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    Upper Level Disturbances
    Upper Level Disturbances
    Upper Level Disturbances
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    Upper Level Disturbances

    By Kevin Goodan

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    Mountain West Poetry Series
    Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
    Release dateJun 15, 2012
    ISBN9781885635266
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      Book preview

      Upper Level Disturbances - Kevin Goodan

      UPPER LEVEL

      DISTURBANCES

      The Mountain West Poetry Series

      Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell, series editors

      We Are Starved, by Joshua Kryah

      The City She Was, by Carmen Giménez Smith

      Upper Level Disturbances, by Kevin Goodan

      UPPER LEVEL

      DISTURBANCES

      POEMS

      KEVIN GOODAN

      The Center for Literary Publishing

      Colorado State University

      Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Goodan.

      All rights reserved.

      For information about permission to reproduce

      selections from this book, write to

      Permissions, Center for Literary Publishing,

      9105 Campus Delivery, Department of English,

      Colorado State University,

      Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-9105.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Goodan, Kevin, 1969-

      Upper level disturbances : poems / Kevin Goodan.

      p. cm. -- (The Mountain West poetry series)

      ISBN 978-1-885635-20-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) --

      ISBN 978-1-885635-26-6 (electronic)

      I. Title.

      ps3607.o563u77 2012

      811’.6--dc23

      2012011714

      The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the

      American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper

      for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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      Publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

      To my son, Levi Joseph Goodan—that he might know, and go on.

      CONTENTS

      Come Take These Words from Me

      A Sigh for Avila

      What Indices Have Blurred Me

      Showings

      We Pass and They Pass and Slow the World Abides

      August Singularity

      Looking for My Father: Christopher Smart, John Clare

      Recovery

      Out of Brightness Hailstones, Coals of Fire

      Thus I Am Called, Thresher to the Fields

      Touching Home

      Remembering the Family Homestead, Which Is Now an Industrial Park

      How the Soil Dampens for the Loss of Thee

      Untitled

      She Called Your Name Over

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