Produce Wagon

“In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the page is poetry’s equivalent to the enlightenment of the senses.”—Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews
“What is wonderful about a ‘produce wagon’ is its approachability, where we may select this fruit, that melon, to sample—and it’s all so good; otherwise, the produce would never have made it to the wagon. Roy Scheele’s Produce Wagon is like that. Every poem is delicious.”—Mark Sanders, Western American Literature
"Produce Wagon made me smile poem after poem and will bring up wonderful memories of family and love."—karla k. Morton, Roundup Magazine
“Roy Scheele is a poet of deep observation and patient discernment. Exquisite in prosody and immaculate in precision, each poem is a hall of mirrors where memory and desire refract off the sharp edges of the observable world.”—Nina Murray, author of Alcestis in the Underworld
“A lifetime’s collection of small and precious things: the pinpoints of the senses, the topography of the soul, these myriad wonders of eloquent plainsong—Roy Scheele’s incomparable, revelatory landscapes of acuity and affection.”—Stephen Behrendt, author of Refractions and other collections
“Ted Kooser’s observation has it right: this gorgeous book is first and always music, but enriched by unforgettable imagery, compelling narrative, and ekphrasis. Scheele creates Nebraska—that former sea now prairie—as the setting of the poet’s life, here hauntingly worded, inhabited, and enlivened by intimate memory.”—Rhina P. Espaillat, author of And After All