Articles or reviews of The Lincoln Poems have appeared in the Decatur Herald and Review, the Shelbyville Daily Union, Springfield’s Illinois Times—and in the July 2008 issue of the Millikin Quarterly.

The book has been adopted by the Decatur Public Library, the Lincoln Library (Springfield), the Abraham Lincoln Library (Springfield), the Barclay Library (Warrensburg), and the Forsyth Public Library.

The Lincoln Poems

Mayhaven Publishing, Inc.
$14.95 USA Poetry
ISBN 13 978 193227853-8
ISBN 10 193227853-2

“Part history, part mythology, and all word music, The Lincoln Poems is Dan Guillory’s loving tribute to the nation’s first and only poet President. Guillory channels Abraham Lincoln through the ages and into the moment, breathing fire and wit and soul into his marbled memory. The results are audacious and inspired. Read these poems. Read them aloud. Give voice to your own inner Lincoln.”

—William Furry, Executive Director Illinois State Historical Society

“In The Lincoln Poems Dan Guillory blends his scholarly knowledge about Lincoln with an imagined poetry memoir of the emotional life of Lincoln. Borrowing from the Japanese tradition of haibun, Guillory begins each entry with carefully researched prose...Then the lyrical poem leaps beyond the historical prose into a dramatic
monologue...Through these poems we join in imagining the inner life and mind of Abe the boy, the young man, the autodidact, the lawyer, the husband, the friend, the father, the politician, the emancipator and the commander in chief. What a pleasure it is to go on Guillory’s guided tour of significant but transcendent moments in Lincoln’s life and to imagine what Lincoln might have expressed if he had been blessed with time to reflect on his life and write his own memoir.”

—Dr. Randy Brooks, Professor of English, Millikin University

“Lincoln retained a life-long interest in poetry nd prose. Dan Guillory provides his own creative take, presenting a lyrical life of Lincoln through poems.”

—Thomas F. Schwartz, Ph.D., Illinois State Historian

“Here is a most unusual volume whereby one poet pays loving tribute to another poet! Lincoln, himself, composed some very fine verse.... those who enjoy good poetry will find Dan Guillory’s book most worthwhile and enjoyable.”

—Wayne C. Temple, Author, including Lincoln’s Travels on the River Queen

The Lincoln Poems is a must-read for both the Lincoln aficionado and the serious scholar. Dan Guillory has captured an essential quality of Lincoln not easily found in prose writing—a unique sense of humanity. Lincoln possessed a poet’s soul; proved through his own writings. Guillory's knowledge of Lincoln allows the reader to be transported through the poet’s eyes; a view I am sure Lincoln himself would have approved.

—Kim Bauer, Director, Lincoln Heritage Project, City of Decatur, IL