{"product_id":"produce-wagon-9781496230577","title":"Produce Wagon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eProduce Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience. Roy Scheele delves into his love for his wife in “Remembrances,” the opening poem from his first chapbook, and “Driving after Dark”; his fascination with the natural world in poems such as “How the Fox Got Away” and “Late Autumn Woods”; his appreciation of his family in “A Kitchen Memory” and “The Long Rise”; and his fondness for stories in “The Carny Circuit” and “In the Clear.” In these and the other poems in the collection, Scheele uses a variety of traditional verse forms as well as free verse and syllabics, carefully fitting the form of each poem to his subject matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though most of the poems are set in Nebraska and neighboring states, there is a universality to the subjects Scheele addresses. In these poems anywhere is everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the page is poetry’s equivalent to the enlightenment of the senses.”—Matt Sutherland, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What is wonderful about a ‘produce wagon’ is its approachability, where we may select this fruit, that melon, to sample—and it’s all so good; otherwise, the produce would never have made it to the wagon. Roy Scheele’s \u003ci\u003eProduce Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e is like that. Every poem is delicious.”—Mark Sanders, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eProduce Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e made me smile poem after poem and will bring up wonderful memories of family and love.\"—karla k. Morton, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roy Scheele is a poet of deep observation and patient discernment. Exquisite in prosody and immaculate in precision, each poem is a hall of mirrors where memory and desire refract off the sharp edges of the observable world.”—Nina Murray, author of \u003ci\u003eAlcestis in the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lifetime’s collection of small and precious things: the pinpoints of the senses, the topography of the soul, these myriad wonders of eloquent plainsong—Roy Scheele’s incomparable, revelatory landscapes of acuity and affection.”—Stephen Behrendt, author of \u003ci\u003eRefractions\u003c\/i\u003e and other collections\u003cbr\u003e“Ted Kooser’s observation has it right: this gorgeous book is first and always music, but enriched by unforgettable imagery, compelling narrative, and ekphrasis. Scheele creates Nebraska—that former sea now prairie—as the setting of the poet’s life, here hauntingly worded, inhabited, and enlivened by intimate memory.”—Rhina P. Espaillat, author of \u003ci\u003eAnd After All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Ted Kooser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAccompanied\u003c\/i\u003e, 1974\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Remembrances\u003cbr\u003e The Welcome Mat\u003cbr\u003e Flowering Crab\u003cbr\u003e At Brim on the Little Blue\u003cbr\u003e Rock Openings\u003cbr\u003e A Metaphor for the Evening Star\u003cbr\u003e The Gap in the Cedar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNoticing\u003c\/i\u003e, 1979\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Noticing\u003cbr\u003e A Kitchen Memory\u003cbr\u003e Fishing Blue Creek\u003cbr\u003e Poppies\u003cbr\u003e August\u003cbr\u003e Missing You\u003cbr\u003e What Swept by on a Winter Morning\u003cbr\u003e How the Fox Got Away\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Sea-Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, 1981\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Sea-Ocean\u003cbr\u003e Spring Greens\u003cbr\u003e Nebraska U.S. 20\u003cbr\u003e The Falls\u003cbr\u003e Focal Point\u003cbr\u003e A Turn in the Weather\u003cbr\u003e Winter Onions\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Anna\u003cbr\u003e Grandpa Mac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ePointing Out the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, 1985\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Making Change\u003cbr\u003e Saturday Mornings in the Radio Years\u003cbr\u003e The Catch\u003cbr\u003e The Farm in Arkansas\u003cbr\u003e Uncle Lou\u003cbr\u003e Sandhill Cranes\u003cbr\u003e Crossing the Field\u003cbr\u003e At the Drought’s Height\u003cbr\u003e Cisterns\u003cbr\u003e Re-Creation\u003cbr\u003e A Walk Round