The Day After Hank Williams' Birthday

This book is an enjoyable mix of poems and short prose pieces. There are tales hitchhiking and strange encounters, and poems about everyday objects such as bow saws and branch loppers. In the title piece the author hears Hank Williams songs running through his head as he performs a variety of household chores. The reader becomes the one hearing these songs. The natural world is explored and celebrated in poems about fishing and working outdoors. In one poem a small child invents an alternate name for flowers. In another the poet stands in awe at the birth of twin fawns. A unifying theme? All truths wait in all things. Mundane and comical occurrences can lead to insights profound and sublime.

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Dan Barth's poetry, fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications. He is the author of "Fast Women Beautiful: Zen Beat Baseball Poems," "Coyote Haiku" and "Ukiah Haiku: Journal of a Year." He is a contributing editor of "The Redwood Coast Review," an organizer and judge for the annual Ukiah Haiku Festival, and co-director of the monthly Writers Read series in Ukiah, CA. In March of 2012 he was named poet laureate of Ukiah for a two-year term. Dan was born and reared in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a graduate of Duke University. In addition to writing he does freelance editing, and works as a teacher and librarian at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage, CA. He lives near the Russian River in Mendocino County with his wife Mary.