Outtakes

"Posterity""One tries, like a new jacket, one's absence on for size.Always a tad snug, One never finds, somehow, the proper fit, a 42 Regular.""And who will remember us when our days are short-armed? And who will remember usin our ill-fitting duds, Parked, in the back seat of the car, by the black river?"Charles Wright, the author of twenty-six books, has won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, among others.Eric Appleby is the co-founder and designer of "Forklift, Ohio."

Table of Contents:
Posterity Together Mondo Aprile In the Beginning Was the Word, in the End Was the Word Under a Non-Sheltering Sky Star Riders That Was the Year We Went to Ponza, I Think No Organ, No Smells, No Bells Weather Report II If You Walk in His Golden Footsteps, the God Will Get You I Know It Sounds Strange, but It Sounds Right to Me Autumn Thoughts, on the Night of Strand's Book Party in New York City Who Said the Chinese Didn't Know What They Were Talking About? Lessons from Long Ago If Life Is a Negative, We Are Its Photographers Same Song, Second Verse Who Knows What Lurks in the Hearts of Men If I'm Here, Who's That out There? The Secret of What's Happening Looking out the West-Facing Window The Light at the Root of All Things "Send not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Thee" I'll Plant my Feet on Higher Ground Sky Guy Little Prayer Hemlock Circumference Is Only the Half of It Down in the Mines Baritone Bone Al Di La del Cielo The Night Will Be Dark and Cold the Ground Incommunicado Well, the Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird All Change Is Good, All Change Is Bad Well, I Still Have my Teeth, and That's not Nothing

About the Author :
Charles Wright: Charles Wright was born in 1935 in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee, and grew up in Tennessee and North Carolina. He attended Davidson College, The University of Iowa, and the University of Rome. From 1957 to 1961 he was in the Army Intelligence Service, stationed for most of this time in Verona, Italy. In 1963-65 he was a Fulbright student in Rome, translating the poems of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Cesare Pavese. In 1968-69 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Padua. From 1966-1983 he was a member of the English Department of the University of California, Irvine. Since 1983, he has been a Professor of English (since 1988, Souder Family Professor of English) at the University of Virginia. He has taught, in a visiting capacity, at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, and Columbia University, as well as being Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universit Degli Studi, Florence, Italy, spring 1992. Eric Appleby: Eric Appleby is the co-founder, publisher, and designer of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety-now in its 16th year without a lost time accident. He also serves as webmaster for H_NGM_N, and most recently designed Dean Young's 31 Poems (Forklift, Ink.), which was named one of the Best Physical Artifacts of 2009 by Coldfront. A graduate of Ball State University and The Design School of Hard Knocks, he is employed by a flooring distributor in a position he describes as "Computer Whisperer and Marketing Hack." He lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Tricia, and American Bulldog, Knuckles.