What Falls Away Is Always
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Richard Terrill is the author of five previous books including two poetry collections from the University of Tampa Press, Almost Dark (2010) and Coming Late to Rachmaninoff (2003), winner of the Minnesota Book Award. His memoirs are Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz (2000) and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir (1990), winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Arts Boards, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as Fulbright Fellowships to Korea, China, and Poland. Work has appeared in journals such as Iowa Review, Georgia Review, North American Review, River Teeth, New Letters, and Crazyhorse. He is Professor Emeritus at Minnesota State, Mankato, where he was Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and currently works as a jazz saxophone player. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Content
On Edward Hopper
Roethke at Berkeley, 1967
"I like boring things"
Chet Baker: A Fantasia
Diane Arbus
Dear Future
"My life is not important. I understand that"
"I think I could turn and live with animals"
The Ox and Lamb Kept Time
The Last Thing He Saw
The Sense of Things Made Plain
10:00 am. Papa's Café, New Hope, Minnesota
THE NEW POETRY
Casablanca: The Stage Directions
Cape Fear
Becoming Groucho
"Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game"
The New Poetry
Meeting Minutes-Friends of the Park
Daily News/Paper Sh r e dd e r
You Must Change Your Life
Haiku Bumper Stickers
The Villanelle is Hard to Master
The pTerrilldactyl
"No one should write their memoirs until after they're dead"
"Pissing in the snow outside my door-it makes a very straight hole"
The Verdict
A Concise Ending to a Windy Lecture
"I'D LIKE, PLEASE..."
"I'd like please, to leave on your sill..."
"The scent of smoldering leaves, the wail of steamers..."
"Like musical instruments abandoned in a field..."
Fire at the Fire Station
Security Question: What Was the Make of Your First Vehicle?
Remember How Great
Early Poems
Lao Ren
Too Often
Miles Davis Plays "Stella By Starlight"
What Jazz Isn't
Blossom Dearie Sings and Plays
Coltrane
Two Sentiments
Blackberries
The Lake
Next to Nothing
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