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The Horizontal World
Debra Marquart grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota—on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely. "[A] rich memoir, set in North Dakota, about growing up on and escaping from a family farm for a future that held once unheard–of opportunities as a rock musician, poet, and English teacher." —Chicago Sun–Times
Everything's a Verb
Marquart looks forward to finding her place in society as a strong, independent woman and confronts some of the harsher realities of what that experience means in our world.... A stunning debut for a poet we'll all want to follow.--Mary Swande
The Night We Landed on the Moon
Debra Marquart's newest memoir, an assemblage of essays, explores the space between states of exile and belonging, the seemingly irresolvable dilemma of the restless homebody. Marquart was born into a family of land-loving people-farmers known as the ethnic group Germans-from-Russia-who had emigrated from Russia to the United States between 1886 and 1911 and taken up land claims in Dakota Territory. Her grandparents tended their farms and fields, never dreaming of moving another inch away from the homes they had made. By contrast, Marquart grew up a restless, imaginative child in that same agricultural place, yearning to strike out for places more interesting as soon as she was old enough to...
The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories
Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band—the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not taken on the grandeur they’d envisioned.
The Hunger Bone
Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band--the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not taken on the grandeur they'denvisioned. Debra Marquart toured with several rock and heavy metal bands during the 1970s and 1980s. She previously published a book of poetry,Everything's a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995), and currently teaches creative writing at Iowa State University. She is the poetry editor of theFlyway Literary Review.
North Dakota History
Journal of the Northern Plains.
Annual Report
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