Crawling Out the Window

by Tom Hennen

Anticipation is often not rewarded. But in the case of obtaining "The Life of a Day" a year after I heard it read on Garrison Keiler's Writer's Almanac,as a selection from CRAWLING OUT THE WINDOW by Tom Hennen, not only was the original excerpt as good as anticipated; but there were 50 more of these wonderful prose poems. Tom Hennen's haiku-like descriptions of the mid-west prairie are universal and can be related to any natural setting. The thoughts and feelings behind these descriptions need to be heard in this era of increasing alienation from Nature.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Born into a big Dutch-Irish family in 1942 in Morris, Minnesota, Tom Hennen grew up on farms. After abandoning college, he married and began work as a letterpress and offset printer in 1965. In 1972 he helped found the Minnesota Writers’ Publishing House, printing with a press stashed in his garage work that included his first chapbook, The Heron with No Business Sense. He worked for the Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division in the 1970s and later worked as a wildlife technician at the Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Now retired, he lives in St. Paul near his children and grandchildren.