Harm’s Way

Poems

Eric Leigh

Publication Year: 2010

“The past is a flame you must learn to hold / your hand above,” Eric Leigh writes in this first volume of poems, a poignant meditation on the harm that we can and cannot keep from those we love, and the harm that cannot be kept from us. Taking place in both the rural and the urban, in fields and on sidewalks, in gay bars and in laboratories, with topics as diverse and powerful as a father's suicide, a mother's resilience, coming out, lost love and the continuing plight of HIV, Leigh’s poems locate the heartbreaking music in these struggles.

Published by: University of Arkansas Press

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

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ACKNOWLEDGME N T S

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pp. 8-9

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of those publications in which the following poems originally appeared, sometimes in earlier versions....

C O N T E N T S

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I.

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Homesong

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Skilled Trades

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My Mother Reads Tobacco Road

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Last of the Midnight Lullabies

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Juleps

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Bystander Effect

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Life in the Rearview Mirror

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On the Day the Last Drag Queen Leaves Town

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The Controlled Burn of Carolina Dirt

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Country Letter

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On the Line

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Oh, Loretta

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The Last Remains of the Country Heart

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Gun Country

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The Dark-Light of Spring

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II.

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Bel Canto for Beginners

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Hymn

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Catching a Stranger’s Eye during theChanging of the Guard

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Origami Heart

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Loving the Haberdasher

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Letter, January

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At The Rhinestone Bullet

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At This Late Hour

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Understory

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Earthquake Weather

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Notes on Drowning

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Assisted Living

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pp. 48-49

For Those Who Cannot Make the Journey

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Color Theory

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Results

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Harm’s Way

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pp. 53-54

Watching the Virus Attack a Cell

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pp. 55-56

Sickness & Health

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pp. 57-59

NOTES

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E-ISBN-13: 9781610751773
E-ISBN-10: 1610751779
Print-ISBN-13: 9781557289308
Print-ISBN-10: 1557289301

Page Count: 60
Publication Year: 2010

Research Areas

Creative Writing > Poetry

Subject Headings

Poetry.

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