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Though spiritually akin to prose poems, Robert Vivian’s dervish essays retain an essayistic form while reflecting the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of Turkey’s whirling dervishes with their wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling.

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Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan. He is the author of The Mover of Bones and Lamb Bright Saviors in the Tall Grass Trilogy, as well as the award-winning Cold Snap as Yearning, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

In the tradition of the meditative essay, the writing of Robert Vivian begins with a mundane moment and, through the delicate workings of curiosity, contemplation, and inspiration, reveals unsuspected meaning.In his second collection of essays Vivian finds his occasions in midwestern towns and European cities. He looks for--and sometimes stumbles upon--the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the ...

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of, most recently, The Least Cricket of Evening, and of the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes Lamb Bright Saviors and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of, most recently, The Least Cricket of Evening and the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes The Mover of Bones, Lamb Bright Saviors, and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horse-woman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way, and this collection gives readers the opportunity to share his unique and intriguing vision.

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Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of¿The Mover of Bones (Nebraska 2006) and Cold Snap as Yearning, available in a Bison Books edition.