From Where The Rivers Come.

From Where The Rivers Come

Richard Solly

Holy Cow! Press

PO Box 3170, Mount Royal Station, Duluth, MN 55803

0977945812, $14.95 www.holycowpress.org

"From Where The Rivers Come" is a compendium of poetry by St. Paul, Minnesota writer Richard Solly showcases an undeniable talent that has earned him four fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Loft-McKnight Award, and the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship from Iowa State University (where he graduated summa cum laude with a Master's degree in Creative Writing). Currently a senior acquisitions editor for Hazelden Publishing and teacher of creative writing at the Loft Literary Center, "From Where The Rivers Come" is his first published collection of poetry and clearly documents him as an authentic and original American voice in contemporary poetry. 'Why A Poem Ends In Death': Every poem ends in death./Every revelation brings death to what existed before it./Ever pen fills with rain to record afflictions/and can't imagine what lies ahead of its nib/as it journeys down the path of a sentence/to the end of ink. Inside the poem, the poet seeks/his own dissolution in the sky and grass. He's not/summoned out of the tomb, but into it./To create sunlight where there is none./He dies for this joy.