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The Summer of Black Widows
Published by Hanging Loose Press
Publication date: 1996
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Awards
"Inside Dachau" - 1996/97 Florida International University Poetry Competition winner
"Capital Punishment" - selected for The Best American Poetry 1996

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Table of Contents
After The First Lightning
Airplane
Airplane, Airport, Airline, Air In The Bottom Of The Ninth
At The Trial Of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994
Bob's Coney Island
Capital Punishment
Death Of The Landlord
Defending Walt Whitman
Diabetes
Drum As Love, Fear, And Prayer
Elegies
The Exaggeration Of Despair
Father And Farther
Fire As Verb And Noun
The First And Last Ghost Dance Of Lester Fallsapart
Glossary Of A Powwow
Going To The Movies With Geronimo's Wife
Grand Entry
Grandmother, Porcupine, Traffic
Haibun
Harmful Jazz
How To Remodel The Interior Of A Catholic Church
How To Write The Great American Indian Novel
How We Learn To Say Mouth And Hand And Small Of Back
Inside Dachau
Introduction To Western Civilization
Last Will And Testament
The Lover Of Maps
Marriage
Mistranslation Of A Traditional Spokane Indian Song
The Museum Of Tolerance
Owl Dancing With Fred Astaire
The Powwow At The End Of The World
Prayer Animals
Reading Harvey Shapiro's Poetry While Standing In Line
The Sasquatch Poems
Sister Fire, Brother Smoke
Song Of Ourself
Sonnet: Tattoo Tears
The Summer Of Black Widows
That Place Where Ghosts Of Salmon Jump
Totems
Tourists
What We Notice, What We Miss
When I Was My Father I Sang Love Songs To My Son
Why We Play Basketball

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