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Availability:In StockContributor:Fred Dale, Sara Moore WagnerPublish date:2026-01-27Pages:92
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Driftwood PressISBN-13:9781949065404ISBN-10:1949065405UPC:9781949065404Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & Nature, PlacesSize:9.00 x 7.38 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.37Product ID:SCYQ4F5DX1
Fred Dale's full-length poetry collection say, said, winner of the Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize is a lyrical exploration of a life through a blending of voices, pop culture, and language experimentation.

Dale utilizes form by playing with punctuation and spacing to create something both uniform and surprising. A lifetime collapses into a sequence of stories told by a distinct and powerful speaker.

This collection, in its interrogation of a life, is lush and imagistic, with themes of masculinity, family, love, the natural world and Catholic iconography. Saints populate the rugged American territory. The speaker searches for truth in the past and, in doing so, invites the reader into a contemplation built on genuine understanding.

Dale's voice is meditative and searching. It is also, at times, comic. This book is populated with characters who speak through persona, and with natural metaphors, birds, fish, and bees, which splash and flit through every page.

say, said does not focus on a single place, rather, it travels through America, particularly the South, like a road trip through memory and the interactions that make a life.

say, said is for fans of lyric poetry, history, religion, myth, and for anyone wanting to understand what it means to cultivate a meaningful, loving life.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Driftwood PressISBN-13:9781949065404ISBN-10:1949065405UPC:9781949065404Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & Nature, PlacesSize:9.00 x 7.38 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.37Product ID:SCYQ4F5DX1
Dale, Fred: - Fred Dale is a husband to his wife, Valerie, a father to my good dog, Miss Trixie, and a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of North Florida. He holds an MFA from the University of Tampa, but mostly, he just grade papers. His work has appeared in Spillway, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Summerset Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and others. He has published two audio chapbooks: The Dream of Blue Moon Flowers and A Boy's Pirating Eye. Three of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.Wagner, Sara Moore: - Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022), and of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Smartish Pace, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, and North American Review, among others. In 2023, she became the Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press.
Publisher: Driftwood Press

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