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Sheila Packa has received two Loft McKnight Fellowships, in both poetry and prose, and numerous other awards. She was Duluth's Poet Laureate of 2010-2012. According to Leah Rogne, PhD, of Minnesota State University in Mankato, "Sheila Packa's poetry is at once deeply personal and widely universal in its evocative exploration of fundamental human experience. Using the red ore dust with which she was raised, she paints vivid images of birth and death, work and struggle, hope and despair. Packa captures the unrest of immigrants leaving their homes in Finland and the unrest of the bitter labor union conflicts of the early days of twentieth century on the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota. At the same as she chronicles events from the broad sweep of history as the country extracted iron ore from the ground and labor from the immigrants, she shares tender stories from daily life, using the micro-lens of her personal experience. "Especially arresting is the way Packa weaves into her book material from historical sources, including newspaper accounts of the union organizing efforts of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and reports on the gritty work of physicians who tended to the medical needs of

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Author

Sheila Packa

Publisher

Wildwood River Press; Wildwood River

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780984377770

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.17 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14