Dacotah Territory

All of the poems in this collection were originally published in Dacotah Territory Magazine; we decided against selecting any poems we reprinted from other magazines or books, and also against selecting either prose poems or translations. What we sought was always two-fold: to tap into the poetry of place flourishing around us, but never to be simply limited by it; to take a stand against the placelessness of American society, but not with "down-homeism," or ... with any kind of ism. A sense of place as we tried to define it, then, was quite different from many people's notion of regionalism, and it was that end we sought: We see ourselves, then, as importers and exporters, seeking the best work from both new and established writers no matter what their place - that unique vitality which partakes of both the local and international simulaneously. In general terms, what brought about Dacotah Territory was a recognition of the talents and energies around us (and the scant number