Neil Harrison has created some of the finest poems to come out of Nebraska. His voice is insistent, his images precise and the sensibility behind the poems is generous and smart. No one since Don Welch has done the short poem so perfectly. These are poems to mark the passage of time, to note change and to ask what remains constant.
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We are proud to announce that Neil Harrison's IN A RIVER OF WIND has been nominated for the Nebraska Book Award.
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Neil Harrison received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Biology from Chadron State College, a Master’s degree in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at Vermont College. He has held interim and part-time teaching positions at Wayne State College since 1990 and at Northeast Community College since 1987. He grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska, and developed an early love for the Nebraska outdoors that has taken him across the state, from the northeast to the Sandhills, the Platte Valley, the Salt Valley, and the Pine Ridge. His creative work has appeared in The Nebraska Poets Calendar, The Plain Sense of Things, Yarrow, WordArt, Onionskin, Flyway, Writer’s Forum, Story, Here from There, The Nebraska Review, The Nebraska English Journal, Nebraska Territory, The Platte Valley Review, and others.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
First Work by a Writer of Substance and Sensitivity,
By Master of the Master of (Middle America) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In a River of Wind (Paperback)
The "reviewer" below obviously has ulterior motives for giving this book a bad review. Also, one would think a reviewer of poetry would punctuate correctly, edit their misspellings, and use correct grammar. Perhaps the reviewer below believes an unhampered "stream of conscious" ramble is "art" and/or poetry. I must disagree. Before you can understand and appreciate poetry, you should be able to get a "C" or better in Comp 101.
It's also obvious they didn't actually read Harrison's work. This is a fine first collection by a seasoned writer. Anyone who reads a poem like "At Blue Hole" and then goes on to describe it as "unmemorable" needs to have their emotions checked by a credentialed head shrink. Harrison's work in this book is by no means earth-shattering, but it is a solid first effort that's worth any reader's attention--especially students of poetry. I, for one, eagerly await his second.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
a joke of a book of poetry from a joke publisher,
By Master of (sitting here) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In a River of Wind (Paperback)
I reviewed another book from this publisher which I also found equally dull and lacking art. Both, in fact, I found in a bargain barrel of sorts, most likely thrown away by someone who found as equally painful to read as I. Harrison's work wants to be inventive, ingenious and artful, but in the end he doesn't really offer up much of a challenge to his work and simply falls into very unmemorable prose brokwn into lines.
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