Undertow Overtures

ISBN: 098424056X

Author: Crist, Larry

Condition: New

Twenty years of (mostly previously published) collected poetry.From award winning author, actor, poet, Larry Crist, comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twenty years.From the author: Im an only child. My parents were as well Both lost their mothers early, their fathers too I was raised on a goat farm in the California wine country. I learned to read before kindergarten That first year of school was okay Im sorry i didnt go out for football in high school I did a lot of drugs and spent a year in jail instead I earned an MFA in theatre from Temple U. as well as a useless BA at HSU, Humboldt County, California I studied English & History, attended an acting academy in my early 20s, and never graduated high school I dont have a tv. I have a cell phone, but can barely use it My particular form of ADD prevents me from reading directions. Whenever i read something, telling me how to do something i invariably focus on how bad the writing is I love baseball. I ache for it and the kind of weather it accompanies. I love tigers and cats and crows I find cooking therapeutic and have always had a fear of starving to death. I prefer pie to cake but have no taste for either unless i smoke weed. I love to walk especially around Green Lake when it is sunny I would love to do this while walking a tiger. I would probably have a beer, because no one is going to bother you about drinking when youre out walking a tiger////////////////////////////////////////////////////T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S1 ~ Early atrocities2 ~ Man about town3 ~ Nature & natural crimes4 ~ Literary quite contrary////////////////////////////////////////////////////