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To read McKee is to witness drama and struggle; if the art is hard-won, the human victories are, too.  McKee is a bracing and welcome poet, whose artistry and accomplishment must not go unsung.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> --Philip Dacey</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>STILL LIFE w/Trailer</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Lou McKee doesn't have a can of soup on the pantry shelf, nothing he can set in its place, in its light, in its moment. Lou is happy for a bird's visit. He takes a small lamp off the wall and climbs into bed with it under the covers to read. He thinks a finger cut on prayer must burn like the bite of paper. He looks down, remembering cartoon feet spinning like blades clear of the cliff. He swims as long as it takes to apologize for staring. Thinking of nothing but hips, he lays his own hand over someone else's. Lou steps into one kind of shit, or another, keeping his mouth shut. In love, or just about, he tries to tell you in forty words or less. He thinks about the Greek, Archilochus, and still has his skin, standing behind a girl with wonderful hair. Juno's breast-spill. At fifty he is still unable to forget the sixteen year old girl he thought he loved when he was eighteen. He met a man in a bar who said he killed a man. And now he's one of them, the people he used to laugh at. The present tense of these rivers insist they see him coming.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Craig Czury</div> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>STILL LIFE</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> You are not going to find </div> <div> a bowl of fruit, a complication </div> <div> of shapes and color, to sit </div> <div> on the table near the window </div> <div> where light and shadow </div> <div> can track across them.</div> <div> This is a bachelor's home,</div> <div> a servile place, and bowls </div> <div> of fruit and vases stuffed </div> <div> with greeny grasses and bright </div> <div> shocks of color are not its world.  </div> <div> I don't even have a can of soup </div> <div> on the pantry shelf, nothing</div> <div> I can set in its place, in its light,</div> <div> in its moment, and catch in my art.</div> <div> The dog as always is stretched</div> <div> on the floor beside the chair--</div> <div> or is he disqualified, what</div> <div> with his legs sometimes twitching </div> <div> like he's chasing rabbits </div> <div> in a happy dream, or because </div> <div> his tail wags, usually just the once, </div> <div> as though letting me know from </div> <div> time to time that he's still with me?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Louis McKee has been a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene since the early 70s. He is the author of <I>Schuylkill County</I>, <I>The True Speed of Things</I>, and ten other collections. A  selected poems, <I>River Architecture: Poems from Here & There 1973-1993</I> appeared in 1999, and new work was published in Near Occasions of Sin in 2006. Gerald Stern has called his work “heart-breaking” and “necessary,” while William Stafford has written, “Louis McKee makes me think of how much fun it was to put your hand out a car window and make the air carry you into quick adventures and curlicues. He is so adept at turning all kinds of sudden glimpses into good patterns.” Naomi Shihab Nye says, “Louis McKee is one of the truest hearts and voices in poetry we will ever be lucky to know.”</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Still Life</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="Still Life"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-15"> <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="Still Life"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-15"> <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>  <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> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U><B>To order through mail click here.</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>