The Graveyard Picnic
Book DescriptionPensive, thoughtful, subtle, wry without bitterness and learned without pretense, William Ford's The Graveyard Picnic articulates our human dilemmas--joy and sorrow, disappointment and elation, faith and doubt, love and rejection. Poem after poem sings the elegiac, as if loss is mitigated only by the celebration of form and language in which music buoys us, heads up and still afloat. With an archaeologist's eye, William Form pieces together the small details of family, of literature and good jazz, of careful watching and judicious memory so that reading these fine poems is sure to help us "keep the living front and center."
About the Author
William Ford, a graduate of Occidental College and of the Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa, has served in the Army, been a tech and PR writer, editor, and day laborer, and has given talks and readings at the Des Moines National Poetry Festival, the Bucknell University Writer’s Conference, and the Iowa Poetry Association. He is currently an adjunct instructor on the distance learning (T.V.) system of Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). His poems have appeared in Flyway, Free Lunch, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and in two anthologies: Voices on the Landscape (Loess Hills Press) and Second Set (Indiana University Press).
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