Book description
Chad Allen Elliott's path to poetry began with a love of music. He has performed original songs across the U.S. for over 20-years, winning several awards for composition including the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Award in 2009. Early in his career, he learned some verses do not need musical embellishment. They…
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I was drawn in by poet Chad Elliott’s heartache for his homeland in rural Iowa, a sense of place for ancestral longings of the generations before him.
His poems are a compelling exploration of three generations—a sense of loss as a son, a “rough aesthetic" deeply missing as a man, and hope as a father.
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