobson’s poem, ‘A Walk by the River,’ was the best long poem since Thomas McGrath’s ‘Letter to an Imaginary Friend.’ If the finest literature hands the reader’s humanity back to him or herself as it considers the great questions of life, then Jacobson scores on both fronts, a major accomplishment in contemporary American letters. There is no finer moment for this reader of poetry than the recognition of being in the presence of an humanity-preserving vision. Jacobson blesses, curses, enlightens, analyses, condemns, and defends the world and its inhabitants.” —Pamela Sund, editor of the collection of commentary Thomas McGrath: Start the Poetry Now
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Author Bio
About Jacobson and his poetry, the unmatched political poet Thomas McGrath wrote: "Dale Jacobson was the most brilliant student I have ever had in a poetry workshop." In the eighties he characterized Jacobson as "the best of the young American poets." Since then Jacobson has written a half dozen long poems, one of which, A Walk by the River, has been praised by Robert Bly and W.S. Merwin, and called a masterwork by poets Floyce Alexander, Robert Hedin, and Larry Woiwode, who as Poet Laureate of North Dakota also designated Jacobson an Honorary Poet Laureate. He has published ten books of poetry and is acknowledged by McGrath's publisher as one of the foremost scholars on McGrath's work. Dale Jacobson lives in the Red River Valley north of Alvarado, Minnesota.
Author City: ALVARADO, MN USA