The Imprint of Alan Swallow: Quality Publishing in the West

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alan swallow Qua l i t y Pu b l i s h i ng i n t h e W e s t W. D A L E N E L S O N Foreword by Marilyn Auer Syracuse University Press t h e i m pr i n t o f Copyright © 2010 by W. Dale Nelson Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2010 10 11 12 13 14 15 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-0952-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, W. Dale. The imprint of Alan Swallow : quality publishing in the West / W. Dale Nelson ; foreword by Marilyn Auer. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197) and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-0952-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Swallow, Alan, 1915–1966. 2. Publishers and publishing— Colorado—Denver—Biography. I. Title. Z473.S95N45 2010 070.5092—dc22 2010026330 Manufactured in the United States of America For Joyce, Who Named This Book And I, who read and published words, Worked warm within that marvelous air. —Alan Swallow All should be known about him, the great and the not so great. —Vardis Fisher W. Dale Nelson spent forty years as a reporter for the Associated Press. During twenty years in Washington, he won the Aldo Beckman Award for excellence in reporting about the presidency. His poetry has appeared widely in general and literary magazines in the United States and Canada, and has been published in England and Australia. It has won awards from Poetry Northwest, Plainsongs, and Visions, among others. The author received a creative writing fellowship in poetry from the Wyoming Arts Council. His previous books published by Syracuse University Press are The President Is at Camp David, Who Speaks for the President? and Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom. He and his wife, Joyce Miller Nelson, a painter and writer, live in Laramie, Wyoming. ...