Begging For Vultures: New And Selected Poems, 1994-2009 (mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

Synopsis

The Poetry Of Lawrence Welsh Crosses Many Borders, From South Central Los Angeles, Where He Was Raised, To El Paso, Where He Has Lived For Almost Twenty Years. A Newspaper Man Turned Poet, A Punk Rock Songwriter Who Became An English Teacher, An Irishman At Home In Texas, Welsh Gives Voice To The Famous, The Infamous, And The Forgotten. -- Back Cover. New Poems. New Corn Dance -- El Paso Poem -- Ramon's -- Dead Coyote -- Beyond Bosque -- To The Stone Hunters -- For Hart Crane -- Coyote At Fabens -- Before Mesa -- The Buffalo Figurine -- Old Crow -- Yandell's Room -- Barry Mills -- Leaves -- Cuchillo -- Easter -- Raven/taos -- East Of Albuquerque -- Juarez-again -- La Feria -- Eastside's Calvario -- Coal Trane -- Gersh Driver -- A Bosque Hanging -- Preparing For Maximus -- Gambler's Blend -- Gambler's Guitar -- Outing Vegas -- Larks -- '48 Plymouth -- 1959 -- When The Pogues Came To Town -- South Central Serenade -- Angel Dust -- East Hollywood Hotdog Stand -- One For Prez -- Blue's Beach -- The Kind Of Mountain Soul -- St. Mullin's -- Feed The Messenger As Well -- For Longshot O'leary -- After The Great Hunger -- New Irish Whiskey -- The Death Of Coolaholiga -- Coolaholiga Rising -- Begging For Vultures -- The Birds Are Flying Over -- From Skull Highway (2008). New Medicine Stick -- Adobe -- Fallen Ladders -- Paper Lantern --^ Gone Rattler -- Swift Horse : A Blessing -- Norton Flats -- Milagros -- Skull Highway -- The Eve -- Reverb Machines -- The Dancing Stranglers -- New Year's Eve, 1978 -- Culver's End -- Troubadour West -- Kiva Bones -- Penitente Morada De Taos -- A Light -- For Robert Peters -- The Crucifix Upstairs -- Abandoned Morada, 1990 -- In The Desert Dead Things To Away Quickly -- From Walking Backwards To Santa Fe (2007). Anniversary Of Another Life On The 15th Anniversary Of My Father's Death -- Hickory Wind -- The Shadows Of St. Francis -- Mine Tours -- The Elbo Room/gaudalupe -- El Pantalon Rosa -- Elegy For John Wieners -- Been Sleeping In The Desert -- Lost In San Elizario -- Westwood Walk -- J. Geils In Inglewood -- Bunny Berrigan Loses His Chops -- Santa Fe: 2001 -- Montez De Santa Fe -- For My Daughter -- Letting Go -- From Believing In Bonfires (2003). Butterfly Girl -- El Paso Saddleblanket Company -- Memo To Kell -- Corner -- Bowen's -- Desert Rats -- New Irish Harmonica --^ The Doolin Drag -- First Mescaline: Inglewood -- South Central Serenada: 7 -- When We Were Kings -- Quarter Moon Quartet -- Wolf And Skull -- Playland -- Dawn -- Mexican Canyon Trestle -- Fyling Burrito #1 -- Believing In Bonfires -- From New Shouts At Broken Dreams (2001). Mr. Mileage -- Sweet Medicine -- Desert Coyote -- The Queen Of Odessa -- La Calavera -- From A Buick 6 -- Revisited -- Nowhere Train -- Cockfighter -- Fading The White Line -- Juarez Wild Card -- Myth -- The Final Night -- Stalled Avenue -- Dealer's Choice -- The Balinese -- Surf '96 -- Encinitas -- Newport Line -- From Rusted Steel And Bordertown Starts (1999). Airstream -- El Paso The Hard Way -- Back Door Poets -- Desert Variation -- When Zz Came To Town -- Drover -- Peasant Hands Everywhere -- Maybe -- Gasoline Row -- Ghost Of El Paso -- Outside Gallup -- Crazy Horse -- Border Patrols -- Candy -- E.p.t. -- Gold On The Wire -- The Canonization Of Freddy Fender -- Sleepwalkers --^ On The Death Of Townes Van Zandt -- Fast Eddie -- Greatest Hits: Ray Price And His Cherokee Cowboys -- Night Of The Iguana -- Two Step The Night -- Fuels -- The Salsa Of Today -- The Red Road -- Rusted Steel And Bordertown Starts -- From Lenny Bruce In El Paso (1997). Outlaw X -- Road Dogs -- Ink -- Lenny Bruce In El Paso -- Lefty And Me -- The Girls Of The Wrecking Yard -- The Ghosts Of San Juan. Lawrence Welsh ; Foreword By V.b. Price.