IT'S OFFICIAL / ABRAHAM SMITH & YRS TRULY ARE EDITING AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY RURAL AMERICAN POETICS TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE ONE & ONLY LOST ROADS PRESS (2014) //
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COULDN'T BE MORE EXCITED! HICK POETICS!
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IN 2013, AMONG THE JUNKING DINS & SCHIZOPHRENIAS OF POST-POST-POST-MODERNITY, POETS SHELLY TAYLOR & ABRAHAM SMITH ARE ON THE HUNT FOR AMERICAN HINTERLAND POETS.
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EXCITED? OOOOOOOOOOOOO' YES I AM!
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your two fellow hick editors have found themselves especially drawn to our fellow OUT THERE poets, and wish to gather an anthology, a selection of sublime relatively recent poets from NOWHERE, USA.
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WE ARE CALLING ALL LATTER-DAY DOROTHY AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTHS ATTUNED TO RUMINATING SUCH QUESTIONS AS...
IF AMERICA IS, AS CHARLES OLSON REMINDS US, ALL SPACE, THEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A LOCAL OF THE HORIZON?
HOW DOES COMING FROM NOWHERE INFORM THE STUFF, THAT IS, THE SOMEWHERES OF YOUR POEMS.
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LIKE GRANNY SAYS: YOU CAIN'T NEVER GET BY WHERE YOU'RE FROM.
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YOU GOTTA HAVE A FIDDLE IN THE BAND YOU SEE / SAY A LITTLE PRAYER FOR ME.
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COMING TO YOU IN 2014 BY YRS TRULY HICKS ABE & MWAH
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YOU EXCITED TOO? WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? YES? OKAY! YES! X X X
