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Rielly, Edward (1943 - )
Genre: Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
Born in Wisconsin, Rielly earned a B.A. from Loras College (Dubuque, IA) in 1968 and a masters and Ph.D. (1974) in English from the Univ. of Notre Dame. He first taught in an elementary school, then a high school, and then at Ambrose College (Davenport, IA).
He moved to Maine in 1978 and lives in Westbrook; he is a professor of English at St. Joseph's College in Standish.
His works include many articles, book reviews, and short stories, as well as poetry, a literature text, and a baseball dictionary.
Selected Bibliography
- Rain Falling Quietly (1985)
- Family Portrait (1987)
- The Furrow's Edge (1987)
- The Breaking of Glass Horse and other poems (1988)
- Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1988)
- My Struggling Soil (1994)
- Anniversary Haiku (1997)
- How the Sky Holds the Sun (1998)
- Baseball: A Dictionary of Popular Culture (2000)
- cite>Abandoned Farmhouse and Other Haiku (2000)
- The 1960s (Dec. 2002)
- Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (2003)
- A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems About Haying And Other Matters (2003)
- Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm (2005)
- Sitting Bull: a Biography (2007)
