resolve 35

rub

ribs right

(street) side “less

symbolic, order

(ly)”

situate join’d

next “tap

it” foot

left tape

(tape’d) glass

broken step’d grass

high place’d

4x6 feet

“apart and front tire”

per, Mark Young's,  'beings punctual'

resolve 34

(the

spectator) reach

“had, seem too”

handle bar

swing (ing) “beat,

beaten” derivative

(ly)

walking dirt

(other) street

to

button (light) change

“blinks, blinking”

arm elbow

in (up)

move (ing)

resolve 33

“will be next”

turn turn

or

turned “what?”

chair leg

attached unconscious

what

(no) step

sidewalk dirt

(glass) Smirnoff broken

up

tire grass

(april) tires

truck around

(track dug)

crows eucalyptus

resolve 32

“I’ll

arrest you

on a 158”

question within

(right)

badge neck

card window

rows round

it hand’t

face

face

face (twirl

on foot to

foot)

bugs “that kind

of person”

resolve 31

“eat the bug”

dragging

(foots)

“you’re

the kind

of person”

window knock knock

vacant

(dismiss) “gives us

all bad”

license plate

SF432L “names

and” bug up

(up)

resolve 30

lean

pile (tent)

inner reach “up”

smooth concrete

(waste)

pattern’d vacant

around “us”

looks

behind “different,

mirrored”

incoherent (uncertain)

round’t (slide) crossed

hand

“another, another face”

across

face (less)

resolve 29

also

(page) initiation

(rite) locked manage

“pulled into,

within”

approach foot

foot to

site to

building

“with all of

its settings”

room (open)

locking

inches wall

lean against’t

finger up

resolve 28

“unfinish, firm”

touch rubbed

across

(it)

helicopter hang

(ing)

two smells

burning cattle

flesh (roof top)

over ‘ficial “since

I don’t

really know”

square

box’d set

(over) ‘tent

wiping away 

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PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008
Poems by Mark Young
Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-5-3

Price: $24.00
Release Date: Summer 2008
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of PELICAN DREAMING: Poems
1959-2008 by Mark Young, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink.

Mark Young was born in New Zealand, but has lived for more than half his life in
Australia. First published in 1959, his work has appeared in a large number of both 
lectronic & print journals, & he has been included in many anthologies. His publications
ange from the first book on modern New Zealand painting through more than a dozen
collections of poetry & his co-editorship with Jean Vengua of two anthologies of
hay(na)ku to a speculative novella, the allegrezza ficcione. These days he spends most of
his time editing the e-zine Otoliths & nurturing the steadily-increasing catalog of its print
publishing arm. 


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special discounted release arrangement good through August 31, 2008. You may order
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hks