Andy Clausen is an uncommon poet of the common man, whose works examine the human condition on the personal, familial, and national levels. Clausen's poetry is, as he says, "adjectives, great describable language painting sentence movies of streets, nature and people, magic invectives and bombasts and totally sentimentally biting like something old and sacred low-down blues and lamentations." In a 1975 poem, "He Said The Rent Was Cheap In Winnipeg," Clausen presents one of his finest "sentence movies":

With obtrusive leg we venture into the worlds
                                     of simple
  fellaheen grocery clerks, neighborhood
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