Fugitive

By Dennis Doherty

Subjects: Poetry
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781930337305, 59 pages, August 2010

Table of contents

Dog

After the Flood: Holiday Inn

Dogs of Disaster

Human Resource: El Nino

Design at Mahmoudiya

Ave

The Language of Men

PM

Serve Them Right

The Gauntlet

Tremble

Extremes

Serendipity

House of Crumbs

Student Life

Furnished Rooms

The Name

Sympathectomy

In the Times when My Daughters Bring Me Offerings

Sprites

Infinity Bread and Butter

For Gwen: Evel Knieval’s Grandmother’s Green Rice at the Third Grade States Fair

Santa’s Ghazal

Mookie Wilson Beats the Tag

The Writer Regards His Fingers

Mephistopheles at the Poets’ Support Group

Toward

When Do Poems Get Written

Proximity

Ballistics

Day Lily

Chin

Postmodern Metaphysical Love Poem Moves Beyond Mere Description of the Beloved

Fugitive

Joy Unremembered Most Real

Tattoo

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

She’s So Badass it Hurts

Flightscape

Description

"…At the crossroads of assault and proceed,
with the sweat dirty gum grease of law machines,
amid thrill and lull, faithless young gods
inured to guts swill black smoke; uniformed,
flag-fetishistic do-good recruits who
embrace for sanity's (checkpoint!) sake (checkpoint!)
the creed of pluck for country and pluck for self
and die in the smithy of old gods' desires…
The planned it. This, the goods your works produce. "
--Design at Mahmoudiya

Dennis Doherty is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program and Chair of the Poetry Board at SUNY New Paltz, NY, where his students are a river of intelligent perceptions, and his colleagues are a reference ready library of expertise and experience. His children, Cläire, Molly, and Gwendolyn, are a constant source of wonder; his wife, Shari, is a receiver of souls. He regards the sky, studies nature, and swaps stories with friends over beer in their hometown of Rosendale. Doherty's essays, poems, and stories appear throughout the literary press. He is author of The Bad Man, a volume of poetry.