Salted Rook

by Douglas Payne

Overview

Douglas Payne's debut chapbook is a work that navigates with unflinching grace the graveled and beautiful landscapes of memory marked by apostasy, pain, intoxication, lust, and loss.

Douglas Payne's poems and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Muck and Muse, Shot Glass Journal, The Far East: Everything Just As It Is, A Year in Ink Vol. 5, and others. Payne is a San Diego native and an alumnus of Grossmont College's Creative Writing Program. Salted Rook was selected in 2016 as the Grand Prize Winner of the Grossmont College "First Book" competition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943899043
Publisher:	Chest-O-Drawers Press
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Pages:	42
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.10(d)

Table of Contents

Townes Van Zandt at the Aero Club 1

Sketches of Spain 3

My Grandfather’s Heart Was a Prison Bed 4

Dream-Sick 5

Loneliness as a Paper Bag 7

Elegy for Thomas 8

Stomped 10

The Burningly Majestic Syllabus That Terrified Your Parents 11

Let No Light Enter 13

Love Like Glass Enamel 15

Hands 17

Dream of the Staircase 18

Crown of Thorns

Dawn 19

Mourning 20

Meridian 21

Dusk 22

Nocturne 23

Twilight 24

Little Girl Blue 25

Shasta Becomes a Bird 26

A Hymn to Your Hip 27

Camera Lucida 28

Down in the Ditch 29

Soft Violet 30

Excrement 31

Driftwood 32

You Will Be Gray 34