Between Towns: Poems

Kutchins, Laurie

ISBN 10: 089672297X / ISBN 13: 9780896722972

Published by Texas Tech Univ Pr, 1993

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Inscribed to a named person (first name only) with a note and then signed by author on title page in black ink, text tight clean unmarked, NO age toning, boards likewise new looking & undamaged, dust jacket NOT price-clipped, dj shows light edge wear and a couple tiny closed tears along top edge back, Fine/Good Plus overall condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Between Towns: Poems
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089672297X
• ISBN 13: 9780896722972
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 13 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

This collection of poems celebrates the delicacy and harshness of the animals, bones, canyons, weather, storms, wind, and elements. A native of Wyoming, Kutchins captures the essence of the land she loves. "While longing for other worlds, Laurie Kutchins writes compellingly of her love for this one—for its plants and animals, its weather and seasons, its people. Between Towns shows clearly and compassionately the tension bunkhouse, many of us feel, wanting both to live well at home and to move on to some place new."— David Romtvedt. "Laurie Kutchins is following in the footsteps of James Wright—if James Wright had been a woman. And it is all her direct, erotic, surprising, and wise."—Jean Valentine. From Men Kick Stones When They Walk One night, waking me, the scuffle of wind at the water pump, lifting and lowering the arm at the rusted hinge. Wind harnessed in the cottonwoods groaning down by the vacant bunkhouse, a should I half-dreamed was Wally, whiskied and cussing in his joints, come back for chores after a night trip to town, his good eye lost in its eye blood. Wind scraping the voice of my parents, so hushed in the cold of the kitchen it seemed they were sleeping.