Courtesy Anthony Bukoski
“A century and a half ago, whoever laid out the city grid for Superior made sure that there would be plenty of room in the town for loneliness,” says Nick Hayes in his profile of Superior’s East End writer Anthony Bukoski in the June 18 MinnPost. He goes on to spotlight the end of town not on any tourist maps, and the Polish ghosts and Bukoski characters who inhabit it.
Great profile, Tony! How wonderful to keep those characters and places living. I must confess after all these years that at Iowa it ticked me off that a guy from Superior, Wisconsin, knew more about Southern literature than I did. All the best.
Dear Ross,
I just now happened upon your comment. I’m not one for computers, so you can understand why I only read the comment now. I ended up teaching a year in the most beautiful small southern town, Natchitoches, Louisiana. We’d have remained there, but when the oil bust occurred in 1986, many of us at the college lost our jobs. All turned out well, however. We returned to Yankeeland, which afforded me a chance to write first-hand about my hometown.
You’re in our thoughts.
Tony and Elaine