Porcine Canticles

Name: Porcine Canticles
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ISBN: 9781556592096

ISBN-10: 1556592094

ISBN-13: 9781556592096

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Lee

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ou can write about pigs," is the advice David Lee heard from John, a wise and unlettered pig farmer in Utah. And write Lee did, while creating a collection of narratives and epic tales about the rural Southwest. Using the direct and uncompromising impact of common talk, Porcine Canticlesa lyrical tribute to the indomitability of the human heart, a rare book of poems that "reads like a good novel."-Western American Literature

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 108
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Loading a boar


Behold


Jubilate Agno


Salvage grain


Barbed wire


The pig hunt


The hay swather


Building pigpens


Tuesday morning, loading pigs


Tuesday morning, driving to the auction in Salina


The tale of the graveblaster


The chain letter


Racehogs


The muffler and the law


Plowing


Digging postholes


For Jan, with love


Kolob at evening


Culture


Nighthunting with John


The real estate


Fall


Jan's birthday


Shoveling rolled barley


Mean


A day of mourning, 24 November 75


Friday afternoon, feeding pigs


Dusk


Building a farrowing pen


The farm


Aftermath


Baalam