Great Regulars: [Charlie] Plymell celebrates details of geographic places

in many of his poems, whether Paris, Utah, Baltimore, or Nueva York. Like many Kansans, he is an inveterate traveler, and he has some of the best highway poems. "Not a Regular Kansas Sermon" references Kansas culture in several ways: the subsistence living, with pear cactus and jackrabbits making a meal; and a faith that makes psychological survival possible. He has a declamatory style, with the ability to compress stories to their barest, most gleaming bones.

Not a Regulars Kansas Sermon

For my mother in the hospital

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: Charlie Plymell (1935-- )

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