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Fredrick Zydek has a
delicacy with words. He has lived and worked to master them, has
uncovered their unavailable intricacies
he pleases by
distinctive phrasing and by control of the language. Richard Eberhart,
Annex 21
FREDRICK
ZYDEK has published more than eight hundred works, including
four collections of poetry, personal essays, academic articles,
plays, fiction, and the
occasional review. Im either incredibly
prolific or incredibly old,
he muses. After having spent several years at the University of
Nebraska and the College of Saint Mary, he now writes full-time
and edits the Lone Willow Press. A recipient of The Hart
Crane Poetry Award and the Sarah Foley OLoughlen Literary Award,
Zydek lives in Omaha,
Nebraska.
The
Bible Student /
Fredrick Zydek
He was a man hell
bent
on understanding
the logic of damnation.
When he couldnt,
he
threw the book away,
including the Psalms.
He threw away tran-
scendence and the story
of the fall, the fable
of the angel sent to
keep
Adam and Eve
from ever returning home.
Any god who would
punish
innocent curiosity with death
was less than God to him.
He threw away
celebrating
the slaughter of lambs
and took to exalting the life
force inside them
instead.
It was as if he'd thrown away
chains and could suddenly fly.
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