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American Compass Hardback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Bill Meissner

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American Compass, Bill Meissner's fourth book of poetry, is a collection that steers the reader on a varied, memorable journey down the American highway. Like the four points of a compass, each of the book's four sections has a distinct direction. "First Corners" features poems about childhood and the realizations of early adulthood. "Breaking Dreams" illuminates the myths and realities of popular American icons, with portraits of James Dean, Thomas Edison, Elvis Presley, and Joe DiMaggio. The baseball poems in "Taking the Curve" become subtle metaphors for the game of life. In the "Soul Highway" poems, the author concludes the book with a series of poignant personal experiences that will leave the reader thinking more deeply about his or her life.

American Compass is a personal comment on growing up in America as well as a political comment on the state of American culture, with its heroes and everyday people, its hopes and failures, its winners and losers.

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  • Title American Compass
  • Author Bill Meissner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Publication date 2004-10
  • ISBN 9780268034818 / 0268034818
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.38 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.97 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004017585
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Bill Meissner is the author of three books of poetry and a collection of short stories. His writing has appeared in more than 150 journals, magazines, and anthologies. His numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, five PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Awards, two Loft-McKnight Awards, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. Meissner is the Director of Creative Writing at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

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