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William Witherup (Author)

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December 31, 2000

Author of six volumes of poetry, William Witherup claims literary descent from a long lineage of western voices, among them William Everson, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. His poems are exceptionally rich and varied in subject matter. In work poems, nature poems, poems of love and loss, and political comment and satire, the voice is distinctive--that of a man who has come through and has welded the beauty and pain of the world to his writings.

In addition to the poems presented in Down Wind, Down River, this volume includes work from Black Ash, Orange Fire: Collected Poems 1959-85; Men at Work(1989); and translations of Enrique Lihn, Antonio Machado, and Vicente Huidobro.


"Skeptical of civilization, disgusted with its discontents, in him the reformist vein in West Coast writing finds outlet through an occasional tirade against polluters of every stripe, but that is not his strength. His strength is the impulse that moves his shyness to find its voice in understatement, the art that leaves implication suspended until its images explode in depth."--William Everson


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The Baker Of Pies
Chama
Charlie Parker, 1989
Coast Live Oak
Coda
Columbia River Suite: Across From Celilo Falls
Columbia River Suite: The Glacier
Columbia River Suite: The Great White Father
Columbia River Suite: The Salmon Festival
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Crows
A Day Of Scattered Rain
Death Is Behind Us
Depression
Dog Dying
Down Wind, Down River
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Drunk In Pecos
Egret: Bolinas Lagoon, 1986
Envoi: Manic Depression In The Rear-view Mirror
A Fable
Five Fractured Preludes For Blue Bear
For A Lady Who Loves Schubert
For A Still-born Niece
For Mumia Abu-jamal: On Pennsylvania's Death Row
For The Alders Again
Freeway
From The Bed And Breakfast Basement
Frost
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Going Up For The Mail
Hornet's Nest
How The Jilted Lover Spends His Time
Hybrid Villanelle On A Line By Li Po
In A Country Of Warehouses
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John Wayne, Gunslinger, R.i.p.
Late Spring, After The Gulf War
Living By I-5, August 6, 1995
A Man's Life
Marian At Tassajara Springs
Marian/'chama' In Three Mountain Ranges
Mervyn Clyde Witherup (b. July 14, 1910 - D. May 12, 1988)
Messages From A Zuni Fetish
Milling Redwood Up Vicente Creek
Mojave
Moonwatching And Steelhead
Motorcycle Moon
My Father Dying: 1984
My Grandson At Green Lake
Nagasaki Journal: August 9, 1945
Night: Soberanes Point
Not-so-still-life
Nuke City Ballad
October In Appalachio
On A Dead Swallow
On Campus In Kentucky
On The Death Of Theodore Roethke
Once By Hanford Reach
Our President Reads A Book -- Not Louis L'amour
Portola Cannery Poem
Portrait Of S.b., With A Steel Wing
Prayer For A Young Gray Fox
Reading High School Poems In Hindman, Kentucky
Rito
Robert Bly At Point Lobos
Root Hog Or Die
A Rufous: Tomales, 1986
Saida
Salmon Speaks
The Scientific-technological Paradigm
Shawhan, Kentucky: Winter 1978
Sir, If You Are, Sir
Siren - Woman And Bird
Snow White
Sobaka In The Underworld
The Soledad Poems: Upstairs In The Education Wing
The Soledad Poems: Elegy For George Jackson
The Soledad Poems: Road To The Yellow Prison
The Soledad Prison Poems: Driving To Class
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Something Wakes You
Sphinx Moth
Still (active) Life With Plum Tree, Man, And Dog
Thinking About Suicide
Three Perspectives Of San Francisco: From Alcatraz
Three Perspectives Of San Francisco: From Oakland
Three Perspectives Of San Francisco: From Sausalito
To A Salesgirl In Juarez
To Bixby Creek Again, And To You, Raccoon
To The President Of The Company
To Workman's Comp
Two For Sophie Dog: 1. For Painter/poet Alan Chong Lau
Two For Sophie Dog: 2. For My Sister, Sandra Hankins
Two From Rancho Cieneguilla: Morning
Two From Rancho Cieneguilla: Night
Two From The Monterey Hotel: 1. Let's Raise A Glass Of Port To The Old
Two From The Monterey Hotel: 2. Portrait Of A Desk Clerk
Variations On An Image By W. C. Williams
Walking Nonseq In New Snow
Water Striders On Paper Mill Creek
We Were Each Alone
Western Kentucky Farmer
When The Computers Have Crashed
Winter Darkness
Working Class Haiku
Written At Michael Good, Fine Books
Yucca
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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“Skeptical of civilization, disgusted with its discontents, in him the reformist vein in West Coast writing finds outlet through an occasional tirade against polluters of every stripe, but that is not his strength. His strength is the impulse that moves his shyness to find its voice in understatement, the art that leaves implication suspended until its images explode in depth.”--William Everson

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