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Author:

Elliott, Harley, 1940- author.

Title:

The mercy of distance : new and selected poems / Harley Elliott.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Hanging Loose Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

110 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

2000-2099
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Poetry.
Poetry.

Notes:

Cover art by Harley Elliott; cover design by Nanako Inoue; author photo by Glory Benacka. Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110).

Contents:

III. Our Life Disguised As Butterflies. Starting Point -- The Mercy Of Distance -- Smoke Dance -- Real Still Life -- Justice -- Guitar -- Getting Famous -- Fear Of Yellow -- Life Change -- How Beautiful -- Hold My Beer -- Drifting For Dummies -- Grudge Country -- Cowboys In Love -- March Landscape -- First Knowledge Of The Ocean -- Tom Pipes Home On The Range In A Kansas Pasture In July -- Wake Up Call -- When The Light -- Dark Country -- A Man Is Eating A Pickle -- Pissing In The Sink -- Front And Center -- A Poem For Little Turner Of Brunswick, Mo. -- Lonely Hearts In The Laundromat -- Psychopathia Sexualis -- The Invention Of The Doorway -- White Boys In Control -- Baseball -- The Citizen Game -- Inconvenient Lives -- Songs And Lights -- Crazy Horse Returns To South Dakota -- II. Sweating It Out -- Taking Instruction -- What You Do Know -- Poems About Getting Old -- He Spoke In Numbers -- Legacy -- A Photograph Of My Grandparents On Their Wedding Day -- Keeping It Simple -- On A Country Road -- To The Mexico City Announcers -- Dreaming In Lima -- After Picking Rosehips -- Man Takes Out Garbage -- Sweating It Out -- Living To Tell About It -- Stopping On A Mountain -- Reaching The Center Of One Thing -- The Natural Order Of Things -- Absence Of The Muse -- Unrequited -- Dick Makes An Omelet -- Kissing A Spot On The Bed -- Two Hearts In A Room -- Spanish Lesson -- The Teeth Of Small Children -- You Are Now Entering New Mexico -- Dream Lock -- Ride -- III. Our Life Disguised As Butterflies -- Three Men Receive Their Animals -- The Animal -- Gorilla Talisman -- The Better Monkey Debate -- Lizards -- Hot Pig In Clover -- Trouble Brewing As Hogs Near Paradise -- Bowling For Pigs -- All Pigs -- Four Appearances Of John's Red Rooster -- Little Bird To Do List -- Torturing The Rhinoceros -- Wolf -- Struck In The Forehead By A Sparrow I Begin To Get A Clue -- Weasel Killers -- The Skunk -- Skunk Heaven -- Our Life Disguised As Butterflies.

ISBN:

1934909645
9781934909645

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1224117578

LCCN:

2021286037

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)