Publisher's Synopsis
"The Prairie: Then & Now is a collection of poems in two parts. In the first section, Guillory shows the prarie how it was in the nineteenth century. In the second, he takes on a more experimental style to depict life in Illinois Country from the 1950s and on. A story or annotation preceeds each poem, which provides historical and cultural background information that sets the poem in context and allows for a rich and enlightening, though highly accessible, read."--Amazon.