Niagara Digressions

A seasoned storyteller's work via cut-up method, combining history and naturalist memoir, "Niagara Digressions" presents land as historical palimpsest, from ancient cave paintings to 1960s mimeographed poetry, the massacre of the buffalo to the manufacture of shredded wheat cereal.

E. R. Baxter III is a Niagara County Community College professor emeritus of English, has been a recipient of a New York State Creative Service Award for fiction and a Just Buffalo Award for Fiction. Previous publications include "Looking for Niagara" (Slipstream Press) and various chapbooks.