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Neil Nakadate and Mary Swander Contribute Work to Anthology, Letters to a Young Iowan
This book makes it abundantly clear what a wide range of lively, engaging and engaged souls live in the land between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The voices linger in my spirit like a big choir and all the notes, the harmonies and the dissonance together say more about my home state than any other single volume I have seen. --Greg Brown, Iowa singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy nominee
Nakadate, Neil. "You Might Try Leaving." In Letters to a Young Iowan, edited by Zachary Michael Jack. North Liberty, Iowa: Ice Cube Press, 2007. 179-80.
What’s the single most important piece of advice you would share with a young Iowan growing up or coming of age in the Hawkeye state? Editor and author Zachary Michael Jack posed this timeless question to more than 100 Iowa luminaries, asking them to respond in a letter to all Iowans.
The result—a once-in-a-lifetime collection of common sense and hard-won wisdom penned for young people everywhere by a who’s who of contemporary Iowans, including the likes of Robert D. Ray, Dan Gable, Mary Swander, and Christie Vilsack. Ranging from the mundane—how to walk a gravel road—to the comically profane—what Iowa men have in common with Iowa pigs—to the sublime—how an ethic of care redeems us—the letters and photographs in Letters To A Young Iowan tell the story of a state known far and wide for its down-to-earth nurture and its high-flying dreams.
Other Publication News from Neil Nakadate:
"Thank You" (poem). Aethlon 24 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007): 133.
"Chief Joseph Slept Here" (poem). Cottonwood 65 (Spring 2007): 20.
