1987-1997Coffee House Press, 1996 - American fiction Prose and poetry by an experimental writer. In Patagoni, he writes: "the indians liked to pick a spectacular spot and then get just behind it--para occultar--this true, certainly of machu picchu, probably chavin & san agustin / yesterday the filthy train from Machu Picchu--today Aviacion Fawcett DC-4 to Lima--life here, like the mountains is tilted, faulted and stratified." |
Contents
Mountaineers Are Always Free | 347 |
Araminta and the Coyotes | 415 |
The Wonderful White Whale of Kansas | 513 |
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