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ABOUT CRAIG CHALLENDER
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Dancing on Water 978-1-931247-20-7 $12.00 "Dancing and music permeate Craig Challender’s important new collection, Dancing on Water. Fatherhood and family life lie at the center of this book where home life is not a burden, but a complex source of joy. Revealing a willingness to love even those who cannot be claimed as blood kin, lyrical poems about adopting two daughters, and the birth of another provide epiphanic moments of affirmation. Never compromising tenderness, Challender does not exploit the heart, knowing that real dancers dance alone, even in love. Transporting us from everyday experience, Challender binds us to his world by sensual detail while he plays cards or passes a burlap wrapped jug back and forth with his father. Deeply rooted in place, his poems detail the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Outer Banks, the death of a lone swimmer in Lake Lakota, and drinking Blatz beer at a bowling alley in South Dakota. Because the poems refuse to let passion and laughter get swallowed up by dailiness, Dancing on Water stays lodged in our minds, anchored in our hearts, reminding us why we need to dance, even in a world that threatens to drown our songs."
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