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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Eastern Washington Univ Pr
Publication date
September 1, 2000
Pages
78
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780910055666
ISBN-10
0910055661
Dimensions
0.25 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Original list price
$13.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this collection of poems we indeed meet the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr. buying eggs and bananas at a Capistrano Beach supermarket; Elvis "slipping out / with raccoons and owls to buy pink / Cadillacs for anyone that moved him;" Marshal Dillon, his head split by a surfing mishap; even Geronimo, galloping back toward nature, "ruined for love." But this books is about more than famous people. From the car and kokanee-chocked waters of Montana to an art gallery in Utah where the narrator doesn't meet a famous poet laureate, Robbins traces his own heritage and ours by connecting past and present, the dead and living. He does so with sly humor, a naturalist's precision, and a potent lyricism. The cumulative effect is that of a building rhythm that echoes our own trembling relationship to the land that somehow sustains us—"because," as the narrator says in "Bread," the collection's final poem, "feeding / the hungry is what it's always all about."
Editions
Hardcover
from Eastern Washington Univ Pr (December 1, 2000)
9780910055659 | details & prices | 78 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.95
Paperback
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from Eastern Washington Univ Pr (September 1, 2000)
9780910055666 | details & prices | 78 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.95
About: In this collection of poems we indeed meet the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr.
About: In this collection of poems we indeed meet the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr.
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