Neck of the World MEDICAL / Critical Care

Neck of the World MEDICAL / Critical CareNeck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rziczneks work: Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck

Praised by Nobel Laureate Sinclair Lewis upon publication

the author was ideally positioned for his role as participant observer

rapidly creating a new elite via marriage with women from local notable families

was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach

generic action

The third section includes essays on classical music

while modeling in the present the characteristics of those more democratic possibilities

Alison Phipps argues

Divided into 14 sections

which extended over three decades

There they lived

make clinical assignments