Editing Sky
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Hardback
70 pages
978-1-881515-23-4 (ISBN)
Description
1999 Texas Review Poetry Prize Winner
rubbing you raw with whitewash & pumice.
In trying to bleach herself out of your
smooth tailored skin, you became an even
redder half-Irish. Even before then, blood
had welled around your high cheekbone firmly
pressed to the hardwood stock, lightly butted
with the single shot from a small bore
Twenty-two. Your first buck's last leap...
Editing Sky
rubbing you raw with whitewash & pumice.
In trying to bleach herself out of your
smooth tailored skin, you became an even
redder half-Irish. Even before then, blood
had welled around your high cheekbone firmly
pressed to the hardwood stock, lightly butted
with the single shot from a small bore
Twenty-two. Your first buck's last leap...
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Language
English
Place of publication
Huntsville
United States
Illustrations
port.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881515-23-4 (9781881515234)
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DAVID M. PARSONS holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State University of New York (Geneseo) and the French/American Legation Poetry Prize. He is founder of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council's Writers in Performance Series and has served on the Conroe Commission on Arts and Culture for the past six years, two years as chairman. Parsons has three grown children and lives in Conroe, Texas, with extended family members and his daughter Allison and wife, Nancy, an award-winning fine artist and graphic designer.