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The tattooed desert / Richard Shelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (84 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1971]
- Summary:
- Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict. He is followed by peculiarly insistent voices from the past.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I. The Forgetting
- Gambit
- My Woman
- September
- Today
- October
- Letter from an Inland Province
- Men as Trees
- New Year's Eve
- The Source
- April
- Under the Bridge
- The White Hotel
- II. The Communion of Strangers
- History
- Eden After Dark
- Rendezvous
- Saturday Night at the Elk's Club
- Six Reports from the Age of Mirrors
- The Mute
- Notes from the Night Watcher
- Autobiography
- He Who Remains
- The Past
- The Way Back
- Strangers
- III. The Scars
- Reunion
- Scene of the Accident
- August
- Surgery
- November
- Cortege
- Instructions for Finding Water
- December
- The Search
- Questioning the Dead
- Not Many Years Later
- Prayer to the God of Darkness
- IV. The Crossing
- The Voices
- Near Water
- The Children
- The Coat of Many Colors
- The End of the Line
- The Crossing
- Connais-Tu le Pays?
- The Unexpected
- Valediction
- V. The Tattooed Desert
- The Tattooed Desert.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822979067
- 0822979063
- OCLC:
- 1445427416
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