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<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gelineau"><U>Gelineau</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Darling, Morton"><U>Darling, Morton</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czarnecki"><U>Czarnecki</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ruggieri, Pruitt, Memmer"><U>Ruggieri, Pruitt, Memmer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Huff"><U>Huff</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Desire Vail"><U>Desire Vail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bruce Bennett"><U>Bruce Bennett</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czury"><U>Czury</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Conners"><U>Conners</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gilman"><U>Gilman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="M J Iuppa"><U>M J Iuppa</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sweet"><U>Sweet</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brown"><U>Brown</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arsenault"><U>Arsenault</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leuzzi"><U>Leuzzi</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saling"><U>Saling</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MacPherson"><U>MacPherson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Good"><U>Good</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harrier"><U>Harrier</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coffman"><U>Coffman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Donaghy"><U>Donaghy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coon"><U>Coon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OBrien"><U>O'Brien</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merrifield"><U>Merrifield</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Allardt"><U>Allardt</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Battelle, Loiselle"><U>Battelle, Loiselle</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gell Center Anthology"><U>Gell Center Anthology</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ouzoonian"><U>Ouzoonian</U></A>   |   <B>Myers</B>   |   <A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Courington"><U>Courington</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Betten"><U>Betten</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id86.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HillKaucher"><U>Hill-Kaucher</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Memory's Dog</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Steve Myers</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ef09a90.jpg" border=0 width="265" height="425" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Musical words and rhythmical phrases are the ways into these poems that meld memory and imagination, and I find myself almost humming along rather than reading-or, reading as reading should be, with the mind, heart and body.  Hopkins and Heaney, Charles Wright and the ancient Chinese poets are heard and seen here, with the delightful result of strong emotion presented in strongly musical and imagistic poetry.  Unlike most contemporary poetry being written today, Steve Myers' poems elevate the so-called ordinary images of his life with a language that is unabashedly beautiful. Memory's Dog is a delight.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Len Roberts </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Steve Myers grew up in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the early 1960s and has lived at various times in other corners of the state, as well as in Mountain Lakes, N.J.; Rochester, N.Y., and Glasgow, Scotland. He received the Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Rochester in 1990 and since has taught at DeSales University. The author of a book on W.B. Yeats' poetry of the 1890s as well as scholarly articles on Yeats, his chapbook, <I>Work Site</I>, was published by FootHills in 2003. Individual poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in <I>Atlanta Review, Bellingham Review, The Cream City Review, The Dalhousie Review, Miller's Pond</I>, <I>Paterson Literary Review, Two Rivers Review</I>, and <I>West Branch</I>. He currently lives in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. His wife and son are both artists, the former a musician, the latter a musician/actor.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> TABLE OF CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> Writing Bucks County at 4 a.m.</div> <div> Prime of Life     </div> <div> Bye's Springhouse     </div> <div> Forty Crossings     </div> <div> Shibboleth    </div> <div> Camping at Hampton's Farm, 1962     </div> <div> Winter's archangel, the grackle,     </div> <div> Kept from Sleep     </div> <div> Celeste     </div> <div> Miriam Rosen's Show and Tell     </div> <div> <I>Frisson: </I>The Whale-Boat at the </div> <div>      Mercer Museum, Doylestown     </div> <div> Civil Defense     </div> <bR> <div> <B>II.</B></div> <bR> <div> Easter Early This Year, Over Easy     </div> <div> Bat-eared Fox     </div> <div> South Mountain Morning     </div> <div> These Are the Mornings     </div> <div> My Son Sings Campion at the </div> <div>      Turn of Summer     </div> <div> Tolstoy's Women     </div> <div> While Observing a Groundhog, </div> <div>      I Listen to Ram Dass Do the Tao     </div> <div> Odalisque 2     </div> <div> I Think of the Birds of November </div> <div>      and the Philosopher Harry Wiley     </div> <div> Zen Painting with Water     </div> <div> As if by instinct      </div> <div> At Magdalene     </div> <div> At Newman House     </div> <div> While the Future is Putting Its </div> <div>      Cards on the Table, My Irish </div> <div>      Side Fumbles A Handful of Chips     </div> <div> Equivocation in Middle Age     </div> <div> Grievance     </div> <div> Mountain. Matins. A Truck Drives By.     </div> <div> Feast of St. Stephen,     </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>While Observing a Groundhog, </B></div> <div> <B>I Listen to Ram Dass Do the Tao</B></div> <bR> <div>         October spills over South Mountain in slow motion.</div> <bR> <div> The valley fills; as the crow flies</div> <div>                                       his wingtips skim the thin miniscus</div> <div> forming from Vera Cruz to Blooming Glen.</div> <bR> <div> The Delaware River watershed </div> <div>                                   downshifts to reduced-sluice mode.</div> <bR> <div> Small-ribbed locust leaves go yellow, porous and delicate</div> <div>                  as rice paper.</div> <div> One thumb-and-finger stem-twirl shreds them.</div> <bR> <div> *</div> <bR> <div> From my porch I watch a groundhog, sunning his genius</div> <div>                                                                  for non-stirring-</div> <bR> <div> black-footed grass-flattener, small-bore bear, </div> <div> storehouse of mass</div> <div> fleshed to run his engine on idle all winter</div> <div>                                                  under the bronze viburnum.</div> <bR> <div> *</div> <bR> <div> Grayscale cumuli are fulminating in Macungie.</div> <div> All the reliable timetables tell me the Second Law</div> <div>                                                               of Thermodynamics</div> <div> arrives from Emmaus this afternoon, right on the money.</div> <bR> <div> Twice today its ripsaw whistle, gone up like a hawk-shriek;</div> <div> third time the charm that strips a sparrow down </div> <div> to skin and bone.</div> <bR> <div> *</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Fast-forward, rewind-</div> <div> I force my tape deck into feeding me a line, </div> <div>                                                                     the 48th rubric</div> <div> of the Tao:                                             </div> <div> <I>The Way is gained by loss upon loss</I></div> <div> <I>Until at last, ah! The Way!</I></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I>--voice of Ram Dass, Indian-summering on</div> <bR> <div> about <I>hsin-hsin, </I>heart-knowledge. 50 in February,</div> <div>                                                      I ruminate on the wisdom</div> <div> of an anonymous Chinese artisan,</div> <div>                as the groundhog ruminates upon a field of grass.</div> <div>                                    </div> <div> <I>*</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Hsin, hsin</I> runs the blood-flush of the heart in autumn.</div> <bR> <div> Translation: <I>more, more--of everything under the sun</I>:</div> <div> <I>finch-glint, cricket-skritch, last gush of Russian sage…</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div>              time enough in November for the heart to den</div> <div> like a swollen roshi,</div> <div>                                 rapt in foreshadowing</div> <div> of its own shadow, dozing as though there was no tomorrow-</div> <bR> <div> knowing nothing</div> <div>                            can save me from the heart-cease to come,</div> <div> not even inevitable Spring.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Memory's Dog</B><I> </I>is a 64 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $14.00</div> <div> <B>ISBN: 0-941053-38-5</B></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <B>Memory's Dog </B>ON-LINE </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="Memory's Dog"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="04-20"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B><B>     </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > <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>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. 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