the Monastery Farm\u003cbr\u003e Changing the Flowers\u003cbr\u003e A Reverence\u003cbr\u003e Hoping for Raspberries\u003cbr\u003e Stairway\u003cbr\u003e Ansel Adams: \u003ci\u003eAspens, New Mexico, 1958\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lichens\u003cbr\u003e A Look Around\u003cbr\u003e Mid-August in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e Lightning Bugs\u003cbr\u003e Floating on My Back in the Late Afternoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Voice We Call Human\u003c\/i\u003e, 1991\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Next Morning\u003cbr\u003e A Hot Afternoon with Nothing to Do\u003cbr\u003e Clare’s Last Poem\u003cbr\u003e Antique Wrenhouse\u003cbr\u003e Salt Valley Grange\u003cbr\u003e Snowfence in Late April\u003cbr\u003e Vietnam Memorial\u003cbr\u003e Pallbearing\u003cbr\u003e Heron Feeding in Rain\u003cbr\u003e Reins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eTo See How It Tallies\u003c\/i\u003e, 1995\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Driving after Dark\u003cbr\u003e Lilac Storm\u003cbr\u003e Ritual\u003cbr\u003e Strayed\u003cbr\u003e Witness\u003cbr\u003e In Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e Passage\u003cbr\u003e Reflection\u003cbr\u003e To See How It Tallies\u003cbr\u003e Vigil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eShort Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, 1997\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winter Cloud Cover\u003cbr\u003e Diviner\u003cbr\u003e Ripeness Is All, Is All\u003cbr\u003e October Retort\u003cbr\u003e Crowbar\u003cbr\u003e Deep Autumn\u003cbr\u003e First Bite\u003cbr\u003e The Hunter, Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ground Up\u003c\/i\u003e, 2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At Summer’s Height, in Hungary\u003cbr\u003e January Primrose\u003cbr\u003e First Sighting\u003cbr\u003e Reckoning\u003cbr\u003e Back through California\u003cbr\u003e Planting a Dogwood\u003cbr\u003e Tent Light\u003cbr\u003e From the Ground Up\u003cbr\u003e Black\u003cbr\u003e Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eA Far Allegiance\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gong\u003cbr\u003e Fishheads\u003cbr\u003e X-Ray Fitting\u003cbr\u003e The Squarefold\u003cbr\u003e A Day at the Dentist’s\u003cbr\u003e Produce Wagon\u003cbr\u003e In the Near Distance\u003cbr\u003e Horse Creek Road\u003cbr\u003e Certificate\u003cbr\u003e The Carny Circuit\u003cbr\u003e Across the Sandhills\u003cbr\u003e A Freshening\u003cbr\u003e Woman Feeding Chickens\u003cbr\u003e Upriver\u003cbr\u003e Laid Down at Mesa Verde\u003cbr\u003e West of Vegas\u003cbr\u003e Under Magnification\u003cbr\u003e The Water Meadows, Winchester\u003cbr\u003e Near Dorchester, in Dorset, from the Train\u003cbr\u003e O’Keeffe’s \u003ci\u003eBarn with Snow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Sledders\u003c\/i\u003e, 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Simple Gesture\u003cbr\u003e Discovering Gravity\u003cbr\u003e The Sledders\u003cbr\u003e In Possession\u003cbr\u003e Toward Evening\u003cbr\u003e Therefore\u003cbr\u003e Laughter\u003cbr\u003e Similitude\u003cbr\u003e For Instance\u003cbr\u003e Watching You Open Your New, Many-Hued Umbrella\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Earth Coming Green Again: Uncollected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Earth Coming Green Again\u003cbr\u003e A Counterpoise\u003cbr\u003e The Sparrow’s Way\u003cbr\u003e Dakota Burial\u003cbr\u003e Househunting\u003cbr\u003e In Blowing Snow\u003cbr\u003e The Hadderways\u003cbr\u003e Late Autumn Woods\u003cbr\u003e Noodler\u003cbr\u003e After Things\u003cbr\u003e Dancer\u003cbr\u003e Cover of Darkness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wright Morris: \u003ci\u003eClothing on Hooks, The Home Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dale Nichols: \u003ci\u003eMorning Chore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lunching with Friends\u003cbr\u003e Salon Noir, Niaux\u003cbr\u003e In the Clear\u003cbr\u003e Climbing Rose\u003cbr\u003e Fern\u003cbr\u003e The Long Rise\u003cbr\u003e Flat Water\u003cbr\u003e Four Observations\u003cbr\u003e The Sign Said\u003cbr\u003e Grounders\u003cbr\u003e Seventh-Grade Art\u003cbr\u003e Remember Me\u003cbr\u003e Kingfisher\u003cbr\u003e Lowbush Clusters\u003cbr\u003e At the Station","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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