Perfect dirt : and other things I've gotten wrong / Keegan Lester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lester, Keegan, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lester, Keegan, 1987-.

Lester, Keegan.

Lester, Keegan, 1987---Travel.

Poets, American--Biography.

Poets, American.

Travel.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Keegan Lester, an Appalachian at heart even while living in New York City as a poet, explores questions of home, identity, success, and family"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part One

For all my strangers

Welch

A snapshot

Cardinals staining the air we breathe

Shane rooney

The way in which wind moves

Part Two

Tour diary: huntington, west Virginia

Peaches

A year later, in philly

On writing a book

Political poem

Train gravity

Part Three

Tour diary: alabama

Grandma

Christmas is a big deal in my family

A few weeks before thanksgiving, my dad says

Ernest

My flat bush friends

West Virginia day

Pare Rour

Tour diary: day off in morgantown

My grandpa rice

Tour diary: Charleston show

Sometimes my sister is too good at giving christmas presents

Tour diary: lewisburg

Tour diary in the south: putting more heart in our heartbreak

There were also readings

Graduation

Part Five

The doldrums

When my father got lost at sea I started doing things i normally don't do

Ain't, ain't a word

Another thing i wonder about while my father is lost at sea

Not long ago, I'd gone to a class in west Virginia

My mother is speaking in a voice, but it's not my mother's voice

I don't think he knows how to use his phone

One day while i was on tour, my friend bryan, who's super into ghost stories, the occult, metal music, and zines, says

Father's day

Home.

ISBN:

9781952271298

1952271290

OCLC:

1276788609