GULL ISLAND PRESS

ADVANCE THE ENGINE SUMMER

Michael Leggs

"Advance the Engine Summer" is the first published collection of poems by Saint Paul, Minnesota writer/musician Michael Leggs. He teaches English at Saint Paul College, and earned his M.A. in English at Kansas State University as a recipient of the William H. Hickok Creative Writing Fellowship. This collection includes selections previously published in The Argotist, Pith, and American Drivel Review.

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"Leggs builds something here that is rare in modern poetic diction: delicate bridges from which we can view fantastic falls. . . [His lines] extend to the reader a gossamer machinery, which, once entrusted can transport you deeply into worlds that are both wondrous and proximate."  - J. Rod Clark, BookReview.com