Settlers

F. Daniel Rzicznek Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-014-5 (paperback, $14.00); 978-1-64317-015-2 (PDF, $9.99). (c) 2019 by Parlor Press. 89 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews Heavy Feather Review, reviewed by Esteban Rodriguez, June, 2019. What People Are Saying Reading F. Daniel Rzicznek’s Settlers is like putting on a pair of X-ray goggles and suddenly seeing our surroundings—lake, snow, buttermilk, car, dog—in a radically different light. By telescoping multiple time scales onto the same place, whether an imagined world without humans, a past of Civil War soldiers, or today’s acts of gun violence, these poems expand what is possible in landscape poetry and offer a deeply-felt ethical stance. “Every where is a ceaseless center—,” Rzicznek writes, and so poetry, this splendid book tells us, must be a ceaseless act of inclusiveness. —Tung-Hui Hu Reading Settlers is a