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Welcome to my
home page. Here
you'll find some work I've done, information
about books I've published and classes I teach, and eventually, I hope,
more.
Like most other things in my life, this page is
critiqued more often than it is revised, let alone
improved. Still, I keep piddling and tinkering. Hope springs.
For my course web pages and
information, click here.
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Spoken
among the Trees, with poems written over the
past several years, was released in fall 2007
as
part of the Akron Poetry Series. Click here for the
University of Akron Press description and ordering information, or here
and here
for a few sample poems. If you'd like a signed copy, contact me here.
The
title poem of Spoken among the
Trees, "Night, the Astonishing . . . ," appeared on Verse
Daily on August 15, 2008, and should be available in their
archives for some time.
New: Spoken among the Trees won the Society of Midland
Authors 2007 Poetry Award, given each year for the best
book of poems in the 12-state Midwestern region. I missed the award dinner
in Chicago, unfortunately, because of my Fulbright lectureship at the
University of Salzburg, where my wife Marlyce and I spent March-June of
2008.
That was just about the only disappointment of what was otherwise a
wonderful time. I
taught three courses in the American Studies department, and we had the
chance to travel a good bit, both in Austria and in neighboring
countries. I kept a somewhat
intermittent travel blog with text and photos that is still available here, though I will
probably not be making more entries, since we are now back in Ohio.
Here's one token photograph--taken on a sunny Sunday about 4/5 of the
way to the top of the Gaisberg, the mountain on the northeast side of
Salzburg. Marlyce, who took the photo, was about thirty feet closer to
the top than I was--which seemed like a long way at the time.
Deerflies won the
2003 Editions Poetry Prize and the
2005 Nancy Dasher Award, given by
the College English Association of Ohio for the best book of the year
in the creative writing category. Click
here to go
to the Wordtech
Editions page with more information, comments, and links to sample
poems and the book's Amazon.com page.
Here is a review
of Deerflies by Raylene
Hinz-Penner.
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 Walker
in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing
(Cascadia, 2005) gathers my
thinking and writing about Mennonite literature. One piece from the
book, "Heresy
and the Individual Talent," appeared online in Mennonite Life. Click here for more
information and an order form.
Walker
in the Fog was chosen for the 2006 Dale W.
Brown Award, given by Elizabethtown College for "outstanding
scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist studies." Here's a news
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My
chapbook Greatest
Hits 1984-2003
appeared in 2003 in Pudding House's Greatest Hits series. It includes a
dozen poems and an introductory essay. For ordering information, click here.
Other recent books and related links:
Scattering Point:
The World in a Mennonite Eye
SUNY Press, 2003
Essays on Anabaptist history,
landscape, my Amish roots and Mennonite ancestors in Illinois, Alsace,
and south Germany--as well as raspberries, baby chicks, depression, the
relation between birds and souls, and much more.
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Rhapsody with Dark
Matter Bottom
Dog Press, 2000.
From "Rain":
And a stray face spins me back to the
black-haired girl
I saw long ago and stood helpless
watching her pass, bareheaded in the rain,
the easy way she found, wet but not hunched
against it, hair damp and shining on her brow,
her shoulders. I wanted to give something
for the dark rain of that hair . . .
A link to "Lemons"
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A Community of Memory : My Days with
George and Clara
Illinois, 1996
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Updated! Poems and
prose excerpts from various sources.
An excerpt from an
essay on my work by David Wright
Course
materials and links
New! LAS
302-02 Issues in Modern America Newly
updated for spring 2009.
New! Modern Lit:
Surrealism to Slipstream Information Click here for information
and
links related to English 265, surrealism, magic realism, and slipstream
fiction.
LAS 301-01 Issues in Modern America
Ongoing
site for this course for spring 2006.
Mennonite
Literature Page Recently updated page for ENG 265: Studies in
Modern Lit: Mennonite Literature.
Home
Page for Goshen Poetry Workshop, April 2004
Course information for Fall
2003 courses:
Bluffton College students will also find course-related materials
through Jenzabar.
Information for recent courses:
College English Opinion
Pieces Some links scouted out by my Fall
2002 College English class.
First Year Seminar 2002
Resources related to this course.
Technology
Learning Circles Site with information about this group's special
projects in the 2001-02 school year.
ENG
120 Advanced College English Spring 2002 site for this course,
created by Jessica Basinger.
ENG 243-01 Studies in American
Literature: Heroism and Humility Spring 2002 site for this course.
ENG 321-01
Studies in Poetry: Poems of Our Time Links related to modern and
contemporary poetry.
The Pleasures of Words Web page
for a graduate workshop on writing and teaching poetry I taught in
March 2001.
Course information for
1999-2000 courses:
ENG 401 Critical Theory
LAS 100-04 First Year Seminar Links and
images related to First Year Seminar.
Course information for
1998-99 courses:
ENG 205 Expository Writing Spring 1999
Themes in Literature: Mennonite
Literature
English 180 Fall 1998
Course information for 1996-97 courses:
Humanities III
Information Click here for the Humanities III FAQ, schedule,
syllabus, and links to more humanities sites.
American
Studies: Literature: Vietnam and Beyond Click here for information
and links related to EDU 630.
For information about "Mennonite/s Writing: Beyond Borders,"
a
conference held at Bluffton University on Oct. 26-29, 2006, click here.
For the source list I
compiled for my "Versions of Wonder" workshop at the 2007 Cornerstone
Festival Imaginarium
, click here.
For
Bluffton Pirate soccer information, click here.
For some photos from our 1999 trip
to Europe, click here.
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at gundyj@bluffton.edu
This page created with Netscape Composer 7.2, persistence,
aggravation, ingenuity and pure dumb luck.
Last modified 15 August 2008