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    Notes from the Cat House

    By Jack Ketchum

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    Collected here in one volume are more than sixty poems from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jack Ketchum.

    Included in this collection:
    JOHNNIE MACK BROWN
    HOBOE’S MEMOIR
    WHEN I AM A BOY
    ARTHUR
    KU
    KU TWO
    11/11/87
    ANNOUNCEMENT
    BEAST
    CONTACT
    CATS HIDE NOTHING
    SLEEPING WOMAN
    FIREFLIES
    HEARTS
    FOR CAITY
    CHRISTMAS DAY, 1969
    TO LANCE AND CATHY’S CHILD ON THE AFTERNOON OF HER BIRTH, JULY 9TH, 1970
    BILLY’S DAD
    BETHEL, NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1969
    A TERRIBLE THING
    WINGS
    MICHOU
    AN HONEST WORD
    DREAMS THE LUNA MOTH
    MONDO CANE
    ST. JOHN
    GREECE
    SWORD AND SANDAL
    CATS’ HAIKU FOR PAULA ON THE ROAD
    QUESTION
    SECOND VIRGIN
    REHEARSAL, MARAT/SADE, 1969
    POETIC
    TV GUIDE
    MATHEMATICS
    VINNI
    TRAGEDY
    THE TEACHER, 1969
    CRISIS
    FOR CUJO
    M.D.
    WALK
    BETHEL, NEW YORK , AUGUST 16, 1969
    JANIS
    A PROMISE
    MORNING STAR
    IMPERATIVES
    ON “THE GATES”, NYC
    CATSKILL MORNING OBSERVATION
    THE LETTER
    CLOCKING
    IMPERATIVES TWO
    NOTE
    FOR ABBIE HOFFMAN
    FOR JULIUS HOFFMAN
    KU YOU
    FOR K.
    RITUALS
    THAT MOMENT
    FOR PHILIP H. SCHREYER, 1924-2005
    OLD AGE
    SUICIDE NOTE #1
    EMPATHY

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossroad Press
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781311132390
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    Notes from the Cat House
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    Jack Ketchum

    Jack Ketchum has published twelve novels and several short story collections. He has won numerous Bram Stoker Awards, and four of his books were recently filmed as movies: The Lost (2001), The Girl Next Door (2005), Red (2008) and Offspring (2009). He lives in New York City.

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      Jack says a poet he is not. Jack is a liar.