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The Blue Staircase & other poems is a collection of thirty-six poems that examine the author's personal relationship with Salem, the historical and literary city in northern Massachusetts. Sheldon asks of himself, as well as his audience, ""Is there a Salem still?"" Tackling its historical, as well as literary heritage, Sheldon takes on the persona of Giles Corey in the title poem (a Puritan farmer and family man convicted and ultimately crushed to death during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692). Elsewhere Sheldon investigates his childhood as a Salem native and interrogates his own literary position to many Massachusetts' authors, from Hawthorne to Lowell, from Emerson to Frost, from his own contemporary position as a Midwestern transplant.

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Glenn Sheldon was Professor of Humanities in Honors at The University of Toledo. Currently he resides in Toledo, Ohio, with his many ""Buddhas in fur."" In addition to several chapbooks, Glenn has published two full-length poetry collections, Bird Scarer (Cervana Barva Press) and Angel of Anarchy (Ahadada Books, 2012). His individual poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including: Bombay Gin, Boston Literary Review, Café Review, Chiron Review, Field, James White Review, Janus Head, Limestone, Madison Review, Marquee, Mudfish, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, Rio Grande Review, Santa Clara Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Whiskey Island and Xavier Review.

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