Books by William Kloefkorn

Covers the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Negotiating the no man's land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy's life in 1940s Kansas continues the story began in "This Death by Drowning". It reveals the lost, unforgettable world of a boy, and of a poet, coming of age in midcentury middle America.

Features a memoir that is an artful collection of reminiscences, each having something to do with water. Kloefkorn is Nebraska's poet laureate.

Whether writing about a boyhood in the Great Depression, the bond between a young man and his family, digging storm cellars and ducking tornadoes, or the dropping of the atomic bomb as experienced by a paperboy in small-town Kansas, the author brings a congenial mixture of seriousness and humor to his subjects.

This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of the last half century. Collecting work from limited editions and hard-to-find books, along with Kloefkorn's most anthologized poems, this is an indispensable one-volume compendium of the work of a major American poet.

The ""tell-all"" memoir takes on new meaning in the work of poet William Kloefkorn, whose accounts of the moments and movements of life touch on everything that matters, the prosaic and the profound, the extraordinary in the everyday, and the familiar in the new and strange.