Eccentricities of Geography
ISBN: 9781607322146 | 1607322145
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ Pr of Colorado
Pub. Date: 9/15/2012
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Eccentricities of Geographyis a collection of poems, stories, and essays with a quirky charm and regional Western flavor. The works in this anthology range from "Wild West" parodies to essays on the perils of hiking in California, and from poems that twist trickster fables to ones that explore the dangers of jogging in mountain lion country. These writers reveal that the land is a character: sometimes a mother, sometimes a joker, never an enemy, though one must take care. The space can be refreshing or oppressive, as the paradox of openness is ... MORE
| Foreword: Entering the West | p. 11 |
| Poetry | |
| Arizona Cowboys | p. 17 |
| Big Game | p. 18 |
| Darling Blight | p. 19 |
| Another Trail Running Melodrama | p. 20 |
| Drunk Scientists Attempt to Measure the Median | p. 22 |
| Never Borrow Trouble | p. 23 |
| Passage | p. 24 |
| The Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere | p. 25 |
| Purgatory, Colora... MORE | p. 27 |
| Eleven Fables | p. 30 |
| To Be Continued (Ars Poetica) | p. 35 |
| H.H. Tammen | p. 36 |
| Wild West | p. 37 |
| Off the Grid | p. 38 |
| Wading Below Moon Creek | p. 39 |
| Nepantla | p. 40 |
| Moab, Utah | p. 43 |
| Ode to Range Cows - 2nd movement | p. 45 |
| Fiction | |
| Back in Town | p. 49 |
| Lyrics for Rock Stars | p. 56 |
| Ghost Lights | p. 72 |
| Essays | |
| Bear Stories | p. 87 |
| Travels With Emmy | p. 91 |
| Earning My Manhood in Pigtails | p. 103 |
| Contributors | |
| About the Authors | p. 115 |
| About the Editors and Designer | p. 119 |
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