Poems from the Sangamon

"Regional poetry at its best, where the strongly articulated localvoice slips easily, persuasively, and movingly into the universal."-- J. R. Willingham, Choice"Uses the history and prehistory of the Sangamon river valley ashis subject matter; the poems are laconic, earthy, full of sharply observeddetails, and are rendered with a flair for common speech." -- Library Journal"Knoepfle has long been misunderstood and underestimated among U.S.poets. . . . poems from the sangamon, his finest single collectionto date, celebrates the Sangamon country around Springfield." --Charles Guenther, St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Captures without nostalgia a time and a people in their essences,embodying their raw emotions, their dreams, and the bitter realities ofbeing caught up in the twentieth century." -- Anne C. Bromley, Prairie Schooner