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The Sounding Behavior of Whales

Patrick Hulsman

(Release date 3/5. Free domestic shipping if ordered by 3/4)

From the book:

DENISE LEVERTOV'S GARDENER

          

From inside the house

he has heard her

grate across the floor

and sigh as if she

were a bird of

furious and

frightening proportion

escaping from a

dark and

vestigial shell

As his spades of earth

turn to make the beds ready

for spring planting

the flutter of her

movements lead

to the porch

Letting the screen door

snap shut behind her

she exits and searches

for him scanning

steps warily

onto the stone path

She reaches the arbor

sees his quiet

and curious pose

as he lifts his face

to gaze at her

In his flannel shirt

and soil-stressed jeans

hands and fingers

stained by poems

in reverent voice asks

the placement of

the hydrangeas

Patrick Hulsman was born and raised in Chicago but has made Buffalo his home since the early 1970s. He studied literature at and is a graduate of Buffalo State College’s English Department.

He began writing poetry while serving with the military in the Philippines and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

His work has most recently been featured in the Buffalo News.  

The Sounding Behavior of Whales is his first published book of poems.

The Sounding Behavior of Whales

is a 60 page hand-stitched paperbook with spine - $16.00

(Release date 3/5. Free domestic shipping if ordered by 3/4)

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