Dacotah Territory

by Mark Vinz

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 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 We see ourselves, then, as importers and exporters, seeking the best work from both new and established writers no matter what their place - that unique vitality which partakes of both the local and international simulaneously. In general terms, what brought about Dacotah Territory was a recognition of the talents and energies around us (and the scant number

147 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1982