Fighting Kite (pages 37-41) Bio and Back Pages

Here's the "About the Author" page plus two back pages, the Colophon and a listing of Pecan Grove Press titles.         Vince Gotera was born and raised in San Francisco but also lived for several years in the Philippines as a young child. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he is an English professor of creative writing and multicultural literature at the University of Northern Iowa. He serves as Editor of the North American Review. Vince holds an MFA in poetry writing and a double PhD in English and in American Studies from Indiana University. In 1993 he won a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include two collections of poems, Dragonfly (Pecan Grove Press) and Ghost Wars (Final Thursday Press), as well as a critical study, Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans (University of Georgia Press). Vince and his wife Mary Ann Blue have four children: Amanda, Amelia, Melina, and Gabriel. Vince's son Marty and his wife Grace live in Bielefeld, Germany. Vince thunks the bass guitar and loves all shades of blue — cobalt, midnight, royal, cerulean, electric, robin's-egg. The cover photograph shows Vince flying a dragon kite with his son Gabe on the meadow behind their house. Page 37         Fighting Kite by Vince Gotera was typeset using Hanshand and Bauer Bodoni, Roman and Italic, with Adobe Wood Type Ornaments, by Sally Ann Kueker, Hudson, Iowa. Cover photograph by Mary Ann Blue Gotera, cover design by Sally Ann Kueker. The edition of three hundred copies was printed on white finch opaque vellum by Pecan Grove Press at St. Mary's Univerrsity, San Antonio, Texas. Page 39 Recent books from   Barker, Wendy — Between Frames             2006     ISBN: 1-931247-35-8     $9 Challender, Craig — Dancing on Water             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-20-x     $12 Davis, Glover — Separate Lives             2007     ISBN: 1-931247-36-6     $12 Emmons, Jeanne — Baseball Nights and DDT             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-26-9     $12.50 Essbaum, Jill Alexander — Oh Forbidden             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-29-3     $9 Fargnoli, Patricia — Small Songs of Pain             2004     ISBN: 1-931247-17-x     $10 Gutierrez, Cesar — Lonesome Pine             2006     ISBN: 1-931247-31-5     $9 Marian Haddad — Somewhere Between Mexico and a River Called Home             2004     ISBN: 1-931247-18-8     $15 Hochman, Will — Freer             2006     ISBN: 1-931247-34-x     $15 Hughes, Glenn — Sleeping at the Open Window             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-25-0     $8 Hunley, Tom C. — My Life as a Minor Character             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-27-7     $8 Kasper, Catherine — A Gradual Disappearance of Insects             2005     ISBN: 1-931247-22-6     $8 Kirkpatrick, Kathryn — Beyond Reason             2004     ISBN: 1-931247-09-9     $12 McCann, Janet — Emily's Dress             2004     ISBN: 1-931247-21-8     $8 McVay, Gwyn — Ordinary Beans             2007     ISBN: 1-931247-39-9     $15 Mankiewicz, Angela Consolo — An Eye             2006     ISBN: 1-931247-73-2     $12 Van Prooyer, Laura — Inkblot and Altar             2006     ISBN: 1-931247-37-4     $9 Wayne, Jane — From the Nightstand             2007     ISBN: 1-931247-38-2     $15 Whitbread, Thomas — The Structures Minds Erect             2007     ISBN: 1-931247-24-2     $15 For a complete listing of Pecan Grove Press titles,             please visit our website at http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress Page 41 It's been very interesting to serialize Fighting Kite and to revisit each of the poems. I hope you have enjoyed the tour as well. Also quite interesting to see the titles in print from Pecan Grove Press at the time the book came out. A treat to see some poet friends' names again. The list is a tribute to Palmer Hall's wonderful work as a publisher and editor. He is sorely missed. As always, I'd love to get some feedback or discuss anything with all y'all. Comment, okay? Thanks. Ingat.  FIGHTING KITE   INTRO FRONT CONTENTS PREVIOUS NEXT LAST