Poetically recreates the sufferings and hardships endured by the Donner Party while trapped in the Sierras during winter

The Donner Party

Literature & Fiction

Keithley, George

Poetry

George Braziller

Caught in the middle of the American Revolution against the English Crown, two families are divided by their loyalties. Dake Bradford, a blazing American patriot under the command of George Washington, has taken a stand against the British. Clive Gordon, a young physician and Dake's first cousin, is the son of an English colonel who has sworn to put down the rebellion. Fanned by fires of patriotism, sides have been drawn, and there can be no turning back. These fiery loyalties break out into open conflict when the Bradfords and Gordons find themselves on opposing sides at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The conflict widens as both Dake and Clive court the affections of Jeanne Corbeau, a French beauty. Will the long, dangerous journey to Fort Ticonderoga decide their futures?

Song in a Strange Land

Song in a strange land

G. Braziller

The Donner Party (poetry)

“One of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever-written.”―Poetry First published in 1970, The Donner Party is the story of a wagon train, led by George Donner, which set out from Springfield, Illinois, in 1846, headed for California. George Keithley’s restrained and vivid narrative poem is a harrowing portrait of a group that was pushed to extreme measures in order to survive.

George Braziller, Inc.

The poems in The Starry Messenger explore the many facets of Galileo Galilei's life and times-his troubled childhood, his appetites and love affairs, his early scientific discoveries, his famed exploration of the heavens, his house arrest, his blindness. Emphasizing Galileo's independent nature and his affection for his mistress and daughter, George Keithley provides one of the most personal portraits of the astronomer ever written. In the process, he depicts the sensuous world of religion, magic, and science that was seventeenth-century Florence, Padua, Venice, Ostia, and Rome.

The Starry Messenger (Pitt Poetry Series)

University of Pittsburgh Press

To Bring Spring

Holmgangers Pr

Earth's Eye

Story Line Press

Ring of Fire is a fascinating and complex story. It’s a great read, but probably more importantly, it resonates. I’ve found myself mulling over the characters, their actions, their fates, long after finishing the novel. —Clark Brown, author of the novel The Disciple and the short story collection Down in the Valley George Keithley (is)~ precise and evocative; and I like the fact that he knows the American experience...a western writer who doesn’t write Westerns. —Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angle of Repose Keithley’s talent is remarkable... —Joyce Carol Oates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award author Not only is George Keithley one of North America’s most soulful writers, he is exquisitely imaginative. —Al Young, California Poet Laureate and author of the best-selling novel Sitting Pretty So stunning...So rare in this day of atrophied emotion and numbed feeling. —The Washington Post Keithley explores many themes: the transitoriness of life, the predatory nature of man and animal, the all—encompassing finality of death, and the ability, distinctly human, of transcendence. —Small Press Review

Ring of Fire

Literary

Plainview Press

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