Undertow Overtures

From award winning author, actor, poet, Larry Crist, comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twenty years.

From the author: I m an only child. My parents were as well Both lost their mothers early, their fathers too I was raised on a goat farm in the California wine country. I learned to read before kindergarten That first year of school was okay I m sorry i didn t go out for football in high school I did a lot of drugs and spent a year in jail instead I earned an MFA in theatre from Temple U. as well as a useless BA at HSU, Humboldt County, California I studied English & History, attended an acting academy in my early 20s, and never graduated high school I don t have a tv. I have a cell phone, but can barely use it My particular form of ADD prevents me from reading directions. Whenever i read something, telling me how to do something i invariably focus on how bad the writing is I love baseball. I ache for it and the kind of weather it accompanies. I love tigers and cats and crows I find cooking therapeutic and have always had a fear of starving to death. I prefer pie to cake but have no taste for either unless i smoke weed. I love to walk especially around Green Lake when it is sunny I would love to do this while walking a tiger. I would probably have a beer, because no one is going to bother you about drinking when you re out walking a tiger

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

1 Early atrocities

2 Man about town

3 Nature & natural crimes

4 Literary quite contrary

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