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title	:	Lost Country
author	:	Howell, Dan.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870238507
print isbn13	:	9780870238505
ebook isbn13	:	9780585314242
language	:	English
subject	Poems, Poetry--selections.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PS3558.O8978L67 1993eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	Poems, Poetry--selections.

Page iii Lost Country Dan Howell

Page iv Copyright 1993 by Dan Howell All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-20045 ISBN 0-87023-850-7 (cloth); 851-5 (paper) Designed by Milenda Nan Ok Lee Set in Adobe Garamond by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Howell, Dan, 1947 Lost country / by Dan Howell. p. cm. ISBN 0-87023-850-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-851-5 (paper : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3558.08978L67 1993 811'.54dc20 93-20045 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

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Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank the editors of the publications in which some of the poems in this book first appeared: Audit, an earlier version of "Whatever It Gives"; The Environment: Essence and Issues (Pig Iron 18, Pig Iron Press), "American Chameleon" and "The Creaturely''; The Missouri Review, "I'm Not Confessing Anything" and "The 4A Shuffle" (as "The 4A Shuffle"); Prairie Schooner (by permission of the University of Nebraska Press, 1985 University of Nebraska Press), "Denizens" and "Last Break"; Shankpainter, "Kinds of Bodysurfing" and "Leisure World Safeway at Night." I'm also grateful to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown for providing the time and space and support that helped me finish this book.

Page ix CONTENTS I. A Sighting I'm Not Confessing Anything 3 The 4A Shuffle 5 II. A Landing The Take-Off 37 For Susan 38 The Oncoming 40 Whatever It Gives 42 Denizens 44 Last Break 46 Unsettling the Farm 47 Grace 49 The Creaturely 50 Justice 53 Leisure World Safeway at Night 55 American Chameleon 57 III. A Romance Wake of the Undiscovered 63 IV. A Covenant Walking for Points 73 Kinds of Bodysurfing 75 Modern Life in Louisiana 76 On Earth, as It Is 78

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Page 3 I'm Not Confessing Anything "Howell, I'm not here to punish you. Life will do that. Life will punish you enough." Captain Roberto Cuesta I was insane and a criminal in 1970, or at least the Army or rather its doctors labeled me very even psychoticallydepressed (although Dr. Cuesta never fell for that really, remaining skeptical, always smart and reliably humane despite overwork and a hatred of "hippies, Communists, and Socialists," and losing a fat annual practice in Havana, in a country also lost, no longer his), which is exactly what I wanted the Army to think. To be judged very sick was best after being AWOL for 15 months (including pursuit by the FBIroutine leg-work, half-hearted, but the agents did manage to come close, to locate my scattered friends and hassle my family, including my mother, who lived alone) and then surrendering myself at Fort Knox, dreading the stockade and consequently that evening letting out tears, sobs in front of a clerk who was hoping to pry out some AWOL detailswho harbored me, e.g.but succeeded only in being a gullible audience, my fortunate sadness extorting a trip to 4A, the Psychoneurotic Ward (at last!). By the Seconal-hazy, placid end of that night, after I stripped and was given blue pajamas and a box

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