Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air [Paperback]

Chris Ransick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 2005

In Denver Poet Laureate and Colorado Book Award Winner Chris Ransick’s Never Summer: Poems From Thin Air, poetry flows like a stream collecting the debris of love, fear, and frailty. At each eddying current, tiny details of everyday life are exquisitely unfurled and enlarged to reveal a world as familiar as a child falling asleep on her father’s shoulder; as whimsical as an afternoon spent watching girls playing rugby; as unnatural as the dead dancing in the snow. Approachable an imaginative, Ransick’s collection received accolades upon its original publication. Here it is again—with ten new poems—to rediscover or explore anew.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Speaks tenderly about romance and family, nature and weather, sickness and death. There is confidence in the future. --Mary Crow, Colorado Poet Laureate

To read the superb poetry of Ransick is to step outside and take a deep breath of Colorado mountain air. -- The Rocky Mountain News

Ransick shares a sense of the human experience that is a part of and a part from the natural world. -- The Billings Outpost

About the Author

Chris Ransick has published poems, stories, and essays widely for over twenty-five. He has been a journalist, editor, and is currently a professor. His work has appeared in High County News, Appalachia , Poeisis , Poetry Motel , and many other publications. His short fiction A Return to Emptiness , was published in 2004. Chris lives in Colorado with his wife, son, and daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Ghost Road Press (August 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977127214
• ISBN-13: 978-0977127214
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,095,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)