Undertow Overtures

From award winning author, actor, poet, Larry Crist, comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twenty years.

From the author:

I’m an only child. My parents were as well

Both lost their mothers early, their fathers too

I was raised on a goat farm in the California

wine country. I learned to read before kindergarten

That first year of school was okay

I’m sorry i didn’t go out for football in high school

I did a lot of drugs and spent a year in jail instead

I earned an MFA in theatre from Temple U.

as well as a useless BA at HSU, Humboldt County, California

I studied English & History, attended an acting academy

in my early 20s, and never graduated high school

I don’t have a tv. I have a cell phone, but can barely use it

My particular form of ADD prevents

me from reading directions. Whenever

i read something, telling me how to do something

i invariably focus on how bad the writing is

I love baseball. I ache for it and the kind of weather

it accompanies. I love tigers and cats and crows

I find cooking therapeutic and have always had a fear of

starving to death. I prefer pie to cake but have no taste

for either unless i smoke weed. I love to walk

especially around Green Lake when it is sunny

I would love to do this while walking a tiger. I would

probably have a beer, because no one is going to bother

you about drinking when you’re out walking a tiger

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

1 ~ Early atrocities

2 ~ Man about town

3 ~ Nature & natural crimes

4 ~ Literary quite contrary

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