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Gravedigger's Daughter:
Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town
by Cheryl Unruh
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 1:00pm
Lyon County History Center and Museum
711 Commercial, Emporia, Kansas
Presentation and Book Launch
For our Wednesday excerpt, we share a few poems from Cheryl's new book. Enjoy!
Praise for:
—Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone
Cheryl Unruh is one of the great chroniclers of life under
the Kansas sky, a travel guide into the hearts and minds of people minted on
the prairie. A long-time columnist for the Emporia Gazette, Unruh’s “dad
poems” in Gravedigger’s Daughter remind me of another Kansas journalist,
Elfriede Fisher Rowe, who published micro-narratives about people and events in
Lawrence. In her new collection, Unruh creates not only an archive of the
relationship with her father, but through those remembrances paints the history
of Pawnee Rock, her hometown, one four-paragraph brush stroke at a time.
—George Frazier, author of The Last Wild Places of
Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes
Cheryl, received your Gravedigger's Daughter book today. Trying to stop reading it. I don't like poetry, but I love yours. Jim
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