<p>Carol Durak, John P Harn, and Rodger Moody, originally from Michigan and Indiana, studied poetry at the University of Oregon in the late 1970s where they were advisees of the late Ralph Salisbury. Now, forty-five years later, keeping the faith, they have gathered a selection of their diverse work into a single volume, <em>Three Chapbooks / Three Poets. </em></p><p><br></p><p>"Each of these diverse, superbly-crafted chapbooks brim with intimacy. Moody's work, written in sevenlings, offers probing, witty, and sometimes dark observations of rural America where<em> the countryside belongs to the swallows</em>. Durak's work, intelligent and introspective, leads us to a fabled crossroads where she contemplates, what is more diligent than dust, and asks, what is <em>more within you / than your path beyond compass?</em> Harn's poems, full of philosophical investigations, claim that <em>sometimes we need to see the marrow splayed</em> to understand our place in the universe, that we face our mortality<em> lips parted, about to say something / to the wind</em>. Like a jazz trio, each chapbook is a distinct instrument, unique but in sync with the others, and the beat is never lost." - Michael Spring, author of <em>dentro do som / into the sound</em> and <em>Kahlo's Widow</em></p>