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Parallel Press Publishes A Catch in the Throat of Allah
Posted 09/22/2010
MADISON, Wis. – In the most recent chapbook from Parallel Press, Lynn Shoemaker examines the stages of grief, anger, and frustration in the wake of 9/11; “I admit that at first we wanted to kill you. You and you / and you. What is your word for it? Payback.”
Through the prose poems in A Catch in the Throat of Allah, Shoemaker analyzes the way in which humans cope with catastrophe, redemption and the strong need to try and push back the darkness; how we must “care” our way to a better world.
Lynn Shoemaker grew up in a small South Dakota town and moved to Wisconsin after spending time as a student, an activist, and a journeyman teacher. He is retired from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he was a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures. He has been writing and publishing poetry for nearly half of a century. Shoemaker has also been working in the peace movement for almost as long as he has been writing. In 2005 he joined a Christian Peacemaker Team delegation that worked for a short time in Iraq. His last published book of poetry is called Hands (Lynx House Press, 1982). He recently became a proud grandfather to grandson Gabe.
Parallel Press is an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. For more information, visit http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/poetry.
