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Parallel Press releases Eat & Remember by Carl Lindner

Posted 5/9/2001

Cover of MADISON, Wis.-- Poet Carl Lindner engages readers with word play and witty fun in Eat & Remember, the thirteenth chapbook of the Parallel Press. Lindner weaves threads of self-examination, parables for living and gentle iconoclasm with clearly recognizable images in this 17-piece collection.

A chapbook is a small-format literary work, usually of poetry or essays. The chapbooks are published by the Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison libraries.

Lindner is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where he teaches American literature, creative writing (poetry) and composition. He is the author of two chapbooks titled, Vampire and The Only Game, one full-length collection, Shooting Baskets in a Dark Gymnasium,and he will soon release another collection titled, Angling Into Light. Lindner has also contributed nearly 200 poems to literary journals. Lindner was recognized for his poetry by the Wisconsin Arts Board with a fellowship in 1981. He was also honored by UW-Parkside with an award for Creative Activity in 1996.

Here's a sample poem from Eat & Remember:

Academic Matters

I . The Administrator and the Back Burner Stove

It was a stove
unlike all others,
dozens of burners
and all in back,
so far back
we couldn't even see them,
could only take
the cook's word
they were even there
and what has cooking on them,
skillets and pots and kettles
all going merrily, a whole
banquet at once, delights
beyond belief, enough
to make us lick
our lips, enough
to make our palates water.
He was preparing a feast.
He was cooking
all the time on this
one-of-a-kind stove.
Even as we slept,
he kept cooking on those burners in back,
cooking up one thing
after another for us
who kept getting hungrier
to see and taste
what he would dish up
for us when the time came.
Whenever we asked him “When?”
he smiled “Not yet” and hurried
off to his soups and stews.
He said a lot of things, brandishing
ladles and spoons, sharpening
knives, bustling about
under his high, white, puffy hat.

Each Parallel Press chapbook is $10; annual subscriptions for six are $50. Titles may be ordered by writing:

The Parallel Press
372 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706

For information, see their Web site at http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu, or phone (608) 262-2600. E-mail inquiries may be sent to kfrazier@library.wisc.edu.

 

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