Fwd: For Immediate Release DANCING ROOM ONLY
Jim Reese
Have a great new year! --Jim Reese
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Dancing Room Only: New and Selected Poems by Jim Reese
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LCCN: 2023932993 ISBN: 978-1-63045-073-1 Publication Date: January 15, 2024
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Dancing Room Only: New and Selected Poems by
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Beacon, NY - Dancing Room Only is a wild romp into the forgotten center of our people. With his signature rollicking style, a keen sense of humor, and an acute ear for dialect and voice, Reese archives the sinners and saints that haunt the Midwest and beyond. Author Kent Meyers writes of Reese’s work: “In these poems, ordinary life with its children and neighbors crackles like a mirage, and shifts and opens, and we find we’ve been all along in San Quentin prison. What is it we just saw?—a five-year-old child swinging on the monkey bars, or a tattooed convict, crying? Reese’s eye is the eye of a father, and he finds his world both alien and comforting. These are poems of praise and poems of warning, infused with love and latent violence. Reese makes us feel the threat throbbing inside the song.” In Dancing Room Only—New and Selected Poems Reese is a well-traveled troubadour with Midwestern sensibility, and as the author of three widely-praised books of poetry, he knows how to blow our hearts sideways.
Previous Praise for Jim Reese...
He’s our Mark Twain of this century... —Grace Cavalieri, from the Poet and the
Poem at the Library of Congress
We call it the heartland but we seldom drop by for a visit. Jim Reese catches
the dying fire of the small town wasteland that staggers on with meth, desire,
and neglect. These loving poems open the door to the real little house on the
prairie. Time to step inside and finally have one honest moment with the
forgotten center of our people.” —Charles Bowden, author of Murder City:
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
...Reese is an eloquent tour guide, a smart, soft-hearted, wise-cracking Virgil
in a land of lonely miles and piercing beauty. —George Bilgere, author of Imperial
Jim Reese is Associate Professor of English and
Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty University in
Yankton, South Dakota. Reese’s poetry and prose have been widely published, and
he has presented at venues throughout the country, including the Library of
Congress and San Quentin Prison. Reese’s awards include a 2022 Distinguished
Teaching Award from Mount Marty University, First Place Allen Ginsberg Poetry
Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from Mount Marty University, and a
Distinguished Public Service Award in recognition of his exemplary dedication
and contributions to the Education Department at Federal Prison Camp Yankton.
His books include These Trespasses, ghost on 3rd, and Really Happy! His first
book of nonfiction, Bone Chalk, was published by Stephen F. Austin State
University Press in 2020; paperback released in 2021.
Jim Reese, PhD | Associate Professor of English
Mount Marty University | 1105 W. 8th Street, Yankton, SD 57078
Office: 605-668-1362 | www.jimreese.org