Strange Privacies
Poems
Published on 1. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
28 pages
978-0-9760413-6-8 (ISBN)
Description
An excerpt from the poem "Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July"": Now I've lowered a mask over my face The eye-slits don't fit, and I can't see. I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone, that neighbors fed us after he left. I'm feeling in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave between us. He tells me to stop horsing around: this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Girardeau
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
59 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9760413-6-8 (9780976041368)
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Roy Bentley has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in the Southern Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Blackbird, Sou'wester, American Literary Review and elsewhere. He has published ten chapbooks and four books of poetry, including The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, which won the White Pine Poetry Prize and was published by White Pine in 2006. His fourth collection, Starlight Taxi, is the winner of the 2012 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and is available from Lynx House Press in Spokane, WA.