{"product_id":"along-the-kaw-1968-1978-by-the-rivers-of-edo-vol-i-paperback","title":"Along the Kaw, 1968-1978: By the Rivers of Edo, vol. I - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWayne Pounds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronologically, these poems begin in my graduate school years, which started in 1967. The next year I went to the Vietnam war, came back in 1970, finishing in 1976. I took my first full-time teaching job in Algeria, found it not to my satisfaction, finishing my \"year abroad\" in Spain. In the Fall of 1977, I came back to KU and got a part-time post to hold me over until I could find another full-time position, this time in Japan. From Algeria, I brought back a long poem called \"Constantine Journal\" which later was on my website for some years. I've taken it down and print it here for the first time. By 1968, when I was twenty-two years old, I had begun to take to heart Rimbaud's drunken-boat instruction that the poet must derange his mind. It was time for me to begin, though I had no idea of beginning anything. It was all desperation. So many things had gone wrong and continued wrong. I was a miserable worm and believed I was damned. I couldn't get the story of love to go right. I took thorazine. I saw a psychologist once a week. I was in a state of depression, and the only dependable medication I found for it was alcohol. Thus, \"Kaw fished the innumerable river.\" The poems reflect none of the good times that were part of graduate-school life.This is largely deliberate, for I believed then that poetry was a way of dealing with misery, and that happiness did not call for expression in verse. I even thought that melancholy was the more important emotion. After all, darkness identified and defined me, whereas sunshine did not. In long retrospect, I would now call the melancholy reflected in my verse of this period the struggles of a much delayed adolescence. I was Esau. I'd \"sold my birthright \/ for this mess of learning.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWayne Pounds, perpetrator of five chapbooks of poetry, three books of family history, and a stack of academic essays, was born in Oklahoma and grew up there and in northern California. He began his career as a poet in the 7th grade imitating Ogden Nash and his graduate career in the jungles of Vietnam keeping a low profile. PhDeed at the University of Kansas, 1976. Spends his best hours trying to keep up with his daughter, now a teenager. The books he is willing to own may be found at Amazon.com. For work in progress, see his blogs such as http: \/\/www.ueno-wayne.org\/ and http: \/\/nonforgotten.blogspot.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51794839109920,"sku":"9781986079969","price":10.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/14000ac88d6e7b421f4b6e78c8ac533a.webp?v=1780735409","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/along-the-kaw-1968-1978-by-the-rivers-of-edo-vol-i-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}