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All of the poems in this collection were originally published in Dacotah Territory Magazine; we decided against selecting any poems we reprinted from other magazines or books, and also against selecting either prose poems or translations. What we sought was always two-fold: to tap into the poetry of place flourishing around us, but never to be simply limited by it; to take a stand against the placelessness of American society, but not with "down-homeism," or ... with any kind of ism. A sense of place as we tried to define it, then, was quite different from many people's notion of regionalism, and it was that end we sought:
In general terms, what brought about Dacotah Territory was a recognition of the talents and energies around us (and the scant number of publishing outlets in the Midwest), and the gradual exploration of the term "a sense of place" and its implications. |
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