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In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing DianeGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writingsthat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement,stability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. Psalm to Whom(e) centers on Kansas and rural Texas, placesthat usually see the underside of planes.Glancy focuses on geography.History. Origins. Memory. Faith.Once in a while, in desperation, she offers a prayer to whom(e)ver isthere. Glancy stretches and pulls the language to see behind the words: oldNative thought patterns, for instance, or echoes of Gertrude Stein. She takesus with her into museums, churches, and national parks, shuttling freelybetween personal, cultural, and spiritual history, narration and poeticexploration. Psalm to Whom(e) defines the world as a place on which tomark, as evidenced in the earliest pictographs.Embedded in the markings on cave walls and rock facings are circles andspirals in which the impulses to move, to travel, to migrate, to explore one'sown inner wilderness and solitude are homed. The ""whom(e)"" is in an essay, ""Among My Friends Are Lettersof the Alphabet."" ""As a loner I write alot because I have to have something to do and the letters of the alphabetalways are there."" The isolation of Covid may have driven her farther back intohistory, she says. Into the beginning of faith on the prairie. Into her own believing on her grandfather'sfarm and her own father's work in the stockyards. ""Sometimes I add letters towords. As an 'e' as in 'whome' becausethen I see home, for which I always am looking.""

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"Praise for Psalm to Whom(e)""This dazzling variety of poems, proems, and creative nonfiction takes the reader on both an outward and inward pilgrimage from home to home. Driving, always driving, through sparse and lush landscapes, the present moment and memory inextricably linked, Glancy saturates her journey with Native wisdom and biblical story. She sews a quilt, stitching together the stories and meditations into a vast network of connections. It is more than masterful. It is a thrilling, electric ride.""--Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Professor Emerita of English, Wheaton College""Diane Glancy explores new modes of converging poetry and storytelling in Psalm to Whom(e), a powerful and moving ""investigational [re] imagining"" of the road diary completed in the midst of personal isolation and a global pandemic. ""Driving is a time of communion,"" the speaker submits, ""[e]specially the roads that call one to look at what one is inside. Often with devastating vision."" Glancy's record of solitary travel spans a multiplicity of indexical forms quilted to unearth childhood memories, ""feel the confines of the oppressive past,"" and to p/robe Indigenous futurity. The dedicated reader of innovative poetry will be hard-pressed to encounter another book this year that quivers and pulsates with the same capaciousness and vitality of beginner's mind. A bravura work by a truly great poet.""--Paolo Javier, author of True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside and O.B.B. aka the Original Brown Boy Praise for Diane Glancy ""Glancy is a treasure."" --American Book Review ""Stunning....A graphic and compelling mosaic..."" --Library Journal, starred review ""A moving testament to the creative act of enduring."" --Foreword Reviews, starred review ""What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more."" --Spencer Reece"

"Praise for Diane Glancy ""Glancy is a treasure."" --American Book Review ""Stunning....A graphic and compelling mosaic..."" --Library Journal, starred review ""A moving testament to the creative act of enduring."" --Foreword Reviews, starred review ""What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more."" --Spencer Reece"

"Praise for Psalm to Whom(e)""This dazzling variety of poems, proems, and creative nonfiction takes the reader on both an outward and inward pilgrimage from home to home. Driving, always driving, through sparse and lush landscapes, the present moment and memory inextricably linked, Glancy saturates her journey with Native wisdom and biblical story. She sews a quilt, stitching together the stories and meditations into a vast network of connections. It is more than masterful. It is a thrilling, electric ride.""--Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Professor Emerita of English, Wheaton College Praise for Diane Glancy ""Glancy is a treasure."" --American Book Review ""Stunning....A graphic and compelling mosaic..."" --Library Journal, starred review ""A moving testament to the creative act of enduring."" --Foreword Reviews, starred review ""What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more."" --Spencer Reece"

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Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professoremeritus at Macalester College. She has won the Pablo Neruda Prize forPoetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the OklahomaCenter for the Book, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the NativeWriters' Circle of the Americas, and more. Publishers Weekly named her bookPushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of TearsAmerican novels, and Booklist named A Line of Driftwood: The Ada BlackjackStory an Editors' Choice. She lives in Gainesville, Texas.

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