Winside, Nebraska rancher and Wayne State College English and Creative Writing teacher J.V.Brummel's new book of poems, Cheyenne Line is a poetry hat trick: not a word out of place, no baloney, no solipsistic search for self or meaning or some undefined thing in academia we find in so much poetry these days. Brummels' throws are true: the cuts, clips, and brands each poem distinctly as a J.V. Brummels poem. Nobody's going to get these poems mixed up in the herd. Cheyenne Line and other poems is a powerful achievement by this gifted writer in mid-career.--from the cover

JV Brummels' latest collection is frontpew@paradise is Brummels' best work to date; while the poems--as in his earlier collections, 614 Pearl, Cheyenne Line, City at War, Book of Grass, among others--focus upon the daily and particular concerns of the Great Plains and of ranch life, frontpew places Brummels' readers up close and personal into the sermon that a long life may be. The poems are not didactic by any means, but they are wise and contemplative, as the long road to paradise may be paved.