Research Catalog

Title

The portable Potts / Charles Potts.

Author

Potts, Charles, 1943-

Publication

Albuquerque : West End Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

383 pages; 18 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2005

Alternative Title

Works. 2005

Contents

I dream of Oaxaca -- Para Olga -- The riot act -- Fu hexagram 24 -- Uproar and feedback -- Second coming of Joseph Smith -- Wild dog distinguished service cross -- The total eclipse of Ezra Pound -- The yellow Christ -- The decadent cages -- Rainbow rebozo -- Laffing water drops out -- The pancake church -- Shit crackers -- The streets of Paul Regret -- A valediction : forbidding Mormon -- The golden calf -- March wardrobe -- Why I live in Salt Lake City -- Too late -- The captain's wheel -- La Maudite Riviere Enragee -- The Flying Butterfinger Brothers have seen the last of me -- Knee deep in bleeding hearts -- The vicious Gothic circle -- The language exam -- Madness -- The Columbia River watch position paper -- Lina Wertmuller meets the son of Coyote -- Charlie Kiot -- A debt I owe to the tropics -- Sampson walks out -- A rite to the body -- Autumn in Alta -- The dictatorship of the environment -- Feast of the dead -- A marijuana poem -- The Vishnu shift -- For Edward -- Poetry and real estate -- The Bible, whiskey, and my gun -- A concert in the sun -- Mussolini Jones -- Thus spake Velikovsky -- Leon Trotsky's dues are refused by the Cascade chapter of the Washington Sierra Club -- Overamping in Walla Walla -- I play a lot of tennis -- The state of nature -- Natural language -- Natural responsibilities -- Donner beach party -- The Henry David Thoreau volunteer army -- Slow down, Columbia slow down -- Modus operandum -- Intro : Southern paranoid fascism -- Holy war : how war became the state religion -- First Texan : remember the Alamo! -- The gunbelt : DOD demographics -- The crooked boundaries of Idaho -- Starlight on the trail -- The Homestead Act -- Poetry on horseback -- Raspberry -- Steps my mother with some reluctance took -- Going blind -- The joyful lightness of Natalie -- Hide -- Back to Idaho -- Stinging nettles -- Eagle out -- The pass at Doublespring -- Pahsimeroi Eki -- The auction block -- Mom and dad -- Coming to terms -- The old pioneer cemetery -- Raspberry redux -- Angio gram -- Binary -- Easter surprise -- Misol-Ha - the Mayan waterfall -- Geezers in space -- The hot dog train -- The prolog -- When metaphors collide -- Homage to DeVoto -- How long is a dynasty and when do we get ours? -- Holy war -- The Tin Island speculation -- (K) Celtic triad -- Opportunities in disintegration -- Free lance Pheidippides on the disinclined plains of marathon -- Substantial and desire -- Facing the sea -- Perpendicular to the noodle -- Searching for Mitsuhiro -- If would -- The Xiang Jiang River bridge -- Beijing with cottonwoods and roses -- I wanted to end with a crescendo -- Mama Losen and Patri Spekt -- Drinking -- Afternoon with dog -- The hearth -- Wild horse -- Pierre, the dehydrated Frenchman -- The crooked and the wide -- An affront to the white pansy bed -- The synod of Borah -- Disney presents : the opium must go thru -- Mirador de Mille Cumbres or murder and Les Beaux arts -- Cold turkey -- Universal international Indian love cry -- Opus won -- The flute and recorder and woodwind missing link -- App. Books by Charles Potts -- App. Berkeley in 1968, literary influences, later development -- App. David Bromige on Valga Krusa -- App. One liners on Valga Krusa -- App. Works cited for How the South finally won the Civil War.

ISBN

0975348639

OCLC

• 61696753
• ocm61696753
• SCSB-5210246

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries