Where We Live

Makuck, Peter

ISBN 10: 091852640X / ISBN 13: 9780918526403

Published by Boa, 1982

About this Item

Hardcover/No jacket / Fordeword by Louis Simpson / Signed on back page by Makuck & Simpson.

Seller Inventory # 33090

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where We Live
• Publisher: Boa
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 091852640X
• ISBN 13: 9780918526403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1sr.
• Condition: VG
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Nights

Next door, he climbs under
A jacked-up Chevy with a droplight.

His girl rags off
The silver tools before passing them under.

Tire-scream and glasspack-rumble.
The concerto in my room goes weak.

But when they quit
It's a black quiet.

I lie down and my mind gets up
In its sleep.

At my kitchen table
He leans over a blank page --

Cut hands and cracked nails
Rimmed with slim moons of dirt.

He is mocking
Up a list of my loves:

The click of well-seated valves,
A good rock beat for the drags,
A girl beside me,
The beautiful poor white girl
Who will litter me kids,
Adjust the light, shadows for make-up.


© BOA Editions, Ltd 1982

About the Author

Founder of Tar River Poetry and editor for 30 years, Peter Makuck taught at East Carolina University from 1976 to 2006. His stories, poems, reviews and essays appear in Poetry, The Nation, Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Georgia Review. He is author of four volumes of poetry, two short story collections, and co-edited a book of essays.