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While others,</div> <div> having seen enough of this so-called</div> <div> rational world, find some un-named comfort</div> <div> in being lost and make no pretense of</div> <div> dancing headlong into the darkening void.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Justin Evans lives with his wife and three sons in rural Nevada, where he teaches.  His most recent book, </B><I><B>Town for the Trees</B></I><B> was also released from FootHills Publishing in 2011. He edits the on-line journal, </B><I><B>Hobble Creek Review</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> Friday in the Republic of Me</div> <div> <B>is a 32 page hand-sewn chapbook  - $10.00. </B></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A>     </div> <bR> <div> ON-LINE          <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> </U></A>                              </div> <bR> <div> From the US      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Friday in the Republic of Me"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-11"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Canada      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Friday in the Republic of Me"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-11"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Friday in the Republic of Me"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12-11"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <div> <B>                                    ******************************************</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="town_for_the_trees"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Town for the Trees</B></I></div> <div> <B>Justin Evans</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1b02ce30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="483" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>In Twilight</B></div> <bR> <div> I will go, walking down the dark canyon road  </div> <div> softened beneath a malleable sun. Once more,  </div> <div> one final descent into the valley of my home.   </div> <bR> <div> Shadow and bare earth begin to evaporate  </div> <div> into each other, night always a context for union,  </div> <div> a place to meet and linger in an embrace.   </div> <bR> <div> I see how the river has cut a path for me, given itself</div> <div> a rhythm for today and tomorrow.  Each slight bend</div> <div> another life told as the day passes to night.   </div> <bR> <div> Together we both migrate, one man and one river,  </div> <div> each of us bound to accumulate with our own kind  </div> <div> where we are certain to find a place to stop and sleep.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Pre-Dawn: Three Sisters</B></div> <bR> <div> I am awake hours before the sun,</div> <div> looking at the dark shadow</div> <div> that is my mountain.  Its hulking curve </div> <div> lumbers and shifts slightly </div> <div> with my every breath.</div> <bR> <div> Whenever I come back to this place</div> <div> after years of absence, it is the mountains</div> <div> which startle me the most, their size</div> <div> always shrinking in my mind </div> <div> like the old memory of a broken arm.</div> <bR> <div> Though the minutes pass slow</div> <div> it is time well spent, waiting </div> <div> with the world as it shakes off the night,</div> <div> small details quietly gathering </div> <div> beneath the shirt tails of morning.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Justin Evans was raised in Springville, Utah, where most of these poems are set.  After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Army from 1988-1992 and graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in History and English Education.  In 2004 he completed a Master's Degree in Literacy Studies from University of Nevada, Reno.  His previous chapbooks include, <I>Four Way Stop</I> (Main-Traveled Roads, 2005), <I>Gathering up the Scattered Leaves</I>, and <I>Working in the Birdhouse</I> (FootHills, 2006, 2008)For the past twelve years, he has lived with his wife and sons in rural Nevada, where he teaches at the local high school.  In addition to writing, he edits the on-line journal, <I>Hobble Creek Review</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Town for the Trees is a 64 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - 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Evans' curiosity about how humans respond and coexist with nature and each other are at the heart of this well-crafted collection."</div> <bR> <div> --Collin Kelley, Author of <I>After the Poison</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>So Often There Are Birds in the Sky </B></div> <bR> <div> Silhouetted against the mainsail of dusk, </div> <div> they shroud the remaining daylight. </div> <div> See how they excommunicate themselves </div> <div> from the earth, how a lone hawk will float </div> <div> like a hapless bottle in the ocean, </div> <div> waiting to deliver its message. </div> <bR> <div> Night after night they remain with me,</div> <div> great multitudes of dark wings.</div> <div> I half expect morning to be filled </div> <div> with birds perched at my window, </div> <div> accusing me of stealing from them </div> <div> the mathematics of flight.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Justin Evans lives in rural Nevada with his wife, Becky, and three sons where he teaches history and creative writing.  He is the author of two previous chapbooks:  Four Way Stop (Main-Traveled Roads, 2005); and Gathering up the Scattered Leaves (Foothills Publishing, 2006).   </div> <bR> <div> Working in the Birdhouse</div> <div> is a 28 page hand-stitched chapbook.</div> <div> $8.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  </div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Working in the Birdhouse"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-22"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Working in the Birdhouse"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-22"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A>     </div> <bR> <div> *************************************************************************</div> <div>  <A NAME="gathering_up_the_scattered_leaves_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Gathering up the Scattered Leaves</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1b72ccb0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="459" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>In Twilight</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Yet once more, O ye laurels and once more</I></div> <div>                              <I>--- John Milton</I></div> <bR> <div> I will go, walking down the dark canyon road </div> <div> softened beneath a malleable sun. Once more, </div> <div> one final descent into the valley of my home.  </div> <div>  </div> <div> Shadow and bare earth begin to evaporate </div> <div> into each other, night, always a context for union, </div> <div> a place to meet and linger in an embrace.  </div> <div>  </div> <div> I see how the river has cut a path for me, given itself </div> <div> a rhythm for today and tomorrow. Each slight bend </div> <div> another story told as the day passes to night.  </div> <div>  </div> <div> Together we both migrate, one man and one river, </div> <div> each of us bound to accumulate with our own kind </div> <div> where we are certain to find a place to stop and rest.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Artist's Statement:</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>I have long been interested in place being a defining factor in my poetry.  Many of the poets who have influenced me, use place as a touchstone for the message of their poetry, and I wanted to do the same.  Some have put forth the idea that American poetry is pre-occupied with place, and I certainly see that being true in my case.  I wanted to express in this second chapbook, as I did with my first, a sense of longing for the places of my youth.  Where I was admittedly darker with my first chapbook, my goal was to be more optimistic and hopeful this time around.  Specifically, I wanted to infuse a sense of the ecstatic writings of Rumi with my nostalgia for the places I knew as a young boy.  Hopefully, people can gain a sense of how I feel about specific places and my place in them.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>However, poetry has always been more than expression of artistic ideas; it is a means for me to remain connected with the human spirit as a whole.  Poetry is a communion, and as such, allows me to come to the common ground of people with something to share.  And even though I am sharing something of me, I believe I am always taking more away from the experience than I could possibly give.  Therein lies the magic of poetry, the possibility for me to become more than what is possible otherwise.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Gathering up the Scattered Leaves</I></div> <div> is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook  - $8.00</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A><A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>     </U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Gathering up the Scattered Leaves"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-11"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>