David Pichaske is a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. His books include UBO3: A Season in Outer Mongolia; A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town; Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People; Poland in Transition: 1989-91; Late Harvest: Rural American Writing; The Poetry of Rock; A Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties; Movement in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer’s Literary Pilgrimage; and Beowulf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry.