Alvin Turner as Farmer

                                              
                                                    
    a book of 60 poems by William Kloefkorn
originally published in 1972 by Road Runner 
Press in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as a special   
Road Apple Review  summer 1972 vol. iv no. 2
edited by Terry Smith and Brian Salchert
is its author's first collection of poems.
At that time Mr. Kloefkorn was a teacher at
Nebraska Wesleyan, and Bill Evans, who was
a friend and colleague there, contributed
8 pen and ink sketches.  See cover image.
                                          
Subsequently, because this book was popular,
in 1974 it was republished by Ted Kooser's 
Windflower Press.                           
                                             
In 2004 Logan House Press published it a
third time.                                
                                         
Here is a short poem from the book:          
                                           
                                       
(15)                                
                                  
After a difference
We go together as
We fall apart:  with words.
They are clear and clipped and
Gently strange,
And hearing them I think
Their sound is like the little noise
Of needles, knitting.                      
                                               
                                        
                                       
                                       
                                               
                                               
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