Another City - Softcover

Born and raised in a Boston suburb, Steve Coughlin received his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho and his Ph.D. from Ohio University. He now teaches writing and literature at Chadron State College in northwestern Nebraska.

"Steve Coughlin's Another City is an auspicious debut. These poems--centering on a particular family tragedy--achieve archetypal status through their combination of unflinching observation (and self-observation--including a refreshingly honest picture of the poet as adolescent) and vast, almost irrational sympathy for an imperfect family that could just as easily have been yours or mine. At once amusing and heartbreaking, this book is so consistently lively and alive I found it impossible to put down."            --Lloyd Schwartz, author of Cairo Traffic

"A few years ago I happened upon a poem called "For the El Camino." That poem did to me what Chapman's Homer did to Keats. Since then, anyone who's taken a writing class or a workshop with me . . . has heard me explain in great detail why I think it's one of the finest American odes of the past decade or so. I've been waiting impatiently for a book to go with that ode, to usher it into the world. And with appearance of Another City, Steve Coughlin's lovely, tender beauty of a book, I'm happy to say my wait is over."
                          --George Bilgere, author of Imperial