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Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots in the Mid-West and a few pages later stops off in Transylvania. These poems like to sometimes embrace and sometimes confound expectations, and they all stand together as enemies of the murky and pompous. There is apparently no subject—Prometheus, a fifty foot woman, or Death himself—that is unwilling to fall under his spell.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
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  1. I
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  1. Please Provide a Brief Biographical Sketch
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  1. Fright Night
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  1. Snowman
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  1. The Wolf's Dilemma
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  1. Dear Reader,
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  1. I Love Lucy
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  1. Orpheus after Eurydice
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  1. In the Folk Art Wing
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  1. Reading at the Christian Academy
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  1. True Account of Talking to the Breeze in South Pasadena
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  1. Sing, Goddess
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  1. Smitten
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  1. Room 303
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  1. The Pillow Book and How It Applies to Hillhurst Avenue in West Hollywood
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  1. II
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  1. Yellow Moving Van
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  1. At the Esso Station in Olney
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  1. Two Transylvanian Girls
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  1. Walk
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  1. The Ultra-Modern Prometheus
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  1. Thanks for Coming In
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  1. Church Camp
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  1. Two Weeks with Pay
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  1. Coyote
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  1. Song of Myselfie
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  1. How to Get There
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  1. Whispering Pines
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  1. Artemis and Actaeon
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  1. Cat Women of the Moon
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  1. III
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  1. I Married a Monster from Outer Space
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  1. Now Finally
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  1. Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
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  1. Nevada
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  1. Dear Citizen,
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  1. Reading to the Bland
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  1. The Sinful Woman
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  1. The Associate Dean
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  1. A Cast-Iron Boy
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  1. Yearling Sale
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  1. VFW Welcomes State Champions
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  1. Life on the Farm
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  1. Cassandra Works the Midnight Shift Disguised as a Teenage Boy
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  1. Lovesick Girls in Prison
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  1. Swine
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  1. IV
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  1. Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman
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  1. Ode to Joy
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  1. Men in Their Good Shoes Shooting Hoops
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  1. Sirens
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  1. Death Hands Me the Scythe
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  1. The Other Annunciation
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  1. Sun City
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  1. Courtly Love in the Twenty-First Century
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  1. A Surprise Visit
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  1. Jack and the Beanstalk
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  1. After the Funeral
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  1. Mattress Palace
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  1. Acknowledgments
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