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Wayne Pounds

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Wayne Pounds, besides having published a stack of academic essays and monographs, is the perpetrator of five chapbooks of poetry, four books of family history, and a collection of documented narratives about early-day killings in Oklahoma. He was born in Oklahoma and grew up there and in northern California. He began his career as a poet in the 7th grade imitating Ogden Nash and his graduate career in the jungles of Vietnam keeping a low profile. PhDeed at the University of Kansas, 1976. Lived and taught in Japan thirty years, now retired. The attraction of his books may be that he sees American matters from Japan. The books he is willing to own may be found at Amazon.com with this link: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/ent... ...more

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The Lonesome Death of Billi...

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North of Deep Fork: An Okla...

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I have two videos on youtube that feature me reading a poem. Here's the first, reading a poem called "The Wisdom of Monju" about the tsunami-nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMlr...
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I went back to my room and opened Herbert N. Schneidau's Sacred Discontent: The Bible and Western Tradition (Louisiana State UP, 1973) and perused again the 15 pages of his bibliography. Beginning in the late 70s, I spent ten years o
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Louise Bogan
“Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom
and wherever deserved.

Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless
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