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Essays from the High Plains
In this new book detailing his travels through the American Great Plains, author Merrill Gilfillan continues to elucidate for us, and add to our appre...
Sketches from the Great Plains
The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska?s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid?stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled?...
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In his latest collection, he indulges his passion for birds, for rivers, and for places--and people--off the beaten pathways. He wanders apple orchard...
Early unpublished work and selections from long out of print books...
An Outdoorsman's Almanac
For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. T...
Poems
The sixth book of poetry by a winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction evokes the texture of the landscape of the American West and trace...
Selected Early Work, 1969-1972
Poetry. Author of numerous books of short stories and award-winning travel and nature essays Merrill Gilfillan is a poet of remarkable vision, insight...
A Miscellany
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. OLD RIVER, NEW RIVER, as a literal miscellany, comprises a gathering of short essays, memoirs, contemplative notes, and e...
Stories Selected and New
Fiction. In a preface to this volume, Merrill Gilfillan reflects, "Most of these stories took shape during the latter twentieth century, a period when...
Poetry. In THE BARK OF THE DOG, Merrill Gilfillan summons lyric equivalents to landscapes and day shapes, drawing on off-hand song, bird's-eye bearing...
Selected Poems
A selection from fifty years of Merrill Gilfillan's lyrical and vivid poetry Merrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Select...
In these twenty-six short essays, Merrill Gilfillan records his encounters with Wood Warblers as they flit through North American landscapes on their ...
Poetry. With exuberance and economy, Merrill Gilfillan's UNDANCEABLE evokesthe landscape of the American West through the geographic word. Placenames,...
The red mavis, better known as the brown thrasher, sings a tireless improvised song, "varied . . . usually pleasing," lambent with "the gladness of th...
Merrill Gilfillan projects an elegant cool, and ... a savage intensity.... He has the gift.--Poetry Project Newsletter...
Fiction. Merrill Gilfillan's short stories are natural extensions of his eloquent and lyrical accounts of Appalachia, the Great Plains, the Western mo...
"I think of these drawings as scraps of roadside homage from the past twenty years, affectionate homage to good, unimpeded places, but also as a regis...