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Flaubert At Key West--New and Selected Poems
by Barry Gifford ISBN 1-889960-03-9 paper, perfectbound, 96 pps, --$12 |
Acclaimed over the past decade as a master of contemporary American fiction, Barry Gifford (author of Wild At Heart, Night People, The Phantom Father, Bordertown, The Sinaloa Story and many other books) proves he never lost his affection for poetry. The new poems blaze with life, love and devastating candor, and his selections from previous books of poetry reveal a delicacy of feeling and reverence for life that fans of his dark, edgy novels will find deliciously surprising.
Excerpts from Flaubert at Key West
At The Cherokee Bar
Jackson, Mississippi
Words disappear
in this dream
room
of the
Deep South
Two blondes
in a red booth
stop whispering
as
ghost ships
glide by
in the blue perfect
night
Vision del Calle Cruz Rey
Old man
sitting in his
yard
in Caseta
under the only
tree
reading
Dostoevsky's
Los Diablos
skinny dog
circling
him
slowly
Poem
I am no painter
but when
a red bird
bursts from
green pine
into a grey
rain sky
it leaves itself
a part
of my
eye
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