Far Out West

by Clark Coolidge

Overview

"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of my childhood on satellite waves, realizing an inherent wackiness in these accounts of men descending from horses before buttes or saloons, speaking lines like ‘This town got a sawbones?’ … They had me so dreaming that I took aim and wrote. Or wrote without hardly aiming to, one."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780970625045
Publisher:	Zephyr Press
Publication date:	09/01/2001
Series:	Adventures in Poetry
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Coolidge and Mayer are arguably two of the most influential avant-garde poets of the 20th and now the 21st centuries, with work spanning the last fifty years of American letters.

Table of Contents

	River of No Concern	11
	Bad Hand Territory	12
	Brand What	13
	Far Out West	14
	Right About the Running Woman	16
	Down Too Many Barrels	18
	The Price of Scabies	20
	All Dressed Out in Storm (A Charnel Whip)	21
	Pegleg Holdem's Death	22
	You Don't Tell Me	23
	Professor Hepburn Rides Again	24
	A Plain Load of Dumb Luck	25
	For a Decent Man You Sure Get a Hardon Sherif	26
	The Battle for the Cotton Reserves	27
	Hands Up So Far	28
	The Grimace at Stone Junction	29
	Outlaw with Sand	30
	The Rash Components of Skip Homeier	31
	The Puissance of String Ties	32
	Riders of the Boards	33
	Earnest Tampers	34
	Trustworthy Locator with Dog	35
	Town Gone Off (Rocks Made out of Raisins)	36
	The Drawbacks of a Riderless Valley	37
	The Big Sundry	38
	Cattle on Horseback (a Methodical Thinness)	39
	Higher Saddles and Shorter Ladders	40
	Only Possibilities	41
	Occasion Killer	42
	From the Cimarron Sandhills	43
	I Said the Duck	44
	Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats	45
	A Moon Obscured by Clowns	46
	Stealers Way Wide	47
	Gun Play on an Empty Stage	48
	Jawbone Shovels	49
	This Yarn Needs a Slippery Finish (Noise of the Pickoff Boys)	50
	Hombre Your Installments Are Showing	51
	Land of the Passing Strange	52