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Begging for vultures : new and selected poems, 1994-2009 / Lawrence Welsh ; foreword by V.B. Price.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.E4827 B44 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welsh, Lawrence, 1959-
- Series:
- Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- The Poetry of Lawrence Welsh Crosses Many Borders, from South Central Los Angeles, Where he was Raised, to El Paso, Where he has Lived for Almost Twenty Years. A Newspaper Man Turned Poet, A Punk Rock Songwriter Who Became an English Teacher, An Irishman at Home in new Mexico, Welsh Gives Voice to the Famous, The Infamous, and the Forgotten. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- New Poems
- New Corn Dance 3
- El Paso Poem 4
- Ramon's 5
- Dead Coyote 6
- Beyond Bosque 7
- To the Stone Hunters 8
- For Hart Crane 9
- Coyote at Fabens 10
- Before Mesa 11
- The Buffalo Figurine 12
- Old Crow 13
- Yandell's Room 14
- Barry Mills 15
- Leaves 16
- Cuchillo 17
- Easter 18
- Raven/Taos 19
- East of Albuquerque 20
- Juarez-Again 21
- / La Feria Feria, La 22
- Eastside's Calvario 23
- Coal Trane 24
- Gersh Driver 25
- A Bosque Hanging 27
- Preparing for Maximus 31
- Gambler's Blend 32
- Gambler's Guitar 33
- Outing Vegas 34
- Larks 35
- '48 Plymouth 36
- 1959 37
- When the Pogues Came to Town 38
- South Central Serenade 39
- Angel Dust 40
- East Hollywood Hotdog Stand 41
- One for Prez 42
- Blue's Beach 43
- The King of Mountain Soul 44
- / St. Mullin's Mullin's, St. 45
- Feed the Messenger as Well 46
- For Longshot O'Leary 47
- After the Great Hunger 48
- New Irish Whiskey 51
- The Death of Coolaholiga 52
- Coolaholiga Rising 54
- Begging for Vultures 56
- The Birds are Flying Over 58
- From Skull Highway (2008)
- New Medicine Stick 63
- Adobe 64
- Fallen Ladders 65
- Paper Lantern 66
- Gone Rattler 67
- Swift Horse: A Blessing 68
- Norton Flats 69
- Milagros 70
- Skull Highway 71
- The Eve 72
- Reverb Machines 73
- The Dancing Stranglers 74
- New Year's Eve, 1978 75
- Culver's End 76
- Troubadour West 77
- Kiva Bones 78
- Penitente Morada de Taos 79
- A Light 80
- For Robert Peters 84
- The Crucifix Upstairs 85
- Abandoned Morada, 1990 86
- In the Desert Dead Things Go Away Quickly 87
- From Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (2007)
- Anniversary of Another Life 91
- On the 15th Anniversary of My Father's Death 92
- Hickory Wind 94
- The Shadows of St. Francis 95
- Mine Tours 96
- The Elbo Room/Guadalupe 97
- El Pantalón Rosa 98
- Elegy / John Wieners Wieners, John 99
- Been Sleeping in the Desert 100
- Lost / San Elizario Elizario, San 101
- Westwood Walk 102
- J. Geils in Inglewood 103
- Bunny Berrigan Loses His Chops 104
- Santa Fe: 2001 105
- Montez de Santa Fe 106
- For My Daughter 107
- Letting Go 108
- From Believing in Bonfires (2003)
- Butterfly Girl 111
- El Paso Saddleblanket Company 112
- Memo to Kell 113
- Corner 114
- Bowen's 115
- Desert Rats 116
- New Irish Harmonica 117
- The Doolin Drag 119
- First Mescaline: Inglewood '77 120
- South Central Serenade: 7 121
- When We Were Kings 122
- Quarter Moon Quartet 124
- Wolf and Skull 125
- Playland 126
- Dawn 127
- Mexican Canyon Trestle 128
- Flying Burrito #1 129
- Believing in Bonfires 130
- From New Shouts at Broken Dreams (2001)
- / Mr. Mileage Mileage, Mr. 133
- Sweet Medicine 134
- Desert Coyote 135
- The Queen of Odessa 136
- La Calavera 137
- From a Buick 6-Revisited 139
- Nowhere Train 140
- Cockfighter 141
- Fading the White Line 142
- Juarez Wild Card 143
- Myth 144
- The Final Night 145
- Stalled Avenue 146
- Dealer's Choice 147
- The Balinese 148
- Surf '96 150
- Encinitas 151
- Newport Line 152
- From Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts (1999)
- Airstream 155
- El Paso the Hard Way 156
- Back Door Poets 157
- Desert Variation 158
- When ZZ Came to Town 159
- Drover 160
- Peasant Hands Everywhere 161
- Maybe 162
- Gasoline Row 163
- Ghost of El Paso 164
- Outside Gallup 165
- Crazy Horse 166
- Border Patrols 167
- Candy 168
- E.P.T. 169
- Gold on the Wire 170
- The Canonization of Freddy Fender 171
- Sleepwalkers 172
- On the Death of Townes Van Zandt 173
- Fast Eddie 174
- Greatest Hits: Ray Price and His Cherokee Cowboys 175
- Night of the Iguana 176
- Two Step the Night 177
- Fuels 177
- The Salsa of Today 179
- The Red Road 180
- Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts 181
- From Lenny Bruce in El Paso (1997)
- Outlaw X 185
- Road Dogs 186
- Ink 187
- Lenny Bruce in El Paso 188
- Lefty and Me 189
- The Girls of the Wrecking Yard 191
- The Ghosts of San Juan 191.
- ISBN:
- 9780826350183
- 0826350186
- 9780826350190
- 0826350194
- 9780826350176
- 0826350178
- OCLC:
- 667990358
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