Prime Directive
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Bryan D. Dietrich's new book is about Star Trek. It's about tenyear-aids and Talos IV, Kirk and Klingons, captains and colonels. It's about a suddenly single Air Force father who introduces his son to a TV show, one that brings them both together, offers them both new life if not new civilization, preparing them both to go where neither has gone before. Prime Directive is a book about a man with Alzheimer's who doesn't have long before beaming out of this world, but it's also about his son, father himself now, learning how to take the helm once his captain, his Colonel. is gone.
Bryan D Dietrich
Bryan D. Dietrich is the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Yale Review, and many other journals. Finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, as well as the Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Bram Stoker Awards, he has won the The Paris Review Prize, the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, the Lord Ruthven Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.
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