As a high-school sophomore some forty years ago, I waded into Dave Etter's first book, Go Read the River. It opened up a world mostly unknown to the New-Jersey-native likes of me: the contemporary sm
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology,each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional smal
Poetry. BLUE RAIN is Dave Etter's thirty-second book of poems; his easy, unaffected voice is surely a Midwestern treasure. Who else but Dave Etter could fit all the sufferings and all the sins that fi
