Dan Guenther

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Dan Guenther
Born1944 (age 79–80)
Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
EducationCoe College
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)

Dan Guenther (born 1944 in

Stone Reader by Mark Moskowitz. The film chronicled the director's attempt to revive and have republished the acclaimed book of seemingly vanished author Dow Mossman
, a lifelong friend of Dan Guenther. The revival was successful.

High Country Solitudes (Grand River, 1997) is Dan Guenther's first book of poetry. He also has published poems in small magazines [1] [2] and anthologies, most recently, Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West, Ghost Road Press, 2007, and The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001 – 2010, Quadrant Books, 2012, Sydney, Australia.

China Wind, the first novel in the Vietnam trilogy, was originally published in 1990. Dodge City Blues, the second novel in the trilogy, was published in 2007 and has been praised by Veteran Magazine for its realism.[3] The third novel, Townsend's Solitaire, was published in 2008 and has been described by Veteran Magazine as Sam Gatlin's "readjustment blues."

Glossy Black Cockatoos, Guenther's fourth novel, was published in late 2009. It is set in Australia and Asia, among the Hmong. The Colorado Authors' League judged Glossy Black Cockatoos the Best Genre Fiction of 2010.

The Crooked Truth, Dan Guenther's second volume of poetry, was the 2011 winner for Poetry book in the Colorado Authors' League open competition. About The Crooked Truth, Vietnam Veterans Magazine literary critic David Willson stated, "There is no mawkish sentimentality anywhere in this little book because of Guenther’s plain-yet-elegant language. Dan Guenther remains one of the finest poets of the Vietnam War."[4]

Bibliography

Fiction
  • China Wind, (Ivy Books, 1990); Redburn Press, 2006
  • Dodge City Blues, Redburn Press, 2007
  • Townsend's Solitaire, Redburn Press, 2008
  • Glossy Black Cockatoos, Redburn Press, 2009
Poetry
  • High Country Solitudes, Grand River Press, 1997
  • The Crooked Truth, Redburn Press, 2010
Anthologies containing poetry
  • Open Range: Poetry Of The Reimagined West, Ghost Road Press
  • The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001 – 2010, Quadrant Books, Sydney, Australia
Anthologies containing essays
  • An Elevated View, Colorado Writers on Writing, Seven Oaks Publishing, 2011
Documentary Film Credits

Stone Reader
(2002)

Awards

Colorado Author Award 2008

Colorado Author Best Genre Fiction 2010

Colorado Author Award 2011

Military awards and decorations

References

  1. ^ a b "Colorado Poets Center : Dan Guenther". University of Northern Colorado. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  2. ^ "Poetry, Quadrant Magazine".
    ISSN 0033-5002
    . Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  3. ISSN 1069-0220. Archived from the original
    on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  4. ^ David Willson (June 25, 2011). "The Crooked Truth: Selected Poems by Dan Guenther". The VVA Veteran.
    ISSN 1069-0220
    . Retrieved 2011-11-26.

External links
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