E.R. Baxter III

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Niagara Digressions has been selected by ForeWord Reviews as a finalist for the 2012 Book of the Year Award in the Adult Nonfiction, Ecology and Environment category.

Photographs appearing in Niagara Digressions.
Reading at the Book Corner loft,
Niagara Falls, NY (video)

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Talking To Myself

       I live on the Niagara Frontier, and it's in me, literally, all my life (so far) drinking water out of the kitchen tap from the Niagara River and, as a kid who didn't know better, more than once straight up raw from the gorge river, graphite licked from my lips at International Graphite, furnace room fumes and ore dust inhaled at Pittsburgh Metallurgical during yard gang work, industrial air of Niagara breathed for so long it smelled good, like home, and years in the fields and woods and city streets--this is the place of all my laughter and loves and joys and sorrows. About what or where else would I write?
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       As it turns out, about anything, anybody, or anywhere I feel like writing about, but it all rises from here, originates, is foundationally from here, the place that increasingly these days becomes the imagined landscape I call home.

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For an autographed copy of Niagara Lost and Found: New and Selected Poems (and a pair of distinctive bookmarks), please send a $15.00 money order payable to E.R. Baxter III to: NL&F, PO Box 54, Ransomville, NY 14131. (Please enclose a note if you'd like the book signed "for" someone, and that person's name.)

For Niagara Frontier readers: Niagara Digressions and Niagara Lost and Found: New and Selected Poems available at the following locations:
Niagara Falls: The Book Corner, 1801 Main St., Niagara Falls, NY 14305
Lockport: Market Street Art Center, 247 Market St., Lockport, NY 14094
Buffalo: Talking Leaves Bookstore, 3158 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214