
Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
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David Lee is a major figure in American letters: the author of fifteen books of poetry, a celebrated teacher, a legendary reader in classrooms, bookstores, and taverns; and the first poet laureate of Utah. His work is full of the most various qualities: soul-crushing tragedy, lyrical celebration, high comedy, storytelling ebullience. Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems, now with us at last, brings to the community of readers raw power and radical beauty.
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David Lee was Utah's first poet laureate; in 2001 he was finalist-runner up for United States Poet Laureate. He is the author of two dozen volumes of poetry, including The Porcine Canticles, A Legacy of Shadows, So Quietly the Earth, Last Call, and Mine Tailings. A former seminary student and semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer. He has a PhD. with a concentration in John Milton and taught at Southern Utah University for over three decades where he received every teaching award given by the university including being named Professor of the Year on three occasions. His awards include multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Western States Book Award, Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Critics Choice Award, Utah Book Awards, Elkhorn Poetry Prize, Evolutionary Poem of the Year, Utah Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Utah Governor's Merit Award in the Humanities, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. The Utah Humanities Council and Utah Education Association named him one of the top 12 writers in Utah literary history and he was the fifth academic in Utah higher education to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retired, he scribbles and wanders rural roads and byways, all at about the same rate and pace, and maintains his intense training schedule to achieve his goal of becoming a World Class Piddler. David Lee currently resides in Seaside, Oregon.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Porcine Legacy
- Loading a Boar
- Behold
- Jubilate Agno, 1975
- Racehogs
- For Jan, with Love
- A Day of Mourning, 24 November '75
- The Porcine Canticles
- Tuesday Morning Loading Pigs
- Tuesday Morning Driving to the Auction in Salina
- The Muffler and the Law
- Mean
- The Farm
- Aftermath
- Epilogue
- Day's Work
- After an All Night Farrow
- Sonnet on the Sun Rising
- Arthritis
- Edna Mae
- Pain
- Evening
- My Town
- Prelude
- Ugly
- Preacher
- Lazy
- Interlude
- The Landrum Geese
- Willie and the Water Pipe
- Postlude
- Covenants
- Psalm Written After Reading Cormac McCarthy
- Housedogs
- E. U. Washburn's Story: Uncle Abe
- Rhapsody for the Good Night
- News From Down to the Café
- The Fish
- A Hymn for Pearl
- Conversation Overheard from a Back Booth on a Tuesday
- Song E. U. Washburn Heard
- Epilogue Scribbled on Four Napkins
- So Quietly the Earth
- Dawn Psalm, Pine Valley
- The Grand Staircase
- Abandoned Cabin on the Clark Ranch
- Aspen Pole Fence
- Yovimpa Point
- Kaiparowits Plateau
- While Walking
- Requiem
- In a House Made of Time
- The True Story of Susan Birchfield
- In a House Made of Time
- Stone Wind Water
- Fugue
- Moonrise Sandstone Waterseep
- Slot Canyon
- Sonatina In the Space
- Autumn Koan
- Winter Solstice
- Moments of Delicate Balance
- Incident at Thompson Slough
- Big Bend Triptych
- Cannonball
- Wheelis House: A Texas Tragedy
- Last Call and Driving and Drinking
- The Monument to the South Plains
- Substitute Teacher
- Idyll
- John Sims Story: The Oil Well Fire
- Last Call
- Bluebonnets, Firewheels and Brown Eyed Susans
- Slow Waking of Morning From Dream
- Veal
- Libretto: La Venganza Galleta Morena del Tejas
- Etymology/Diction
- Postmortem
- Nocturne Idyll
- Mine Tailings
- Silver City Dawn Psalm
- Monologue: Soft Focus Memory
- Rain Aubade
- Aubade
- Incident Based on a True Story
- What My Grandmother Told Me
- Globe Mallow Redux
- Dream of Adoration
- Autumn Eclipse
- Late September Song
- Sunrise, Birds
- Acknowledgements and Notes from the Boar's Nest
- About the Author
- Colophon
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