Bill Hotchkiss

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Bill Hotchkiss was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1936, but grew up on a small farm near Grass Valley, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. As a boy he became an incessant walker of the woods, a practice he continued for the rest of his life. After high school graduation and after the first of five summers with the U.S. Forest Service, Hotchkiss enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the BA in English in 1959. Only one year later in 1960, he received the MA in English from San Francisco State University. From the University of Oregon in 1964, he earned the MFA in creative writing, and in 1971 he received the DA and in 1974 the PhD in English. He taught for 50 years, from 1960 to 2010; 38 of these were at Sierra College in Rocklin and in Grass Valley, California. His publications include some 50 titles, including collections of poems, anthologies of poems by others and himself, essays, textbooks, and many novels. Bill dove deeply into the nature, causes, and meanings of the greatness he found in the works of many poets, philosophers, and natural scientists. His teaching, poetry, fiction, and scholarship were built on the bedrock of their work and on the physical and spiritual world of nature. He was faculty editor of many volumes of the Sierra College literary magazine, and editor in chief of Blue Oak Press (1966) and Castle Peak Editions, regional presses of long standing. In addition to full-time teaching, Bill always wrote ambitiously and consistently. At his death, he left several completed manuscripts. Remembrances of the poet and teacher may be found at http://tinyurl.com/Bill-Hotchkiss-1 and http://tinyurl.com/Bill-Hotchkiss-2.

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I Hear the Coyote
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Who Drinks the Wine
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Yosemite
Representative edition published 1995
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To Fell the Giants
Representative edition published 1991
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Ammahabas
Representative edition published 1991
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Great Upheaval & Other Legends A Collection Of Longpoems
Representative edition published 1990
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Dance of the Coyote
Representative edition published 1987
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Fire Woman
Representative edition published 1987
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People Of The Sacred Oak
Representative edition published 1986
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Mountain Lamb
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Spirit Mountain
Representative edition published 1984
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Pawnee medicine
Representative edition published 1983
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Crow Warriors
Representative edition published 1982
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Soldier Wolf
Representative edition published 1982
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The Medicine Calf
Representative edition published 1981
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Middle Fork Canyon and Other Poems
Representative edition published 1979
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Climb to the high country
Representative edition published 1978
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Fever in the Earth
Representative edition published 1977
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The Graces of Fire and Other Poems
Representative edition published 1974
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To Christ, Dionysus, Odin
Representative edition published 1969
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SIERRA SANTA CRUZ
Representative edition published 1991
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Landing Signals
Representative edition published 1985
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Shoshone Thunder
Representative edition published 1983
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