Self Portrait at Sunrise 3
Where Were You When I Needed You, Jack Kerouac 5
Hearing the First Music 7
Montreal Winter 8
How Did Coltrane Know? 9
Ghost Pain 10
Absence 11
Hop Along 13
What a Man Really Needs 15
Amber 16
Angels 18
The Art of Deep Breathing 19
The Importance of My Baptism 20
Black Ice 23
Generation Gap 24
Cracked Glass 26
The Artist 27
Dancer 29
Eating With Chopsticks in Vietnam 31
Elegy for a Postal Worker 32
Mom Was the First American Practitioner of Feng Shui 34
The Horse Farm in Hot Springs, Arkansas 35
Galloping a Dream 37
Out of Focus 38
April 17th 39
Clotheslines 41
The Dentist's Office 42
A Vietnam Veteran Visits Hemingway's House in Key West, Florida, circa 1971 43
The Man Who Hotwalks Horses 44
The Memorial Wall 45
The Covered Bridge in Wheeling, Indiana 48
Replacing the Carpet 49
New Orleans Fais Do Do 50
Getting Shot 51
Passing the Football 52
Joe's Elegies-February 3, 2002 54
Note to Jill 57
Who's Got the Rada Loa? 59
Road Trip 60
Sock-hop Serenade 62
The Ballgame 64
The Garden 66
A Fisherman's Grace 67
At the Museum of Modern Art In New York City I Wondered 69
On Halloween My Mid-Life Crisis Appears 70
Thirty Years From the Tet Offensive 72
Running the Voodoo Down 73
Snapshots 79
Overview
Poetry. RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN by Jim McGarrah is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Third Annual Poetry Awards. "...a book of intense, highly crafted, and haunting poems in the voice of a wild man shouting the unflinching truth about the congested speedway of contemporary living he is roaring through"--Jack Myers. His work has appeared in such publications as Connecticut Review, North American Review, and Southern Indiana Review.