Poems from the Sangamon Book

      "Regional poetry at its best, where the strongly articulated local         voice slips easily, persuasively, and movingly into the universal."         -- J. R. Willingham, Choice       "Uses the history and prehistory of the Sangamon river valley as         his subject matter; the poems are laconic, earthy, full of sharply observed         details, 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 collection         to 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 of         being caught up in the twentieth century." -- Anne C. Bromley, Prairie         Schooner